12:40 PM EST - Strata-X Energy Ltd. : Has received notice from the drilling contractor, Webster Drilling, that they have begun drilling the Kuhlig #1 well, the second well in the Company's Lingle Oil Project in the Illinois Basin. The Kuhlig #1 vertical well is a 12 km step-out of the first completed Lingle horizontal well, Burkett 5-34, where peak production rates of 300 barrels of oil per day were achieved. It is anticipated the Kuhlig #1 drilling operations will be completed within ten days including the retrieval of a 60' core and pressure test of the targeted Lingle formation. Strata-X Energy Ltd.
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