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Or, NXT? NXT is a U.S. oil and natural gas exploration company based in Calgary, Alberta, with exploration operations in the U.S. and Canada. The company utilizes its SFD technology as a wide-area exploration tool to prospect for high impact oil and gas accumulations. NXT's SFD technology is a unique, low‑cost, airborne system that is used to identify subsurface structures, such as faults, fractures, salt collapse and over-pressured reservoirs with considerable accuracy. The primary component of the SFD is a proprietary passive transducer that responds to energy associated with subsurface stress. The SFD technology enables NXT to acquire, process and evaluate data for large areas in minimal time. The speed and low cost of the SFD technology provides NXT with a significant competitive advantage in developing prospects and evaluating potential acquisitions. In other operational developments the 11-18-25-27w4 well at Dalroy east of Calgary that was drilled and completed in March 2003 will be tied into the gas gathering system in July. The initial production test of this first well (Belly River group, 870ft) reported average gas flow rates of 600 thousand cubic feet per day. NXT has a 22.5% working interest in this prospect.

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The Belly River and Edmonton groups each exhibit a similar kind of stratigraphic architecture with a hierarchy of sequences and sub-sequences that provides evidence for changes in (1) regional tectonism, (2) relative sea level, and (3) climate. Both units are strongly non-marine and, thus, “cryptic” sequence-boundaries are present in both. Cryptic sequence-boundaries are typically identified by stratigraphic changes in channel stacking, paleocurrent data, coarse-fine sediment ratios, paleosol and/or organic facies development, and taphofacies of vertebrate and other fossils. Belly River Group: In the Plains of southern Alberta the Belly River Group (a.k.a. the Judith River Group) consists of three formations: in ascending order, Foremost, Oldman and Dinosaur Park. Each exhibits a characteristic geometry, petrography, and lithostratigraphy. Figures 1 & 2 are regional-scale dip- and strike-oriented cross-sectional schematics, respectively, that show the distribution and preservational geometries of these formations. The Foremost reflects a major phase of basinward progradation for the Belly River Group. Its lower one-half consists of coarsening-upward parasequences (Hamblin and Abrahamson, 1996; Gordon, 2001) that inter-finger with the Pakowki (Claggett) Fm. The stacking patterns of these parasequences vary from strongly progradational to vertically-aggraded reflecting complex relationships through time between sediment supply and accommodation. A prominent basinward shift in facies marks the Ribstone Creek parasequence and its underlying sequence boundary. The Taber coal zone represents a province-wide (west-east) emplacement of a high water table and swampy, low-gradient conditions and thus, is best interpreted as a middle to late Transgressive 75thAnniversary of CSPG Convention, June 3-7, 2002 Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists

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2 Systems Tract (TST). Historically, the Oldman-Foremost contact has been placed at the top of the Taber coal zone, however, there is a prominent province-wide zone of amalgamated paleochannels (Herronton sandstone zone) that overlies the coal zone and is better included, for compositional reasons, in the Foremost. The Herronton sandstone zone is a stratigraphic interval of low accommodation, most likely representing a late Highstand Systems Tract (HST). The transition to the overlying Oldman is easily recognized in well logs by a strong and sometimes multi-cyclic increase in gamma response (most probably caused by an increase in potassium-rich feldspars), and in outcrop by a notable absence of coals and much lighter sediment colors that reflect the more mature composition of the sediments. The Oldman is exclusively alluvial in Alberta and records the maximum basinward extent of Belly River Group clastics. It consists of upward-fining paleochannel sandstones and a variety of fine members that represent channel top, channel margin and heavily rooted overbank paleoenvironments. The Oldman is subdivided into three informal stratigraphic units based on paleochannel geometry and stacking patterns. The lower and upper units display lenticular paleochannel geometries and represent zones of moderate accommodation. The middle unit (Comrey sandstone zone) consists of decameter-thick, amalgamated sandstone bodies with sheet-like to lenticular geometries. The Comrey reflects a low accommodation setting and appears to be underlain by a cryptic sequence-boundary. In this context the fill can be regarded as having been deposited in an early TST. Evidence for tidal features in the upper Comrey succession (Troke, 1993; Hills, this session) suggest a marine influence, increasing accommodation, and thus, deposition in an early or middle TST (cf. Shanley and McCabe, 1994). Above the Comrey, in the upper unit of the Oldman, paleochannels are well-separated and there is a sub-equal paleochannel-overbank ratio indicating greater accommodation that is characteristic of a middle-to-late TST. Along west-east dip sections (Fig. 1) the Oldman is essentially tabular and flat-based, whereas it thickens considerably to the southwest (Fig. 2), indicating northwestern Montana as the unit’s primary source area. This source designation is also supported by paleocurrent data (Eberth and Hamblin, 1993). The contact between the Oldman and Dinosaur Park formations is strongly diachronous from north to south (Fig. 2) and records the southeastward progradation of the Dinosaur Park Formation clastic wedge during the rapid transgression of the Bearpaw Sea. The Dinosaur Park overlies the Oldman gradationally-to-erosionally and consists of a lower, sandy alluvial zone and an upper muddy and coaly succession (Lethbridge coal zone). The lower sandy zone is dominated by multimeter-thick paleochannel deposits with extraformational pebbles, immature sandstones, and muddy, inclined-heterolithic-strata (IHS). Although there is little evidence for tidally-influenced paleoenvironments at the base of the formation, the top of the formation hosts mud-filled incised valleys that have been interpreted as tidally-influenced 75thAnniversary of CSPG Convention, June 3-7, 2002 Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists

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