BPI Energy Production Reaches New High.Company Provides New Production Profile CLEVELAND -- BPI Energy BPI Energy Holdings Inc. (AMEX: BPG) is an independent energy company based in Solon, Ohio, U.S.A. The company is engaged in the exploration, production and commercial sale of coalbed methane (CBM) in the Illinois Basin, covering over Holdings, Inc. (Amex: BPG BPG Blocks Per Game (basketball statistic) BPG Bisphosphoglycerate BPG Bi-National Planning Group (NORADHQ) BPG Belgian Polymer Group BPG Binational Planning Group ), an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, production and commercial sale of coalbed methane Coalbed methane is a form of natural gas extracted from coal beds. In recent decades it has become an important source of energy in United States, Canada, and other countries. (CBM CBM Commodore Business Machines CBM Coalbed Methane CBM Christoffel Blindenmission CBM Condition Based Maintenance CBM Confidence-Building Measures CBM Curriculum Based Measurement (education) CBM Cubic Meter ) in the Illinois Basin, today provided an update on its operations. Establishing A New Daily Production Rate Daily production reached 780 thousand cubic feet per day (Mcf/d) as the result of the installation of a nitrogen-rejection unit (NRU NRU Nauru (ISO Country code) NRU Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (UK) NRU Not Recently Used NRU Neutral Red Uptake NRU National Research Universal ) at BPI's Delta Field in the Company's Southern Illinois Basin Project. The NRU was completed and the unit came online during the last week of March. As previously announced, in October 2006, nitrogen levels in the gas sales stream generated by this project exceeded pipeline specifications, necessitating several days of downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. . This was followed by a period where a significant number of wells were excluded from the sales stream and subsequently flared, resulting in constrained con·strain tr.v. con·strained, con·strain·ing, con·strains 1. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force. 2. gas sales. Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. James E. Craddock said: "As a result of gathering gas that was previously being flared, we experienced a nice surge in sales volume almost immediately upon the NRU coming online. Gas production at this project is still inclining in·cline v. in·clined, in·clin·ing, in·clines v.intr. 1. To deviate from the horizontal or vertical; slant. 2. To be disposed to a certain preference, opinion, or course of action. and currently is at approximately 780 Mcf per day. The NRU system is rated up to 1.8 MMcf per day, which should be sufficient to handle our expanding production from Delta for some time. We have also recently completed the second water-disposal well at this project. This new well is now operating and should accelerate the dewatering Dewatering (dē′wöd·ər·iŋ) is the removal of water from solid material or soil by wet classification, centrifugation, filtration, or similar solid-liquid separation processes. of the producing coalbeds." Drilling Program Remains on Plan BPI's drilling package for the remainder of fiscal 2007 includes a total of 50 wells. Six wells, including two pilot wells and one pressure observation well, have been drilled in the past several weeks at its Northern Illinois For the university, see Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois is a region generally covering the northern third of the U.S. state of Illinois. Economics Basin Project, and three test wells have been drilled in Montgomery, Macoupin and Clinton Counties
Current plans call for drilling a total of 30 new production wells on its Projects by July 31, 2007 (fiscal 2007 yearend). In addition, the company announced the commencement of its newest pilot drilling program. New Pilot Project BPI (Bits Per Inch) The measurement of the number of bits stored in one linear inch of a track (storage channel) on a disk or tape. Bit density on magnetic disks has reached 800,000 bpi (800 Kbpi). See tpi, areal density and magnetic disk. BPI - bits per inch is initiating its third pilot project in Macoupin County. This 11-well pilot program will consist of 10 pilot wells and one water disposal well. All 11 wells have been permitted and staked, and drilling at this new pilot has commenced. BPI's Technical Team Revises Well-Production Profile for the Illinois Basin Based on publicly available data, combined with test results from BPI's test wells, and evaluation by BPI's in-house technical team, the company has announced revised production profiles for CBM wells in the Illinois Basin. Using the mean profile of data analyzed to date, the average CBM well drilled in the Illinois Basin can be expected to produce approximately 80 Mcf per day after 24 months of dewatering. The company further announced that its anticipated per-well drilling cost has declined by 20 percent to approximately $186,000 following completion of bidding procedures with service providers. This investment includes the associated costs of central facilities such as disposal wells, NRU, and gathering infrastructure. Using a theoretical gas price of $7.00 per MMbtu, gross reserves per well of approximately 185 MMcf translate into a net present value of $130,000 per well and an internal rate of return of approximately 40 percent. Jim Azlein, BPI's chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , said: "Our unwavering goal has always been to demonstrate the commercial viability of CBM production from coalbeds in the Illinois Basin. To that end, we assembled our technical team to systematically test and analyze data in order to obtain the requisite knowledge for optimally evaluating and developing our acreage portfolio and produce CBM from the Basin. Our team has made significant progress in the past six months, and results to date reinforce our strategy and implementation of our plan. We are confident that BPI's proprietary knowledge of the Basin's CBM characteristics surpasses that of any other entity and continues to evolve at a rapid pace." About BPI Energy BPI Energy (BPI) is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, production and commercial sale of coalbed methane (CBM) in the Illinois Basin, which covers approximately 60,000 square miles A square mil is a unit of area, equal to the area of a square with sides of length one mil. A mil is one thousandth of an international inch. This unit of area is usually used in specifying the area of the cross section of a wire or cable. in Illinois, southwestern Indiana and northwestern Kentucky. The company currently controls the dominant CBM acreage position in the Illinois Basin at approximately 500,000 acres. News releases and other information on the company are available on the Internet at: http://www.bpi-energy.com Some of the statements contained in this press release may be deemed to be forward-looking in nature, outlining future expectations or anticipated operating results or financial conditions. Such forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results or conditions to differ materially from the information expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that could cause actual results or conditions to differ materially from our expectations, include, but are not limited to: (a) our inability to generate sufficient income or obtain sufficient financing to fund our operations or drilling plan through July 31, 2007, (b) our inability to retain our acreage rights at our projects, at the expiration of our lease agreements, due to insufficient CBM production, or for other reasons; (c) our failure to accurately forecast CBM production, (d) displacement of our CBM operations by coal-mining operations, which have superior rights in most of our acreage, (e) our failure to accurately forecast the number of wells that we can drill, (f) a decline in the prices that we receive for our CBM production, (g) our failure to accurately forecast operating and capital expenditures and capital needs due to rising costs or different drilling or production conditions in the field, (h) our inability to attract or retain qualified personnel with the requisite CBM or other experience, and (i) unexpected economic and market conditions, in the general economy or the market for natural gas. We caution readers not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. |
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