Fort Nelson, British Columbia (and area)

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Current operations

Our Fort Nelson area operations are located in northeastern British Columbia in the Jean Marie geological formation and the Horn River Basin. Currently we have about 35 staff who live in the Fort Nelson area. We also employ a large number of service companies.

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We're committed to working with the Fort Nelson community and local First Nations in an honest, transparent and respectful manner

Supporting healthy lifestyles - Vancouver Sun Run

As part of our focus on contributing to sustainable communities and supporting healthy lifestyles of our employees, contractors and community members, Encana has committed to supporting the Volunteer Division of the Vancouver Sun Run in 2013.

The Vancouver Sun will be profiling the blog of Angela White, a Surface Landman for Encana in Fort Nelson, as she shares the highs and lows of training in a Northern community in the middle of winter.

Follow Angela's blog from her first early morning training adventure until race day in 13 weeks.

Major project updates: Cabin Gas Plant construction
and commissioning deferred

On October 22, 2012, in consultation with the owners and gas suppliers to the Cabin Gas Plant, Encana and its partners announced the deferral of further construction on phase two of the Cabin Gas Plant Projects, known as Cabin Gas Plant 2, and the deferral of further commissioning activities on Cabin Gas Plant 1, in the Horn River Basin in northeastern British Columbia.

Operatorship transition of the Cabin Gas Plants to Enbridge has been deferred until at least the second quarter of 2013.

Quick facts

Our Horn River program was designed to drill long reach, multi-stage horizontal wells using resource play hubs that ultimately develop more of the resource, more efficiently, at a lower cost and all from a single surface location.

The Debolt Water Treatment Plant utilizing the Debolt formation (a deep, sub-surface aquifer containing saline, sour water) supplies water for hydraulic fracturing operations and reduces the water required from surface water sources to 10 percent.

Sierra (Jean Marie)

approximately 1,264,000 net acres
914 net producing wells in this area

Horn River Basin

approximately 288,000 net acres; of this, between 10 to 15 percent is currently developed

A rainy day and muddy ground did not dampen the spirits of this trio of family volunteers who showed up to plant a tree at the Fort Nelson Arbor Day event on June 3.

Local environment initiatives

On June 3, we participated in the Arbor Day tree planting event where trees were planted at various sites throughout the town of Fort Nelson.

We sponsored three local schools in Fort Nelson to participate in Project Webfoot, where students learn about the importance of Canada’s wetlands.

Our three main camps bring trailers full of recycling to town every three months. Local groups who are interested in sorting and making money from the pop cans and other returnable’s are contacted on a rotation basis. That equates to about $2,500 per load of cans to support local groups (like the Carlson playground, FINNS swim club, Fort Nelson High school groups) on a monthly basis.

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