Our History
Onshore History Timeline - Highlights
- Nov/Dec 2013 East Coast Energy began exploring for natural gas by drilling 1 vertical and 1 horizontal well.
- September 2011 Call 10-2 Results: The successful bidder, St. Brendan's Exploration Ltd., picked up three conventional exploration agreements (Truemanville, Malagash and Scotsburn).
- June 2008 Elmworth Energy Corporation submitted a development plan as part of their application in accordance with requirements for a production agreement.
- October 2007 Stealth Ventures Ltd. receives approval, with conditions, to develop coal-bed methane — also known as natural gas from coal — in the Springhill area of Cumberland County. It is the province's first production agreement for coalbed methane.
- 2002 Encana drilled a single coalbed methane well in the Stellarton basin.
- 2001 High level of exploration activity onshore with 550km of seismic data aquired with Northstar drilling 5 wells on their Windsor exploration agreement.
- Summer 2000 Onshore seismic programs shot by Hunt Oil (30km) and Northstar Energy Corp. (187km). This was the first seismic data acquired since 1983.
- 1994-1996 Resources Enterprises Inc. drilled a series of seven coalbed methane wells in the Stellarton and Springhill coal basins. The company drilled the Rivert Hebert, Shallow Springhill, Newville Lake and Springhill/Athol wells in the Springhill area, as well as the Lourdes, Heather and Highland mall regions without producing economic volumes of natural gas.
- 1994 A round of drilling and evaluating coal gas begins in the onshore.
- 1979-1981 The first provincial record of an attempt to actively produce coalbed methance in Nova Scotia was done through the Department of Natural Resources. Twenty test holes were drilled in the Stellarton area by Algas, which drilled three production wells. They weren’t successful in producing economic quantities of natural gas.
- 1869 Record of the first well drilled onshore Nova Scotia by Lake Ainslie Oil and Salt Company on the western side of Lake Ainslie. It flowed small amounts of oil and natural gas.