Deep Well Oil & Gas, Inc. announced that the Alberta Energy Regulator has approved an application previously submitted by the company to the Alberta Energy Regulator for development using Horizontal Cyclical Steam Stimulation, planned for the thermal recovery project on one half section of land located at section 10-92-13W5 near Sawn Lake, Alberta. This approval is related to lands presently owned 90% by Deep Well. MP West Canada SAS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saint-Aubin Energy, in addition to the previously announced SAGD project, has the option to participate for up to a 45% working interest in this HCSS project by committing an additional $110,000,000 of funding.

In September of 2009, Deep Well applied to the Alberta Energy Regulator for a commercial bitumen recovery scheme to evaluate one of the company's wells for potential development using cyclical steam stimulation on one of the company's vertical wells. In October of 2010, this application was approved by the Alberta Energy Regulator. In February 2012, Deep Well filed an application with the Alberta Energy Regulator to modify its previously approved CSS application to use an HCSS recovery process instead of vertical well CSS.