Norstra Energy, Inc. announced that it is finalizing the evaluation of technical data for the first drill location on its South Sun River Prospect. Central to the viability of Norstra's South Sun River Prospect are the subsurface well logs in the area. Norstra is fortunate to have acreage that is near wells that show the likelihood of commercial oil in the Bakken Oil Formation.

There are three key wells in the immediate vicinity of the first potential Norstra drill site: Krone #3132 drilled by Shell Oil Company. This well demonstrates those essential parameters for a commercial well in the Bakken Oil Formation. There are 24 feet of Bakken middle member present.

The middle member of the Bakken Oil Formation produces most of the oil. The reservoir rock displays a resistivity of 200 ohms suggesting oil and gasis present. The well is less than 2.5 miles away from the first proposed Norstra drill site; Steinbach #1 drilled by Arco.

The Steinbach # 1 well is around 3,000 feet deeper than the Krone well. The same reservoir is present, but with deeper buried shales that are heated at a higher temperature resulting in higher resistivities from the generations ofoil and gas. The resistivity here is over 2,000 ohms. The well is less than 5 miles south of the first proposed drill site; Soap Creek Cattle Co.

#1331 drilled by Flying J Oil and Gas. The well is not studied much because it did not penetrate the Bakken Oil Formation. It still has some very significant information for the project.

The well stopped in the middle member of the Blackleaf Oil Formation at a depth of 5,480 feet. The Bakken is perhaps 3,000 feet deeper. The oil is described from 4,928 to 4,994 feet.

It is in a fractured member of the Taft Hill and the oil has been biodegraded to aheavy crude due to the presence of the water in the fractures. This oil has migrated up the thrust from deeper formations. The source for the oil could be the Bakken Oil Formation.

This well is less than 0.75 miles from the proposed first drillsite away.