Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration says con­struc­tion of its Cas­cadu­ra nat­ur­al gas and liq­uids fa­cil­i­ty is pro­gress­ing.

In an­nounc­ing its op­er­a­tional up­date, the com­pa­ny said it is cur­rent­ly un­der­tak­ing pre-com­mis­sion­ing of the fa­cil­i­ty, which con­sists of test­ing all elec­tron­ics, alarms, op­er­at­ing sys­tems, flare and emer­gency shut­down sys­tems, as well as purg­ing air from the sys­tem us­ing in­ert ni­tro­gen gas.

“In par­al­lel with these op­er­a­tions, on or about Ju­ly 8, 2023, we will re­move the down­hole safe­ty plugs from the Cas­cadu­ra-1ST1 and Cas­cadu­ra Deep-1 wells and com­mence fa­cil­i­ty com­mis­sion­ing op­er­a­tions,” Touch­stone added.

Re­gard­ing Roys­ton the com­pa­ny said it has com­plet­ed the sec­ond pro­duc­tion test of the Roys­ton-1X well, which in­clud­ed three zones tar­get­ing a gross in­ter­val of 80 feet in the mid­dle por­tion of the sub­thrust sheet of the Her­rera For­ma­tion at depths be­tween 10,604 and 11,020 feet.

It al­so not­ed that each zone pro­duced light crude oil, with well­head shut in pres­sure up to 2,450 pounds per square inch.

“Pro­duc­tion flowed to the sur­face at non-com­mer­cial rates. This sec­tion of the for­ma­tion ap­pears to be a low per­me­abil­i­ty reser­voir, and fur­ther test­ing will not be con­duct­ed.

“The next well test will tar­get a gross in­ter­val of 106 feet with­in the in­ter­me­di­ate sheet, which is the pri­ma­ry tar­get of the well,” Touch­stone added.

Touch­stone is a Cal­gary, Al­ber­ta based com­pa­ny en­gaged in the busi­ness of ac­quir­ing in­ter­ests in pe­tro­le­um and nat­ur­al gas rights and the ex­plo­ration, de­vel­op­ment, pro­duc­tion and sale of pe­tro­le­um and nat­ur­al gas.

Touch­stone is cur­rent­ly ac­tive in on­shore prop­er­ties lo­cat­ed in T&T.