The company looking to explore the Old Harry oil prospect in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has another discovery on its hands.
According to CBC, Corridor Resources president Norm Miller told a Halifax audience Tuesday that Corridor and its partner Apache found a significant deposit of natural gas in Sussex County New Brunswick.
The gas find came in a hole originally drilled and abandoned 11 years ago. Miller said that new technology allowed Corridor to find gas in a shale bed where it previously missed it. The Chronicle Herald reports the find is the largest shale gas deposit in North America. One independent estimate projects as much as 67 trillion cubic feet of natural gas could be found in that area of New Brunswick.
The find is also related to Corridor’s ongoing exploration for oil in New Brunswick. [map]
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