Our Operations
Montney/Doig Resource Play
Birchcliff’s Montney/Doig Resource Play is centred approximately 95 km northwest of Grande Prairie, Alberta. The Montney/Doig Resource Play in Birchcliff’s areas of operations is approximately 300 metres (1,000 feet) thick. The play has a large areal extent, covering in excess of 50,000 square miles. The Montney/Doig Resource Play exists in two geological formations (the Montney and the Doig) and Birchcliff has divided the geologic column in its areas of operations into six drilling intervals from the youngest (top) to the oldest (bottom): (i) the Basal Doig/Upper Montney; (ii) the Montney D4; (iii) the Montney D3; (iv) the Montney D2; (v) the Montney D1; and (vi) the Montney C.
Birchcliff is developing its Montney/Doig Resource Play through the use of horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracture stimulation technology. Over the last several years, Birchcliff has focused on multi-well pad drilling, which allows Birchcliff to reduce its environmental footprint and helps it to keep its per well costs low.
Within the Montney/Doig Resource Play, Birchcliff’s operations are primarily concentrated in the Pouce Coupe and Gordondale areas of Alberta where it owns large, contiguous blocks of high working interest land. Birchcliff also has a significant, largely undeveloped Montney land position in the Elmworth area of Alberta, which is located to the south of Birchcliff’s Pouce Coupe and Gordondale assets and provides Birchcliff with significant future inventory.
Our Assets
Birchcliff has a 100% working interest in its Pouce Coupe Gas Plant and two oil batteries, as well as various working interests in numerous other gas plants, oil batteries, compressors, facilities and infrastructure. Birchcliff operates the Gordondale Gas Plant owned by Altagas, with 100% of its throughput consisting of Birchcliff's production.
Pouce Coupe
- Proven asset in development phase, with large, low-risk multi-decade drilling inventory.
- Wells show high initial deliverability, low terminal declines and stable long-term production.
- 100% owned and operated Pouce Coupe Gas Plant provides best-in-class operating cost, maximizing netbacks.
Gordondale
- Low-decline base production requires less incremental wells to keep infrastructure full.
- Asset optimized through infrastructure buildout, including field compression, fuel gas network, water infrastructure, disposal wells and direct liquids connection to Pembina’s Peace and Northern Pipeline systems.
Elmworth
- Contiguous land block in the prolific Montney/Doig.
- Provides significant future inventory and optionality with developing LNG demand.
Birchcliff Energy
At a Glance
Birchcliff is an intermediate oil and natural gas company based in Calgary, Alberta focused on creating long-term shareholder value with operations concentrated on the Montney/Doig Resource Play in Alberta.