Drilling Starts on Sundance Gas Well

  April 2, 2001                    Trading Symbol: CDNX-FTR

Firesteel Resources Inc. announces that drilling has just started on the Talisman et al 12-3-54-21 W5M well in the Sundance area – near Edson, Alberta. Firesteel Resources Inc. has a 1.875% working interest in this well. This drilling location is on lands, which are part of a 6-section land package that Firesteel has various interests in. 

This well has a projected depth of 2400 meters and the primary target is natural gas in the Cardium Formation. The Sundance area has a number of Cardium wells that produce at rates varying from 400 Mcf/d up to 2MMcf/day.

The 12-3 well is located 2 kilometres from Firesteel’s existing gas well and is only 5 kilometres from the nearby Sundance gas plant.

 

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF

FIRESTEEL RESOURCES INC.

 “David DuPre"

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David DuPre, President

  

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