In early May of 2016, an amended application was submitted to the AER for an expansion of the existing SAGD Project facility site which would potentiallyincrease the operations up to a total of eight SAGD well pairs. The amended application sought approval to expand the current SAGD Project facilitysite to 3,200bopd (100% basis). It is anticipated that only five SAGD well pairs will be needed to achieve this production level. The AER approval forthe expansion of theexisting SAGD Project was granted on December 14, 2017[color=red][/color].
Currently, the SAGD Project continues to move forward with engineering and identification of longlead time items towards potential expansion to 3,200 bopd and future development at Sawn Lake. The SAGD Project expansion is dependent on, numerous factorsincluding but not limited to, the approval of the joint venture partners.