Miller Energy Resources releases an update on its operations both in Alaska and in Tennessee.

Miller announced that its wholly owned Alaskan subsidiary, Cook Inlet Energy (CIE), led by David Hall, successfully completed a work-over on RU-3 natural gas well on its Osprey platform on February 11, 2013. This is the second successful gas well CIE has brought online in the last two weeks. RU-3 is currently flowing and being unloaded in preparation for four-point flow test, test results forthcoming. Gas production from RU-3 is expected to be exported to help meet gas demand in the Cook Inlet.

CIE successfully re-established gas production from the Tyonek G-0 sand, which had been unable to produce gas since it was unsuccessfully reworked by a previous operator in December 2003. RU-3 encountered an average of 20 feet of net gas pay across an estimated 150-acre reservoir. The zone produced a total of 452 MMscf between May and December of 2003. The well went off production due to mechanical problems and had subsequently been plugged back to a shallower zone for an attempted completion. CIE successfully completed a complex fishing job to remove materials and equipment left in the wellbore from this previous completion attempt in order reopen the deeper proven reservoir and reestablish production.

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