Bowen Hills

Since the early 20th century, the green hills of Tennessee have largely remained a patchwork of small private owners of land undisturbed. Consequently, any oil exploration of the note was made by family businesses and small and intermediate oil and gas, while Big Oil has largely adopted the Appalachians by for larger, easier pickings in Texas Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana and California.

Besides not having to deal with so many small landowners, amassing large land packages has been a motivation to look elsewhere in the early years of oil exploration in the United States. Most often, according to sources like the U.S. Geological Survey, he was the technical nature of finding oil in the Appalachians.

Montello Resources Ltd. (TSX.V: MEO) is one of only a handful of oil and gas companies to begin a multimillion-dollar oil and gas exploration program in the Appalachian Mountains and Foothills technically difficult. The upstart company from Calgary, Alberta, recently won government approval in addition to supporting local residents a chance to win re-drilling of two oil prospects the most exciting state of Tennessee has seen for decades. Montello is intimidated by the prospect of being one of the few companies to drill much deeper than most would contemplate in this under-developed but emerging junior oil and gas.

Bill Cawker, who heads Montello, rightly echoes country comedienne Minnie Pearl: "We are so proud to be here," he said, "because the advice, experience on the ground warned smart, the overall performance and technical expertise of our professionals in Alberta goes so far here. "

"Everyone we work with said," You have such a site and professional! It's amazing that you're a small company based in Calgary. Anyone coming here think it is run by Conoco Phillips and Shell, not a small Canadian company like you. "

Cawker says he believes that if Montello had not posted pictures of his property on the website of the company's website, some people may not believe the progress they've made. Montello has chiseled 250 wellsites feet by 250 feet by 30 to 40 feet deep in rock.

"This is the type of project normally handled by a company much larger than ours, if we succeeded or oppressed by the tag honest here. We like to prove ourselves and enjoy the fact that we show all opponents to date. "

Montello drilling site is located in the heart of an agricultural area with panoramic few perceptible signs of potentially prolific oil reserves are believed to exist completely untapped thousands of feet beneath the lush meadows of Morgan County . Therefore, the State of Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Geology Oil and Gas program, monitoring the work of officials of Montello, in close and constant. Cawker says Montello welcomes the help of geologists from top-flight state during drilling of John Bowen # 2 well.

An application for permit to drill the Morgan Highpoint Project # 1 (formally known as the John Bowen # 2 well) was granted by the Ministry of Environment and Conservation, in July. The construction site and was completed to the satisfaction of the department and its oil and gas inspector toured the site and presented a copy of drilling permits approved in person on Monday, July 23.

Montello and its joint venture partners are drilling on the property, 164 acres adjacent to the Howard family farm property near the community of High Point in rural north-central Tennessee, about an hour and 40 minutes drive north of Knoxville. The drill site is a mile on the site of Pryor Oil Howard White # 1 - the original name of an over-pressure.