Geoscience BC: Is there Oil & Gas in the Nechako Basin, South- Central BC? Geoscience BC takes steps to answer the age-old question

From: CCNMatthews Newswire | Date: November 21, 2006 | Copyright information

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(CCNMatthews - Nov. 21, 2006) - Geoscience BC, in cooperation with Arcis Corporation, announced today the signing of a definitive agreement whereby Geoscience BC has acquired the rights to seismic data from the Nechako Basin acquired by Canadian Hunter Exploration in the early 1980s. This seismic data covers a significant part of the southern portion of the Basin located west of Quesnel and Williams Lake.

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