Case Study – Syrian SFD Market Test

The Syrian Petroleum Company, SPC, the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and NXT Energy Solutions Inc., NXT, completed a SFD technology evaluation survey in March 2004. SPC designed the survey grid to cover known geological structures. The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources arranged for all clearances required to conduct the lowlevel airborne SFD surveys. NXT mobilized the aircraft and crew from Canada to the Syrian Arab Republic and operated the aircraft to conduct the SFD survey.

NXT conducted a 5800 kilometer blind survey that was closely controlled by representatives of SPC, The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and the Syrian Air force over 6 days encompassing one third of Syria. With no prior access to geological information, NXT had no opportunity to modify or calibrate interpretation protocols developed in North America and NXT was not permitted to retrace or alter the SPC flight patterns. The results were thereafter analyzed by NXT without reference to geological or geophysical data. The acquisition, processing and interpretation of the SFD data required 32 days.

RESULTS
SPC Exploration Department staff reviewed the SFD anomalies submitted by NXT and in a letter dated May 11, 2004 SPC stated that NXT had identified 108 of 137 structures. In addition, NXT identified and submitted 17 Prospect Areas, which are significant anomalies crossed by two grid lines and have a high potential for commercial production. SPC stated that 12 of the 17 Prospect Areas had been drilled and 11 were producing fields. Three Prospect Areas had been identified by seismic and 2 were new to SPC. The 11 Prospect Areas identified as producing fields have current cumulative production of 200,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

The Syrian Market Test culminates a period of 12 years of development of the SFD technology by George Liszicasz and NXT resulting in multi-sensor arrays capable of responding to a variety of geological environments. Previous testing in Canada and the United States strongly indicated the potential of the SFD technology but no similar survey without prior access to geological data was conducted over a wide area where the results could be correlated to known production and geological structures.