Octagon 88 Resources, Inc. announced that the Manning project's operator has confirmed it has received the license to drill the first horizontal production well (W 7-10-91-22W5), one of a series of horizontal wells on the Bluesky Gething formation as previously advised. Lease preparation on site has been concluded, based on rig availability the operator is now targeting to spud the well on July 15, 2014. This well will be the first of 5 horizontal wells that will be drilled from one well pad; the other four licenses are currently underway.

Each well targets the upper zones of the Bluesky Gething formation where the operator has experienced ideal primary production conditions by way of prior core results, lab testing and previous vertical production well testing. The operator reports: 'each well will be 800 to 1200 meters in length with expected results to be production of 150 to 200 barrels a day. The oil tested from the last vertical at AGAT labs showed a consistency of API in the range of 10.5 to 11.5 degrees which is known to be exploitable by Conventional Heavy Oil drilling technology.