New West Virginia well races to top of Utica production records
Monday, September 29, 2014
According to Akron Beacon Journal, a Tyler County, West Virginia natural gas well has produced 46.5 million cubic feet (Mmcf) per day since it went online a little more than a week ago.
Houston-based Magnum Hunter Resources operates the well, named Stewart Windland 1300U. The well is ranked among the Utica Shale’s top-producing wells, such as one of Rice Energy’s wells in Belmont County, Ohio. At 10,825 feet deep and a lateral of 5,289 feet, it is boasts one of the highest flow rates in the Utica play.
From Akron Beacon Journal:
“It is the second Utica well drilled in West Virginia, where the shale formation is deeper and more expensive to tap. Chevron Corp. drilled the first in Marshall County earlier this year.”
Via: Akron Beacon Journal > Company records record-setting Utica well for natural gas in West Virginia’s Tyler County
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