Exploration & Production
CONSOL Provides Utica Drilling Update
CONSOL Energy reports update to Utica drilling operations,
Ohio Utica Shale (CONSOL Energy-operated):
In the Utica Shale joint venture with Hess Corporation, CONSOL Energy turned its first well, the TUSC 3A (17 stages, 4,915' completed lateral), online in the western portion of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The well produced at a peak daily rate of 400 bbls of light crude, before it was shut in for dissipation of frac fluids and to be equipped with artificial lift at the end of May. The shut in lasted for approximately 10 weeks before being brought back online in early September and now has cumulative production of over 7,800 barrels of crude.
During the third quarter, CONSOL Energy drilled four horizontal wells to TD. The NBL 1A in Noble County was drilled with a cased lateral length of…
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