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Dejour Eyes Mancos-Niobrara Ops After Hitting 4,500 Mcf/d at Kokopelli
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Dejour Energy Inc. has reported that early natural gas production at the Company’s flagship Kokopelli project has now exceeded 4,500 MCF/D of rich gas (1.181 MMBTU’s per MCF), as the four new Williams Fork completions continue to unload fracture fluid while flowing to sales at restricted rates.
As previously disclosed, these four wells were completed in the Williams Fork formation with eight fracture stages per well and placed into production under Dejour’s policy of green completions. To date, approximately one third of the fluid injected has been recovered and the wells continue to unload fluid at a combined rate of 850 BWP/D. Initial four hour well tests were performed on each well on August 24 and 25. The average well flow rate during the test period was 1,700 MCF/D, for a total of…
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