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Eagle Ford Shale DUCs Continue to Grow; Operators Await Better Condensate Price
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Over the past week, we have received more than 10 phone calls (unusually high) regarding DUCs and whether what we are hearing is true regarding operators completing DUCs.
We decided to take a look at the data, what we found is that DUCs continue to grow in large part because of condensate prices.
Below is a chart from our DUCs database showing the growth trend.
EOG Resources, Marathon Oil and Chesapeake Energy commands more than 50% of the DUCs in the Eagle Ford trend.
Source : Shale Experts DUCs Database
DUC Count By Company
Source : Shale Experts DUCs Database
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