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Gastar Touts 'Most Productive' Dry Gas Utica Well to Date
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Gastar Exploration Inc. has reported an operational update on recent well results and activity in the Utica/Point Pleasant play in West Virginia.
Well ResultsThe Simms U-5H well in Marshall County, West Virginia, Gastar's first Utica/Point Pleasant well, produced at an initial 48-hour gross sales rate of 29.4 MMcf/d of natural gas on a 30/64ths choke with approximately 6,700 psi of flowing casing pressure. The well lateral length is 4,447 feet and was completed with 25 hydraulic fracturing stages that used approximately 10.6 million pounds of sand proppant. Gastar has a 50% working interest in the Simms U-5H well (43.2% net revenue interest.
J. Russell Porter, Gastar's President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We believe the Simms U-5H is one of the most productive wells to…
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