Exploration & Production | Drilling / Well Results
National Fuel's Utica Shale Well IPs at 3.9 MMcf/d
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Seneca Resources Corporation, the wholly owned exploration and production subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Company, has reported an update on its program to assess the Utica Shale formation, as a second producing horizon underlying much of its Marcellus Shale acreage in western Pennsylvania.
In Forest County, Pa., Seneca has flow tested its first horizontal Utica Shale well at a peak 24-hour rate of 3.9 million cubic feet per day. Initial testing on this well began on Nov. 11, 2012 and lasted for six days. Currently, this well is shut-in while awaiting pipeline infrastructure and is expected to begin production in the second quarter of fiscal 2013. Thus far, Seneca has drilled two horizontal and three vertical exploration wells into the Utica Shale formation. The second horizontal well…
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