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New Marcellus E&P Marks IPO; Will Spend $1B in 2014

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New Marcellus E&P Marks IPO; Will Spend $1B in 2014

On December 9th, 2013, we reported that Rice Drilling LLC had filed it's IPO (see a profile of the company here).

The company disclosed in it's filing that in 2014, excluding $100 million cash to be paid with respect to the Marcellus JV Buy-In, they plan to invest $1,080 million in our operations as follows:

$299 million for drilling and completion in the Marcellus Shale; $132 million for drilling and completion in the Utica Shale; $386 million for leasehold acquisitions; and $263 million for midstream infrastructure development.

This represents a 72% increase over Rice's $629 million pro forma 2013 capital budget.

The following table provides a summary of the company's acreage, average working interest, producing wells, drilling locations, years of drilling inventory, projected 2014…

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