Exploration & Production
Quicksilver Permian Basin and Horn River Ops
Quicksilver Resources, is providing an operational update on its recently-completed well in the Delaware Basin in West Texas and the completion of the eight-well pad in the Horn River Basin in British Columbia.
West Texas / Bone Spring
In Pecos County, the company re-entered the vertical Price Ranch #1 well and completed a 1,500-foot horizontal lateral. This lateral was completed with six fracture stages in the Third Bone Springs formation. The well, in which Quicksilver has a 100% working interest, produced at an initial rate of 300 Boed, with 80% oil and 20% high-BTU natural gas and has flowed at an average 10-day rate of 200 Boed. The company plans to drill additional wells having 6,000 to 7,500-foot laterals and at least 20 fracture stages. Quicksilver holds approximately 45,000 acres…
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