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Synergy to Accelerate Wattenberg Ops After Delays; Secures New Rig
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Synergy Resources Corporation has expanded its contract with Ensign United States Drilling Inc. to include a second automatic drilling rig (ADR) to execute the horizontal development of its leasehold in the Wattenberg Field.
Synergy believes that a two rig drilling program utilizing ADR rigs will be instrumental in accelerating horizontal development going forward. The ADR rigs have several advantages over conventional rigs, including the capability of drilling mid and extended reach laterals, reducing the environmental footprint by using natural gas instead of diesel fuel, noise abatement and creating efficiencies in leasehold development. Synergy has secured Ensign Rig #134, an ADR rig, as a replacement for Ensign Rig #17.
Latest ActivityRig #134 has spudded the first of six horizontal…
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