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WPX Completes Second Big Niobrara Well
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WPX Energy successfully completed its second well in the Niobrara Shale following its significant natural gas discovery in western Colorado earlier this year.
WPX’s second Niobrara well was completed at the end of September, posting an initial rate of 11.8 million cubic feet per day at a flowing casing pressure of 5,700 pounds per square inch.
To optimize the performance of the reservoir, the well has since been choked back substantially to 8 MMcf/d at 5,400 pounds per square inch of flowing tubing pressure.
This second Niobrara well is three miles to the southeast of the initial discovery well, which first produced at a rate of 16 MMcf/d with a flowing casing pressure of 7,300 pounds per square inch.
Over its first 10 months, the initial discovery well has produced 2 billion cubic feet…
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