Venango County is in WET GAS!!!!!!

I reside in Cranberry Township, Venango County, PA.  We are clearly in the "Wet Gas."  This wet/gas line has been modified from original assumptions   I believe it has moved east due to the recent drilling and testing throughout the county and the bordering counties. This should make it very profitable and easier to transport.

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Permalink Reply by DNH on February 2, 2013 at 1:07pm

Not to be a downer by any means...I do question the line on this map.  It's pretty much the same map that's been published for years.  There have been quite a few Marcellus wells drilled in my area in southwestern Clarion county and they have all been dry.  The one Utica well I know of was also reportedly dry.  The good news is that the output was very good!  Infrastructure being planned at the moment. 

Permalink Reply by John Stanton III on February 3, 2013 at 5:57am

Check the map that Jack has posted that shows the current wells and well permits, NONE of them would have been there last year.  Look again, Penn State map was updated recently.  Shell, Halcon, and Cheveron have all have signed and paid leases in Venango in the last year.  The development has started here. Is it going as fast as any of us would like, no, but it has started and will continue to grow.  

Permalink Reply by John Stanton III on February 3, 2013 at 9:36am
Forest County well and Range test wells in 2013 will clarify. Do you agree?
Permalink Reply by jeff on February 4, 2013 at 12:41am

Jim L., Fang, et al; According to psu maps there is a 400' thick Utica below a 100-150' Marcellus under the southern end of Indiana county, Pa. (where I live) extending to West moreland county. To the best of your knowledge, could that be wet gas, and would that not give me more bargaining power? Also, there is an 8" EQT gas line running right through my property. Any input?

Permalink Reply by Area Man on February 4, 2013 at 9:32am

See the maps posted earlier - both are likely dry gas.  Always good to have more than 1 reservoir though.

Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on February 4, 2013 at 11:37am

Jeff; first I suggest asking Mike Knapp...   http://gomarcellusshale.com/profile/MikeKnapp

since he does a lot of work there.

From what I hear Indiana has a lot of fractured rock from the mountain building that makes drilling there more difficult.  Not impossible, just more difficult. Also, like Area Man said, its dry gas so not a focus right now.

As for that 8" line, that seems small for horizontal wells.  Not enough capacity for a lot of wells. How old is it and and is it a gathering line for a couple of pads? The good thing is that means the ROW is in place and they could add capacity as needed. And if it has been active for a few years, the wells it serves may be depleted enough to allow for more wells to be added.

Hope this helps and looking forward to what Mike has to say.

Permalink Reply by melissa humphrey on February 4, 2013 at 6:06pm

Wet beats Dry for sure. Catch in NW PA is the Marcellus tends to be thinner and less rich than the SW and NE PA core areas- also 6-8k depth is good, under 5k, unknown. Others, correct me if I am wrong, but there is little Marcellus targeted drilling in the NW ?

There is growing interest in upper Devonian age strata. The Marcellus is middle Devonian age. There are a few different shales of interest, as of now in testing phase. There are some early encouraging results but we really need to see some decline data.

6 Mmcf IP sounds good but not if it is under 1 Mmcf inside of 12 months at $5-6 million variable costs.

The upper Devonian Rhinestreet is not as widespread or continuous as others but at points looks very promising. A map I saw showed a slithering stream coming south from the NY border the area around where Rt 89 and 77 intersect. The thickest area if I recall correctly is about 30 mi north and south of that point.  

 

Good luck to all Pennsylvanians in all of this

Permalink Reply by myles fetterhoff on February 6, 2013 at 10:51am
Marcellus is 164 feet thick in Crawford and according to Meadville tribune on lippert well 200ft wet gas in the Utica point pleasant 7000 to 7400
Permalink Reply by myles fetterhoff on February 6, 2013 at 10:53am
Rhinestreet is 200 three hundred feet thick in places Crawford and bordering venago

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