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Comment by Jim Litwinowicz on October 26, 2012 at 9:37am

Again from same report; "Range's second Upper Devonian super-rich well continued to clean-up following our August announcement and ultimately had a peak 24-hour rate of 552 barrels per day of liquids (172 barrels of condensate and 380 barrels of NGLs) and 4.7 Mmcf per day of gas, or 8.0 (6.8 net) Mmcfe per day. With ethane recovery, the well would have tested at 998 barrels per day of liquids (172 barrels of condensate and 826 barrels of NGLs) and 4.0 Mmcf per day of gas, or 10.0 (8.5 net) Mmcfe per day."         I think this well is in SW Pa.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/range-announces-third-quarter-2012...

Comment by Jim Litwinowicz on October 24, 2012 at 10:56pm

From Range's 3rd qt report; "In addition to Marcellus drilling, the division drilled and successfully completed the industry's first wet Utica test in northwestern Pennsylvania where the Company has 190,000 net acres of leasehold. The well is currently shut in waiting testing. A second wet Utica test is scheduled to spud in the fourth quarter."

Comment by Jim Litwinowicz on October 22, 2012 at 9:00am

There is a big difference in flaring of associated gas where they burn off all nat gas that flows from the well for the lifetime of the well. They burn it because it is thought to be too expensive to run pipelines or other capture systems to remote wells. There are some wells in the Eagle Ford that are flaring off the gas because there are no pipelines there and they are making huge profits off of the oil.

This is different than flaring a new well as part of its development process. I am not very educated on all the reasons they flare wells. I hear it is a test to see the flow rate before running in pipelines. I believe part of it is to get as much water out as possible so they have much less expense on dehydration costs. Others say it is done to get maximum production out of the well, the flaring increases the flow rate.

The companies know that hey burn a lot of gas in the process. It must make sense economically as these companies always want to maximize their ROI. If there was a way to do it cheaper, I assume they would. Hopefully, new methods are being developed to reduce the wasting of this resource and to increase the ROI to both the companies and the royalty owners.

Comment by Bob Jenness on October 21, 2012 at 10:59pm

Regarding the flaring discussion:

1. As to the oil/gas distinction, it makes little difference to me, as a landowner, whether they burn my gas and pollute because they can't build infrastructure for gas and want the oil or whether they won't buy equipment to clean a new well and move it from one well to the next when ready.  It's still a big waste of my gas and my neighbor's goodwill.  

2. Sam's royalty for gas flared at least provides some financial incentive for them to minimize or eliminate it, but I shudder at the complexity of monitoring and auditing the size of it.  I'd much prefer to see an actual drilling plan as a lease addendum, then this, and a flurry of other issues could be committed contractually.  Of course, I'm just a landowner, and have no power to secure such a fair contract with a drilling partner (or land speculator, as the case may be:-).

Comment by Sam Douglass on October 21, 2012 at 10:49pm

I was only showing what is available from the Marcellusgas.org site.

It only purports to show Marcellus sites and only those sites that DEP knows about.  It seems strange that DEP does not know about and has not mapped every drilling site - particularly if DEP is inspecting the drilling operation.

Subject to the mentioned limitations, I have found the MarcellusGas.org site accurate and helpful.

Comment by Berk on October 21, 2012 at 10:43pm

Permits_Issued_Detail.pdf

Venango county permits.

Comment by Jim Litwinowicz on October 21, 2012 at 10:31pm

Sam; Halcon has  a second pad called the Rainbow well just north of the Allam pad.  I know because I was there two weeks ago. Other people have posted about a third pad on Polk Cut-off Rd but I haven't seen that one yet.

Comment by Berk on October 21, 2012 at 9:57pm

well permit linkhttp://www.depreportingservices.state.pa.us/ReportServer/Pages/Repo...

Comment by Sam Douglass on October 21, 2012 at 9:47pm

MarcellusGas.org shows only 2 wells for Vista
LONCHENA P 1 Well-Pad
Show on Map | Well-Pad Report (1) wells Forward Township Butler County


LONCHENA P 1 View Report
Show on Map
Drilling Map $10.00
(retrieved: Jun/2010 1 pg)
Claim as my FREE Drilling Map
OR ... Call to Order
Well Packet $25.00
(retrieved Jun/2010 27 pgs)

OR ... Call to Order



PINE RUN FARMS 2 Well-Pad
Show on Map | Well-Pad Report (1) wells Perry Township Mercer County


PINE RUN FARMS 2 View Report
Show on Map
Request Drilling Map
Request Well Packet

Comment by Sam Douglass on October 21, 2012 at 9:44pm

Marcellugas.org only shows one well for Halcon:

Well Name:	ALLAM 1H 1 Show Wellsite on Map
MGOrg ID:	14935 (DEP permit number: 121-44946)
County:	Venango
Municipality:	Frenchcreek
Well Development Started:	Yes: 2012-10-12

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