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Permalink Reply by Oliver Perry on March 9, 2014 at 4:42am

Larry,

You can request the well plat from the DCNR free of charge by email. Then you can see exactly where the well will be located. Provide the well name, township, county, and operator to Katherine Schmid and she will email the plat to you promptly. Here is the link:

http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/econresource/oilandgas/ogfind/i...

 Onondaga Limestone is located directly under the Marcellus Shale, so it could be a Marcellus well. The well plat will state the target formation. The Utica is much deeper so that would not be included.

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Permalink Reply by Philip Thackray on March 9, 2014 at 5:25am

Hi Larry,

There are three permitted wells 019-22182,3,4 (so far).  Those are the numbers you need to order the well plats.

They are all marcellus.  Two of those are under your unit, one is slightly north east of your unit.

That is a nicely shaped unit.  4677 feet wide with laterals greater than a mile long.  They are using 600 foot spacing so should get 7-8 wells in there.  As far as I can tell, all the wells will come from the pad on the Western PA Company farm off Constitution Ave.  It looked to me like they have a big triple rig there - didn't get real close but looked like three standard pipes screwed together in the storage area.

Should be fun to follow!

Good luck!

Phil

 

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Permalink Reply by Larry F on March 9, 2014 at 12:52pm

Thanks Phil, appreciate the info...   It makes sense that the rig would be at the 'point' on the map, easy access to Rt 68 for the trucks.

When I drove by the construction site on Constitution, it had a sign that said 'Shipley' (my declaration says "Shipley South") so I thought it was for a different well. It appeared to be farther from Rt 68 than what shows on the map, but that might just be the driveway...  and I'm not sure what I'm looking at anyway :')

I requested the maps/info from the link above, should make for some interesting reading.

Larry

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Permalink Reply by Philip Thackray on March 10, 2014 at 12:35am

Larry,

Originally the well pad was to be on one of the many Frank Shipley properties off Rt 68 south of the current location.  For some reason not known to me Rex decided to move the well pad to its present location on the Western PA Company property but it kept the Shipley name.

To reach the horizontal that will lie beside Spithalter School Road (all the laterals in this unit will be pointing toward the south east) they will have to drill at an angle to a point 6000 feet to the south west of the well pad and 5500 feet below the surface to get to the BEGINNING of the lateral!

The Shipley North unit should be to the north east of the Shipley South unit.  And there could be more units to the north west of the well pad.

Regards,

Phil

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