Utica Shale 3rd Quarter 2013 Production Report Show Major Gas Production in Belmont, Monroe Counties

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We've had a little bit to look over some of the numbers from the production report released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for shale drillers in the third quarter of 2013, and here are some of the tidbits that jumped out.

As was noted in the ODNR press release, the total production was 1,332,477 barrels of oil and 33,606,075,000 cubic feet of natural gas from 285 wells (only 245 of which reported production results).  To put that in perspective, there were 87 wells reporting when the ODNR last gave us a production report.  That report covered all of 2012, and for the entire year there were 635,896 barrels of oil and 12,836,662,000 cubic feet of natural gas produced.  That means that over twice as much oil was produced from Ohio shale wells in the third quarter of this year than in all of last year.  There was also 261% more natural gas produced in the third quarter of 2013 than in all of 2012.

A couple further details:

  • The top 5 wells for natural gas production all are in Belmont County.
  • The 6th to 10th best producing wells for natural gas are all in Monroe County.
  • 6 of the top 10 wells for oil production are located in Harrison County.
  • Gulfport Energy has the top 5 gas producing wells and the top oil producing well.
  • Chesapeake Energy has 5 of the top 10 oil producing wells.
Here is how some of the numbers break down.  Note that the oil number tells you how many 42-gallon barrels were produced, the gas numbers tell you the cubic feet (the report from the ODNR shows those figures in MCF, but I think you get a better idea by looking at the actual cubic feet) and include natural gas liquids, and brine numbers are 42-gallon barrels. 


TOTAL PRODUCTION BY COUNTY

County Oil Gas Brine # of wells
Belmont 6064 4,708,115,000 38,407 13
Carroll 708,850 16,713,769,000 453,104 145
Columbiana 15,411 1,047,704,000 18,079 20
Coshocton 0 0 0 1
Guernsey 61,213 299,239,000 33,639 13
Harrison 383,698 3,647,357,000 317,291 42
Jefferson 0 1,175,394,000 6,239 11
Mahoning 2,594 340,490,000 10,865 5
Monroe 11,366 3,499,814,000 40,105 8
Muskingum 5,900 23,826,000 209 1
Noble 130,861 2,061,623,000 44,839 17
Portage 0 0 0 2
Stark 2,795 42,396,000 1,850 2
Trumbull 604 3,869,000 6,367 1
Tuscarawas 3,301 42,479,000 3,885 3
Wayne 0 0 0 1

TOP 10 OIL PRODUCING WELLS

County Well Name Barrels of Oil Days in Production
Harrison Boy Scout 2-33H 41,617 70
Noble Miley Unit 2H 25,899 33
Harrison Henderson South 10-12-6 5H 24,689 92
Carroll Gartrell 23-13-6 8H 22,638 74
Carroll Brace West 2H 22,239 80
Harrison Henderson South 10-12-6 1H 22,178 87
Harrison Addy 9-12-6 3H 21,645 90
Noble Wayne Unit 2H 21,490 41
Harrison Addy 9-12-6 5H 21,237 87
Harrison Boy Scout 4-33H 20,770 65

TOP 10 GAS PRODUCING WELLS

County Well Name Barrels of Oil Days in Production
Belmont Stutzman 1-14H 1,249,739,000 89
Belmont Shugert 1-12H 827,916,000 85
Belmont McCort 2-28H 826,255,000 88
Belmont McCort 1-28H 801,188,000 88
Belmont Shugert 1-1H 776,999,000 87
Monroe Et Rubel 2H 772,673,000 55
Monroe Yontz Unit 1H 741,608,000 47
Monroe Et Rubel 3H 697,367,000 52
Monroe Norman Unit 1H 670,426,000 47
Monroe Et Rubel 1H 512,305,000 49

That ought to be enough to get you started with digesting some of the production data.  You can view the whole report by clicking here.

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