Stone Energy’s WV Utica Well Among Best Yet Tested

摘要

Stone Energy Corp.’s first Utica Shale well in West Virginia’s Wetzel County had a peak five-day test rate of 30 MMcf/d, the company said, in yet another confirmation of the formation’s potential in the state, where multiple operators began testing it this year (see Shale Daily, March 26). The well was drilled to a total depth of 11,350 feet, with just a 3,605-foot lateral from Stone’s Pribble Pad. Along with others either staked, spud or completed in the state this year, the pad has been closely watched by the industry (see Shale Daily, May 16). Louisiana-based Stone, which has about 90,000 Marcellus Shale acres under lease in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, said the test flow calculates to a rate of 8 MMcf/d per thousand feet of lateral, making it one of the best Utica Shale wells yet tested in the region.