WorldWide Drilling Resource

35 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® FEBRUARY 2014 Reggie’s World by Reggie Stockert Buckeye BOP llc It’s been some time since I have given you an update on the Utica Shale play in Ohio. As you know, most of the activity is within a one-hour drive of where I live, and most of the activity is just south of my home. As reported recently in our local newspaper ( The Times Reporter ), the following are just a few of the numbers released from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The total number of drilling permits it has issued for drilling horizontal wells in the Utica Shale has topped the 1000 mark. Statistics released show the state has issued 13 permits and had 42 rigs Anderson pad drilling in the Utica Shale. They are calling it, “encouraging early production results and pressures”. The five-well pad averaged a five- day sale rate of 1886 barrels of oil equiv- alent per day at a mix of 40% natural gas liquids, 40% natural gas, and 20% condensate, the company said in a news release. Those numbers assume full ethane recovery and a natural gas shrink of 12%. These wells were drilled to an average measured depth of 12,873, a number including lateral sections aver- aging 4250 feet. Rex Energy has 26 permits in Ohio and 8 producing wells according to the ODNR. Ohio Utica numbers (source ODNR) drilled 293, drilling 74, permitted 389, producing 250, Total:1006. Til next month, Reggie Reggie Stockert may be contacted via e-mail at admin@ worldwidedrillingresource.com operating in the Utica Shale at the end of 2013, raising the total number of per- mits to 1006. New permits include the first five obtained by American Energy Utica, the company started by Aubrey McClendon, founder and former leader of Chesapeake Energy. Those permits are for wells in Harrison County. Carroll County remains the most active county in Ohio for Utica drilling with 352 permits and 142 pro- ducing wells. Tuscarawas County has 15 permits with Chesapeake Energy, the most recent being in Perry Township. Stark County has stayed at 13 with the last being issued in July of 2012. Stark County has two producing Utica wells (both in Marlboro Township). Another 35 permits have been issued for horizontal wells in the Marcellus Shale with the majority of them in Monroe and Belmont Counties in eastern Ohio. Of those permits, 18 wells have been drilled. You seldom hear of the wells that are drilled and plugged shortly after completion. It's just the downside of the oil business and makes it difficult to get investors, but when one comes in like gangbusters, it's what makes the drill pipe turn! That's just the case with Rex Energy. Rex Energy updated reports about its operations at its five-well J.