UNLEASHING APPALACHIAN GAS

摘要

To say it was a big day in the EQT corporate tower in downtown Pittsburgh would be an understatement. Watching monitors with real-time field information, virtually the entire complex waited with anticipation in late August for the Scotts Run well in Greene County, Pennsylvania, to come online and begin producing. The well, EQT's first test of the high-pressured Utica dry gas phase in southwestern Pennsylvania, had been troublesome, costing some $30 million out of an abundance of caution. Earlier, Range Resources had success with a deep, dry Utica completion north of here in Washington County at 59 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) initial production, and indications during drilling and completing of Scotts Run pointed to a positive outcome. But the operations team needed the well to be amazing to hope for an economic outcome for their expensive experiment.