Bradford Becomes Most-Drilled County in Shale
Heidi & insan_art: Do you know anything about “spud date” mentioned below?????? Can this help the people who want to know when drilling will commence near them????
Ok, I have about 7 pages of unopened e-mail and don’t know how to get caught up.
Nor do I know how to “catch up” with this latest news about Bradford County.
What makes me puke is one of the reasons given for Bradford taking the lead was “accommodating local officials,” according to Mark Scheuerman, spokesman for Talisman Energy (formerly Fortuna).
This was an article in today’s hardcopy issue of the Sayre Morning Times. The Morning Times usually only publishes a few articles in entirety online. The rest are just one paragraph teasers ending with the advice to buy the hardcopy.
But I can’t even find the one paragraph teaser online for this story!
How fast can I type? It is not word for word, but the quote is. $1 billion??? Can’t afford a severance tax????
In March, Bradford Co. surpassed Washington Co. (located in SW PA) as the county with the most wells drilled into the Marcellus Shale in PA.
It mentions a “spud date.” “Spud date” reports on file with the PA DEP says there are 209 active natural gas wells in Bradford Co., 43 of which became active in March. Washington Co. currently has 197 active Marcellus wells.
Other counties totals:
Tioga (PA): 168 Greene: 122 Susquehanna: 106
There are 26 other counties with Marcellus shale wells, most with less than 20 wells.
According to Tom Rathbun of the DEP, each spud date report indicates an operator has started or plans to start drilling the well on the date indicated.
Talisman’s primary land position is in Bradford, Tioga & Susquehanna Counties. Scheuerman says the company has an aggressive plan moving forward through the rest of 2010. “We have a spending plan for this year alone of $1 billion… and that will get us out about 170 net wells, so we’re looking to have an exit rate in production at the end of the year of somewhere bettween 250 million & 300 million cu feet per day.”
Chesapeake said their first Marcellus well was in Bradford Co. and they think this is where the geology was most prospective for Marcellus shale drilling.