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Pennsylvania – update through November 2019
October gas production came in at 18.7 Bcf/d, slightly higher than in the previous month, and again setting a new all-time high. But the horizontal rig count is down by almost 60% since the start of the year and production growth is stalling.
Pennsylvania – update through October 2019
October gas production came in at 18.7 Bcf/d, slightly higher than in the previous month, and again setting a new all-time high. But the horizontal rig count is down by almost 60% since the start of the year and production growth is stalling.
Pennsylvania – update through September 2019
September gas production came in at 18.6 Bcf/d, unchanged from the previous month. After several years of major improvements, well productivity is up only by a few percent since 2017 (see the “Well quality” tab).
Pennsylvania – update through August 2019
After record gas production in July, August set a new high again at 18.6 Bcf/d. But completion activity is lower than last year; 473 wells came online in the first 8 months of this year, versus 525 in the same period last year.
Pennsylvania – update through July 2019
Natural gas production from these horizontal wells stayed at 18.3 Bcf/d in June. Similar to previous years, almost no growth was seen in the first 6 months of the year. During this period, 314 wells started production, slightly below the count in the same time frame last year (353).
Pennsylvania – update through June 2019
Natural gas production from these horizontal wells stayed at 18.3 Bcf/d in June. Similar to previous years, almost no growth was seen in the first 6 months of the year. During this period, 314 wells started production, slightly below the count in the same time frame last year (353).
Pennsylvania – update through May 2019
Similar to last year, May production dipped m-o-m and came in at 18.1 Bcf/d, a y-o-y increase of 2.4 Bcf/d. Well performance has increased a lot over the years, as is visible in the ‘Well quality’ tab. The 594 horizontal wells that began production in 2010 needed 6 years before they recovered an average of 3 Bcf of natural gas. The 748 horizontal wells that came online in 2017 recovered as much in just 14 months.
Marcellus (PA) – update through April 2019
This interactive presentation contains the latest gas (and a little oil) production data, from all 8,915 horizontal wells in Pennsylvania that started producing from 2010 onward, through April. With March revisions in, it has become clear that another record was set, at 18.4 Bcf/d. April natural gas production was at a similar level. New wells recover on average more than 4 Bcf of gas in the first 2 years on production (‘Well quality’ tab). It took each of the ~1,300 horizontal wells, that began production in 2013, more than 5 years to reach that level.
Marcellus (PA) – update through March 2019
Gas production in Pennsylvania dropped by a small amount in March, but remained close to January’s record output, at 18.2 Bcf/d. In the first quarter of this year, 147 wells started production, almost unchanged from a year earlier (142).
Marcellus (PA) – update through February 2019
Gas production in Pennsylvania fell by 1% m-o-m in February to 18.1 Bcf/d, after setting a new record in January. Compared with a year earlier, this was just over 2 Bcf/d higher.
