WV Shale Well Initial Production Rates Jump 20% in One Year

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Of the three Marcellus/Utica producing states--Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia--only WV reports well production on an annual basis. Not frequent enough! In July WV published production numbers for 2016. The exciting news is that on average, initial production (IP) of Marcellus/Utica shale wells surged 20% over 2015. IP is the amount of gas (or oil or NGLs) flowing from a well. However, when you dig into the numbers, you learn that IP rates did not go up universally across the state. Some counties had big increases, other counties went the other way. The same with drillers. Some drillers (like Antero) saw a big bump up in average IP rates. Other's (like Southwestern Energy) saw a dip in IP rates from 2015 to 2016...

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