M-U Drillers Increasingly Shut-In Wells to Boost Gas Price, Profits
By now it's a cliche to say that 2020 has been an exceptional year--and not in a good way. For the first time in our memory of writing MDN, we witnessed widespread curtailments or "shut-ins" of wells in the Marcellus/Utica during 2020. That is, drillers voluntarily turned the values off and flowed less gas in a bid to (a) not sell the gas at prices that don't return a profit, and (b) drive up the price of gas (see M-U Shut-ins Help Keep Regional Gas Prices Stableā¦for Now). Will that trend continue in 2021?
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