From Columbus Business First
Drillers keep pumping natural gas from eastern Ohio’s Utica shale, and Rice Energy Inc. continues to lead the way with big wells.
The Pennsylvania company continued its quarterly trend of owning the top well in the state. In the first quarter of 2016 Rice (NYSE:RICE) operated a well on its formidable Mohawk Warrior pad that pumped out 1.63 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
It’s the same well that claimed the top spot in the last quarter of 2015.
Twenty-three drillers produced a total of 329.5 billion cubic feet of gas in the first three months of 2016, according to new Ohio Department of Natural Resourcesfigures, up 8.7 percent from the prior quarter.
Oil production, however, fell to 5.5 million barrels from 6.3 million barrels in the previous quarter.
Here are the top gas wells from each driller, ranked in descending order.
- Rice Energy, Belmont County, Mohawk Warrior 12H, 1.63 billion cubic feet
- Ascent Resources, Belmont County, Smith A 1H-12, 1.35 billion cubic feet
- Antero Resources, Monroe County, Delong Unit 4H 1.3 billion cubic feet
- Eclipse Resources, Monroe County,Fuchs A 4H, 1.1 billion cubic feet
- Gulfport Energy, Belmont County, Lorna 2A, 1.08 billion cubic feet
- Consol Energy, Monroe County, Brewster SWITZ6HHSU, 1.03 billion cubic feet
- Chesapeake Energy, Jefferson County, Keystone Trust 34-10-3 10H, 935.4 million cubic feet
- Exxon Mobil, Belmont County, Kemper A Unit 1H, 882.4 million cubic feet
- EdgeMarc Energy, Monroe County, Moonraker 2-PPH, 822.7 million cubic feet
- Hess Ohio, Harrison County, Cadiz D 4H-8 811.2 million cubic feet
- Magnum Hunter Resources Corp., Monroe County, Stalder Unit A 3UH, 661.2 million cubic feet
- Hilcorp Energy, Columbiana County, Fairfield-Nolker 7H, 503.9 million cubic feet
