Niobrara Shale - Devon Energy (DVN)

By Tim - http://oilshalegas.com

Devon Energy (DVN) is currently drilling for oil in the Niobrara Shale Formation located in Colorado and Wyoming.

In the Niobrara, industry results to date have been mixed and somewhat challenged in some areas, but we are still in the early stages of evaluating our acreage. However, we recently completed our first well in the Turner formation on our Niobrara acreage with encouraging results. After being online for 22 days, the Waterbuck 2342 had averaged 427 barrels of oil equivalent per day. In addition to the Niobrara and Turner formations, we expect to drill Cordell, Mowry and Frontier wells in our Powder River and DJ Basin acreage this year. In total, we expect to have 35 wells drilled here by year end.

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Marcellus Shale: Lycoming, PA 2009 SWN

Today, 2/27/09, Southwestern Energy ( SWN ) has announced that they have acquired acreage through mineral rights leasing in Pennsylvania regarding the Marcellus Shale.

In the first quarter of 2009, the company purchased approximately 21,715 net acres in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, for approximately $8.2 million. As a result, Southwestern currently has approximately 137,000 net undeveloped acres in Pennsylvania under which it believes the Marcellus Shale is prospective.

http://www.swn.com/operations/new.ventures.asp

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Haynesville Shale: XTO Energy 2009 Panola County

XTO Energy has come out with earnings today, 2/19/09, and updated investors on its haynesville shale operations. XTO talks about its East Texas properties below.

From Seeking Alpa

We drilled first Haynesville shale well in western Panola County, the New Horizon's number one that came in at 8.5 million a day, that is not an IP, that well averaged over 8 million a day for the first 15 days. It's currently offline because of the DCP Cartage flat (ph) issue, should be back up next week.

We believe that well from the way we're choking and holding our performance would have made over 8 million a day for the first month. If you look at the Haynesville wells you are seeing some that have 15 million a day, first month, you are seeing a lot that are 45 million a day first month sales. So, I would say this well as far west as it is, averaging 8 million a day is a good precursor for where our acreage is going to be plenty good on the Texas side

And last but not least, we have had an extension area of south of Bald Prairie and Robertson County that we have been working on for two or three years, have increased our position here to almost 80,000 net acres and have started in earnest to drill development wells down there and had two wells coming at 6 million a day in the quarter from the land and Bossier and that gives us lot of hope and belief that area will pan out to be a major growth area, of course in future.

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