Utica Shale
United States
United States
| Location | St. Lawrence Lowlands of Quebec, Canada, Montreal, and Northern New York |
| Assessment Year | 2012 |
| Reserves | 38TCF undiscovered gas |
| Thickness | 1,000 feet |
| Formation Details | The Utica Shale is a rock unit located a few thousand feet below the Marcellus Shale. It also has the potential to become an enormous natural gas resource. The Utica Shale is thicker than the Marcellus, it is more geographically extensive and it has already proven its ability to support commercial production. The potential source rock portion of the Utica Shale is extensive. In the United States it underlies portions of Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia. It is also present beneath parts of Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and part of Ontario, Canada. |
| Notes | Estimates for Natural Gas in the Utica Shale Deposit Field ranges between 2 trillion cubic feet to up to a whopping 69 trillion cubic feet of Natural Gas. |
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Projects and Work Interests
| 1st NRG Operations in Utica Shale | |
| 1st NRG acquires approximately 7,150 acres to develop Utica shale in eastern Ohio. | |
| Anadarko Operations in Utica Shale | |
| Anadarko Petroleum holds 390,000-acre (gross) position in the Utica Shale in eastern Ohio, Appalachian basin. The Utica horizontal pilot wells in exploration program are in different status as the fol... | |
| Antero Operations in Utica Shale | |
| Antero has over 102,000 net acres leasehold, targeting Utica Shale located in Appalachian Basin, Ohio. Antero has drilled and completed three horizontal Utica Shale wells. | |
| Chesapeake/Total Operations in Utica Shale (Low) | |
| The JV partners Chesapeake, Total and EnerVest had 2476000 net acres, Total had 619,000 net acres in this JV. The JV area covers all a portion of 10 counties in eastern Ohio (JV AMI). | |
| Consol Energy/Hess Operations in Utica Shale | |
| Consol and its JV partner Hess had 200,000 acres targeting Utica Shale assets. Hess is the operator in approximately 80,000 acres, where is located in Belmont, Harrison, Guernsey and Jefferson countie... | |
| Encana Operations in Utica/Collingwood Shale | |
| Encana had 432,000 undeveloped net acres, targeting the combined Utica and Collingwood shale formations, which located in Michigan play. Encana participated in the following well, the Excelsior 1-25 w... | |
| EQT Operations in Utica Shale (Low) | |
| EQT has approximately 16,000 gross acres (13,600 net acres) in the liquids rich Utica Shale development area in Ohio. During 2008, EQT drilled its first exploratory vertical Utica well, which hasn’t b... | |
| Gulfport Energy Operations in Utica Shale | |
| Gulfport had approximately 185,000 gross (184,000 net) acres under lease, targeting Utica shale in Ohio. Gulfport participated in the following wells: Boy Scout 1-33H, Boy Scout 5-33H, Ryser 1-25H, Gr... | |
| Halcon Operations in Utica & Point Pleasant Formation (Medium) | |
| Halcon Resources has approximately 140,000 net acres, which is located in Trumbull and Mahoning Counties, Ohio and Mercer, Venango and Crawford Counties, Pennsylvania. | |
| Magnum Hunter Operations in Utica Shale (Appalachia Basin) | |
| The project targets the Utica Shale formation, which is located in Noble, Monroe and Washington counties in Ohio and Tyler, Pleasants counties in West Virginia. Magnum Hunter has mineral rights on abo... | |
| PDC Energy Operations in Utica Shale | |
| PDC targets the wet gas and oil phases of the Utica play, which is located in Noble, Morgan, Guernsey and northern Washington counties and acquired the rights for up to 45,000 net acres in this prospe... | |
| Range Resources Operations in Utica | |
| Range holds approximately 400,000 net acres in the southwest Pennsylvania area which it considers as prospective for the Utica/Point Pleasant. The Utica shale formation lies below the Marcellus shale ... | |
| Rex Energy Operations in Utica Shale (Low) | |
| Rex Energy targets Utica Shale located in Warrior North Prospect in Carroll County, where the Company has 16,200 gross / 16,000 net acres in Carroll County, OH. Also in Warrior South Prospect, where ... | |
| Talisman Operations in Utica Shale (low) | |
| Talisman targets Utica Shale located in the Quebec lowlands along the St. Lawrence River, where Talisman holds 753,000 net acres. Talisman drilled two horizontal wells in Quebec during 2009. | |
