石油设备网讯 据普氏能源资讯休斯顿4月8日消息 最近一家私营石油和天然气生产商的收购可能是早期迹象表明，阿巴拉契亚地区的运营商仍然对从宾夕法尼亚州西部的Utica页岩井开采天然气产生气体的兴趣，尽管这种潜在影响的大规模开发还需要几年时间。
本月早些时候，Pin Oak能源合伙公司完成了宾夕法尼亚州西北部约4.3万英亩的壳牌子公司SWEPI LP的收购，Pin Oak认为该公司有望开发Utica页岩。
Pin Oak联合创始人兼首席业务发展官Mark Van Tyne表示，该交易增强了该公司在这一项目中的核心竞争力。
“我们清楚地了解 Utica 和Marcellus的影响和性质，”该负责人在一次采访中称：“我们的投资组合包括常规油井，主要在俄亥俄州以及俄亥俄州和宾夕法尼亚州的Utica 和Marcellus油井。”
此次收购的结果是，Pin Oak 能源公司将其在宾夕法尼亚东北部Mercer、Crawford和Venango县的Utica油田的净面积分别提高至6万英亩、5500英亩和7100英亩。
此次收购还包括已钻井完成的Utica水平页岩井，以及之前建造但未钻井的井垫。
迄今为止，几乎所有针对Utica页岩的钻探都集中在俄亥俄州东部的几个县，靠近该州与宾夕法尼亚州和西弗吉尼亚州的边界。这些油井绝大多数集中在俄亥俄州东部的9个县，从北部边缘的科伦比亚纳县一直延伸到南部的Noble和Monroe。
相比之下，在宾夕法尼亚州西部进行的大部分钻探活动集中在该州西南角的三个区域，即华盛顿、格林和威斯特摩兰，生产商目标是较浅的Marcellus页岩地层。
吴慧丹 摘译自 普氏能源资讯
原文如下：
Extending Utica gas play into Pennsylvania remains possibility
A recent acquisition by a privately held oil and natural gas producer might be an early indication that Appalachian operators remain interested in producing gas from western Pennsylvania wells targeting the Utica shale, although large-scale development of that potential play remains years away.
Pin Oak Energy Partners earlier this month closed on the acquisition from Shell affiliate SWEPI LP of about 43,000 acres in northwestern Pennsylvania, which Pin Oak views as prospective for Utica shale development.
Mark Van Tyne, Pin Oak cofounder and chief business development officer, said the deal bolsters the company's deep Utica rights in both the wet gas and oil windows of the play.
"We clearly understand the impact and nature of the Utica and Marcellus," Van Tyne said in an interview. "Our portfolio is a mix of conventional wells, predominantly in Ohio, and Utica and Marcellus wells across Ohio and Pennsylvania."
As a result of the acquisition, Pin Oak Energy increased its net acreage position in the deep Utica play in the northeastern Pennsylvania counties of Mercer, Crawford and Venango to a total of 60,000, 5,500 and 7,100, respectively.
The acquisition also includes drilled and completed, but not online, horizontal Utica Shale wells along with previously built, but not drilled, well pads.
To date, virtually all of the drilling targeting the Utica Shale is been concentrated in a few counties in eastern Ohio, close to the state's borders with Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The vast majority of these wells are concentrated in nine eastern Ohio counties, stretching from Columbiana County on the northern edge of the play to Noble and Monroe counties on the south.
In contrast, the bulk of drilling activity conducted in western Pennsylvania is concentrated in three counties in the southwestern corner of the state -- Washington, Greene, and Westmoreland -- where producers are targeting the shallower Marcellus shale formation.
