Sehr interessant, vorallem in Ergänzung zum Lageplan #1173:
Quelle: http://www.thedailycitizen.com/articles/2007/05/..._stories/top01.txt
SEECO has big gas plans
Monday, May 14, 2007 6:34 PM CDT White County is focus of Fayetteville Shale activity
By Warren Watkins, The Daily Citizen
SEECO, Inc., the Arkansas subsidiary of the Southwestern Energy Company, now has drilled 20 natural gas wells in White County, with 13 of them producing.
Through April 30, Southwestern, with headquarters in Houston, Texas, has drilled a total of 263 wells in the Fayetteville Shale play in eight Arkansas counties.
“We have a total of about 40 permitted wells in White County,” John Thaeler, senior vice president of SEECO said. “We have drilled 20 to total depth, and 13 are currently producing. The remaining seven are in some stage of completion.”
(Anm: keine einzige Fehlbohrung - und das 5 bis max. 15 Meilen entfernt von Activas 80'000 Acres grosse Area of Mutual Interest)
Of the 20 SEECO has drilled, five were shallow wells and 15 were deep, Thaeler said.
From headquarters in Houston, Texas, Southwestern Energy Company traces its roots to 1929 as a local natural gas distribution company in Arkansas and today is involved in natural gas and oil exploration, development and production in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana.
Subsidiaries of Southwestern Energy Company are the Southwestern Energy Production Company, SEECO (with headquarters in Fayetteville), Southwestern Energy Services Company, DeSoto Gathering Company (Conway) and Arkansas Western Gas Company (Fayetteville).
“We've been very satisfied with the results of the wells in White County,” Thaeler said. “We have a very good relationship with the stakeholders, and we're working well with local officials.”
Thaeler said White County is unique in the Fayetteville Shale play.
“The interesting thing about White County, is that the county has the most competition in the gas industry of anywhere in the Fayetteville Shale play,” Thaeler said. “Chesapeake Energy is a large operator with a large presence in White County.”
Hallwood Petroleum is also developing wells in the area.
“Everybody is in the process of ramping up,” Thaeler said. “Chesapeake went from three drilling rigs to 10, and Southwestern Energy has five drilling rigs in the county, two of which are surface rigs and three the deeper big rigs that drill the horizontal portions of the wells.”
Royalty checks from the producing SEECO wells in White County should be in the mail soon to stakeholders, if they haven't arrived already.
“There is a gap between starting initial production and issuing checks,” Thaeler said, “which is the production reporting period.”
Some royalty checks go out quicker than others, depending on the complexity of the royalty situation.
SEECO oversees its Fayetteville Shale operations from its Conway headquarters, and has a large field office in Damascus, on Highway 124, just five miles from the White County line.
The company has 450 employees working within the Fayetteville Shale in Arkansas.
“The long term projections predicted a substantial economic impact on Arkansas from the development of the Fayetteville Shale,” Thaeler said. “Southwest Energy is very proud that we originated the Fayetteville Shale Play.
“We take our role in the community very seriously,” Thaeler added. “We've very proactive in community relationships and in our corporate giving program.”
The company has pledged $200,000 to the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton (UACCM) to establish a petroleum technology program, and supports the Fayetteville Shale Scholarship Fund, which awards scholarships to students preparing for careers in Arkansas' oil and gas industry.
“We're very proactive on the environmental side, supporting a quail restoration project in Arkansas, which is just one example of how seriously we take our commitment of the community and the environment,” Thaeler said. “We're the right people doing the right thing for the community and shareholders.”
A representative of SEECO will be at ta chamber of commerce coffee meeting Wednesday at 7:45 a.m. to answer questions, as will a representative from Hallwood Petroleum.
The meeting will be on the second floor of the American Heritage building at Harding University.
For more information call the Searcy Regional Chamber of Commerce at 268-2458.
Southwestern Energy Company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange as SWN. For more information about the company or its subsidiaries go to swn.com. |