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OGJ FOCUS: Fall may be imminent for Kansas Cherokee basin coalbed gas output

02/08/2010
By K. David Newell
Natural gas production in the Kansas portion of the Cherokee basin (southeastern Kansas) for 2008 was 49.1 bcf (Fig. 1).This constitutes about 13% of the annual gas production in the state, and for the last few years it has offset gas production declines elsewhere in Kansas.The great majority of Cherokee basin gas production is now coalbed methane (CBM). The major producers are Quest Energy LLC (23.2 bcf in 2008); Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Co. LLC (10.5 bcf); and Layne Energy Operating LLC (6.1 bcf).Production declines in CBM wells depend on the age of the well, with relatively steep initial declines that stabilize to low rates of decline in older wells. The average yearly production ...
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