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New York Herkimer sand gas play to expand

02/15/2010
Norse Energy Corp. ASA, Oslo, has identified 300 locations on seismic that could be prospective for gas in fractured Silurian Herkimer sandstone in central New York state.The total play could ultimately recover 500 bcf of gas, the company said.Norse Energy expects to drill 30 horizontal Herkimer wells in 2010 to double its yearend 2009 production to 24 MMcfd by the end of the year. Several wells await connection in early 2010 to a gathering system in Chenango County near Norwich (OGJ Online, Oct. 13, 2008).Norse Energy, which has been drilling in New York since 1996, holds 180,000 acres leases of which 130,000 it judges to have potential in Ordovician Utica shale and Devonian Marcellus sh...
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