Niobrara Shale

… companies recently touting the Niobrara 's resource potential in Wattenberg ..... focused on producing liquids from the Niobrara shale (see map, OGJ, Sept. 5, 2011, p. 28). By one estimate, the Niobrara already produced more than 700 …

… drilling due to the horizontal Niobrara shale oil play. Various operators have ..... kicked off the present horizontal Niobrara play with the Jake well in 1 ..... naturally fractured areas of the Niobrara shale ,” Parker said.

… Fort Worth, revealed sustained Niobrara production rates of more than 500 ..... effective in the Green River Basin Niobrara shale oil play, has now been demonstrated ..... Green River basin as having target Niobrara oil pay sections in four benches …

… acreage position that it considers prospective for Niobrara shale oil. Barrett completed its first horizontal exploratory ..... a 3,200-ft lateral into the lower bench of the Niobrara shale at 8,000 ft true vertical depth. The McRae Gap well …

… to spud its first long-lateral Niobrara shale well in December 2010 in northern ..... in the Newton 1-9H, the first Niobrara well permitted for 1,280-acre ..... Continental is permitting more Niobrara wells in northern Colorado and …

… Florence oil field in Fremont County. Sellers are Newmont Mining Corp., Cimarex Energy Co., and Prize Energy Corp. Niobrara shale oil production surrounds the tract. Aus-Tex will control no less than an 85% working interest and a 65% net revenue …

… estimates its net reserves in Wattenberg and Niobrara at 2.1 billion boe. That estimate ..... to analysts. "We really believe the Niobrara has evolved into a top-tier oil play ..... plans to spend 60% of it to accelerate Niobrara oil and Marcellus wet gas production …

… horizontal drilling results in the emerging Niobrara play in giant Wattenberg field in the ..... Petroleum Corp. said its well results in the Niobrara and Codell formations indicate excellent ..... equivalent, and Noble Energy Inc. said its Niobrara activities have revealed an estimated …