Poland: Gas flare lit at Baltic shale well

3Legs Resources PLC said it completed a multistage hydraulic frac treatment and lit a flare as it began flow-testing natural gas from its Lebien LE-2H horizontal shale well on the Lebork license in the Baltic basin Poland.
Sept. 8, 2011

3Legs Resources PLC said it completed a multistage hydraulic frac treatment and lit a flare as it began flow-testing natural gas from its Lebien LE-2H horizontal shale well on the Lebork license in the Baltic basin Poland.

The company said it is also near an announcement concerning its Warblino LE-1H horizontal well on the Damnica license 25 miles west. The wells are designed to test Lower Paleozoic shales.

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Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.

Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.

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