二十年前,Range 开启了 Marcellus 繁荣

Range Resources 掀起了阿巴拉契亚页岩热潮,而国内电力和液化天然气需求的上升可能引发该热潮的再次兴起。

2024 年 10 月,Range Resources 钻井平台位于宾夕法尼亚州西南部。(来源:Anthony Musmanno/Hart Energy)

宾夕法尼亚州华盛顿县的伦茨一号井似乎是彻底失败了。

Range Resources 公司已退休的地质副总裁比尔·扎戈尔斯基 (Bill Zagorski)。 (来源:Range Resources)

那是 2003 年,名不见经传的 Range Resources 地质学家比尔·扎戈尔斯基 (Bill Zagorski) 与这家新兴生产商合作,试图在宾夕法尼亚州西南部深度超过 8,000 英尺的地方开辟垂直天然气井,目标是开采下泥盆纪奥里斯卡尼砂岩和更深的志留纪洛克波特白云岩。

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Twenty Years Ago, Range Jumpstarted the Marcellus Boom

Range Resources launched the Appalachia shale rush, and rising domestic power and LNG demand can trigger it to boom again.

Drilling rig on location for Range Resources in southwestern Pennsylvania in October 2024. (Source: Anthony Musmanno/Hart Energy)

The Renz No. 1 well in Washington County, Pennsylvania, was an abject failure, or so it seemed.

Bill Zagorski, retired vice president of geology, Range Resources. (Source: Range Resources)

The year was 2003, and a little-known Range Resources geologist, Bill Zagorski, worked with the upstart producer trying to make vertical natural gas wells in southwestern Pennsylvania at depths of more than 8,000 ft, aiming for the Lower Devonian Oriskany Sandstone and the deeper Silurian Lockport Dolomite.

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