Energy Corporation of America
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Founded in 1963, Energy Corporation of America (ECA) is a privately held company that actively pursues the exploration, extraction, production and transportation of natural gas and oil, both in the United States and around the world. ECA owns and operates approximately 5,200 wells, 5,000 miles of pipeline, and 1,000,000 acres in North America alone.
ECA had been actively drilling since 2007 on 10,000 acres it controls in southwestern Pennsylvania's Greene County where it drilled its first horizontal well with an industry partner. It applied for a number of horizontal Marcellus shale drilling permits there during 2009. Some of ECA's locations mentioned on the permit applications included Greene and Cumberland Townships, Muddy and South Muddy Creeks, Whiteley Creek and Coal Run.
All told, by July, 2009 it had drilled 155 vertical and horizontal wells in Greene County. 12 had been Marcellus shale wells. ECA owned the working interest outright on almost all of its Marcellus wells. Those were producing anywhere from 500 Mcf/d to 3 Mmcf/d with very little condensate. ECA had two rigs operating in Greene County at a drilling depth of approximately 8,000 feet to reach the Marcellus shale formation. It had begun a three year drilling program there in March, 2009, and by July was producing in excess of 10 Mmcf/d of shale gas. The company planned to drill 1-2 horizontal wells per month up to a total of 75 over the next three years. It also has more than 40 miles of pipeline and sufficient interstate pipeline capacity to get its gas to market.
ECA made an announcement in mid-June, 2009 that it was soliciting interest in the expansion of its System 8000 pipeline gathering system for Marcellus shale gas in North Central West Virginia.
A September, 2009 press release noted that the company had completed three horizontal wells in Greene Co. All had been multi-stage fracs: 6, 8 and 9 stages. The first two wells were producing at the rate of 2.5 and 3.0 Mmcf/d, respectively. It was mentioned in an October press release that all three horizontal wells were producing at the rate of 6.7 Mmcf/d.
In October, 2009 ECA announced that it had begun pad drilling in Greene Co. with a three-well pad and a second pad with six wells. It had begun drilling its 5th horizontal well in the county as part of the three-well pad. It was in the process of drilling the vertical sections of the wells for the six-well pad. The wells were to be spaced 15 feet apart. The company was also in the process of fracture stimulating its fourth horizontal Greene Co. well. The announcement stated that ECA planned to utilize pad drilling as much as possible on future Greene wells.
A later October press release mentioned that ECA had completed a compression plant in Greene Co. The plant added the capacity of 15 Mmcf/d to the existing 5 Mmcf/d. It gave ECA the ability to deliver for sales a total of 20 Mmcf/d into its Texas Eastern Transmission pipeline interconnect. The compression station used Caterpillar natural gas-fired engines to power three 3-stage Ariel compressors as well as gas treatment equipment.
- John Mork is ECA's President and CEO.
- Michael S. Fletcher is CFO.
- Donald C. Supcoe is Senior Vice President and General Counsel.
- Paul A. Sullivan is Vice President of Exploration.
- Mark Fry is an ECA spokesman.
