The Utica Shale Explained: Two Reservoir Engineers Reveal Why Longer Laterals are Trending
Welcome to ComboCast, the new podcast from ComboCurve.
In just two years, the median lateral length in the Utica Shale leapt from 12,600 feet to 14,400 and in Q2 2025 is up to 17,238 FT. But do these "monster wells" actually hold up economically?
In this inaugural episode, Senior Technical Engineers Dylan Breaux and Ben Gonzalez put that question to the test, live in ComboCurve. Pulling public data on Ascent's Utica wells, they run auto-forecasts, build type curves, and tackle the tricky part:
How do you forecast brand new extended reach laterals that have barely six months of production?…
The skinny
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