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Re: cottonwhite post# 142

Friday, 01/23/2009 9:39:23 AM

Friday, January 23, 2009 9:39:23 AM

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This tells you everything about stripper wells. I found in Wikipedia.

A stripper well or marginal well is an oil or gas well that is nearing the end of its economically useful life. In the United States of America a "stripper" gas well is defined by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission as one that produces 60,000 cubic feet (1,700 m3) or less of gas per day at its maximum flow rate; the Internal Revenue Service, for tax purposes, uses a threshold of 75,000 cubic feet (2,100 m3) per day. Oil wells are generally classified as stripper wells when they produce ten barrels per day or less for any twelve month period.

Economical importance

In the United States of America, one out of every six barrels of crude oil produced comes from a marginal oil well, and over 78 percent of the total number of U.S. oil wells are now classified as such. There are over 400,000 of these wells in the United States, and together they produce nearly 900,000 barrels (143,000 m3) of oil per day, 15 percent of U.S. production.

Additionally, as of 2005, there are more than 260,000 natural gas stripper wells in the lower 48 states. Together they account for over 1.4 trillion cubic feet (40 km3) of natural gas, or about 7 percent of the natural gas produced in the lower 48 states. Stripper wells are more common in older oil and gas producing regions, most notably in Appalachia, Texas and Oklahoma.
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