Question-and-Answer Session
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Rebecca Followill representing Tudor Pickering. Please proceed.
Rebecca Followill - Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. Securities, Inc
Hi on the Marcellus, Matt are you guys going to bring in your own rig for this drilling and...
Matthew D. Cabell - President, Seneca Resources Corporation
Yes.
Rebecca Followill - Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. Securities, Inc
Okay. Just one rig or you going to bring in two rigs or kind of put different timings of that, is it the summer, this fall?
Matthew D. Cabell - President, Seneca Resources Corporation
Just one and the timing is anticipated to be this summer.
Rebecca Followill - Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. Securities, Inc
Okay. Okay thank you.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Rick Shulman [ph] representing GLG Partners. Please proceed.
Unidentified Analyst
Hi guys how are you?
Unidentified Company Representative
Good.
Unidentified Analyst
My question is with regard to just the infrastructure in place and infrastructure needs within Appalachia, I mean you have... I don't even know how many companies talking about, not only drilling up current acreage that is proved but also all this Marcellus acreage now being drilled up and proven out. And there is hundreds of thousands, if not millions and even tens of millions of acres of this Marcellus, that needs to get drilled. Is there... how fast does that infrastructure get built? Is there going to be bottleneck and how much more is that going to wind up, costing for you guys and then who eventually, ones that building out, all that the gas gathering and pipeline infrastructure and stuff like that?
David F. Smith - President and Chief Executive Officer
Rick let me take a shot at it, few of those questions anyway. I think there are likely to be bottlenecks, I think you see that with some of the existing producers who are producing a fair amount of gas in Appalachian with regard to who is going to build it, we have set up and we plan on developing a mid stream company. We have all the legal work done. Our President of that company Duane Wassum has been spending a fair amount of time talking to a number of producers.
Obviously those are... that subject to confidentiality agreements. So we see it, as a business opportunity for us to put gathering and to get to the pipeline. So and it will add us, substantial... substantially to the cost of getting the gas out of Appalachian. There is no question that a lot of Marcellus, is in areas where there aren't significant pipelines. But at least from National Fuel's perspective, we are looking at it, as a business opportunity and we are actively pursuing that now.
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