Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Your first question comes from the line of Joseph Allman.
Joseph Allman - JPMorgan
Dan, I know it's early days in the Marcellus for these horizontals, these four wells, but what would be your best guess at this point in terms of EURs that you are seeing?
Dan Dinges
We are seeing right now with, again as you mentioned, kind of an early time curves, but we are seeing four plus EURs on these wells.
Joseph Allman - JPMorgan
Then, what is your interpretation in terms of the lower than expected declines? And would you expect to try to open some of these wells up some more and potentially get higher initial rates and you are thinking that will lead to some steeper declines closer to the model?
Dan Dinges
I will let Mike answer that. We think we are prudent in the way we are handling the wells. Again, early time data first wells up in a new area, it was a significantly remote area with our discovery well only being the sixth well ever drilled in that part of the woods.
So, we are handling the wells prudently and we haven't just absolutely opened the wells up to atmosphere, because we want to keep our frac sand in place. We don't want to damage the wells, close up any efficiency of our fracs.
So, we think the way we are bringing these wells online that we are being prudent about it, but as we get deeper into the completions, we are going to be trying different things.
Mike Walen
Yes, Joe. I think Dan is right on there. We have apparently hit some very good rock with some excellent reservoir pressure. The rock is very thick, probably the thickest part of the Marcellus in the trend. What we are concerned about as Dan mentioned is keeping our frac sand in place.
We have not had any problems to-date with that issue, but we want to make sure that it doesn't happen, and so we are handling these wells gently. Since it is a new play for us, we don't really want to open these wells up for and get the big flash IPs and to potentially hurt the wellbore. So, that's kind of our strategy going forward, and I think as we get more history then we can address that issue.
Joseph Allman - JPMorgan
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