Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) The first question comes from [Scott Billmouth].
Unidentified Analyst
Hey, guys. Quick question, can you give some guidance on the tertiary production ramp up throughout the year?
Tracy Evans
Well, we are keeping our average rate confirmed at 24,500 barrels per day and the actual forecast actually was relatively flat during the first part of the year with a ramp up during the third and fourth quarters. So we are probably slightly ahead of schedule, but until we see more confirmation of maintaining above schedule we just don't feel comfortable increasing our average rate at this point in time.
Unidentified Analyst
And the drivers of the back half of the year are obviously Heidelberg coming online and what else?
Tracy Evans
Cranfield and Heidelberg are two areas that we expect to see, relatively on a percentage basis, ramp ups in production and then also Lockhart as well, and Tinsley also. We expect it to continue to ramp up.
Mark Allen
It is a pretty proportional increase each quarter at this point. It's not too far from being a straight line.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Nicholas Pope.
Nicholas Pope - Dahlman Rose & Company
When you look at pricing realizations, I guess what we are all seeing on the gas side for Barnett and what do you all think that is going to be going forward here for the rest of the year?
Phil Rykhoek
We have still been running $0.75 to $1 in the Barnett; it really hasn't improved too much even though prices have come down. So at this point you just have to assume it's going to stay at that level.
Nicholas Pope - Dahlman Rose & Company
All right. Just jumping around here, but looking at Mallalieu, I guess the operational issues that you all have been seeing there, do you all expect it to kind of flatten out at some point? When do you all expect to see Mallalieu kind of responding to some of the work you are all doing their on the surface side?
Tracy Evans
The issue that we have there is, obviously, we've reached recycle capacity at the facility. So at that point in time you can only handle a fixed amount of CO2 and so we have to manage that on a daily basis of bringing wells out or shutting wells in to maintain a relatively constant CO2 rate there.
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