Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question is from David Kistler with Simmons & Company. Please state your question.
David Kistler - Simmons & Company
Wanted to touch real quickly on the well results in the Fayetteville. This last quarter we had a couple of wells that showed [flattish] ITs and slightly decreasing 30 and 60 day rates. I am guessing that's tied into the curtailment, but can you give us any additional color on that?
Harold Korell
You hit it pretty much on the head. As happened in the first quarter of this year, when we had some curtailments from last quarter of last year, there is a lot of play in the numbers because of the shut ins, and so by far the biggest part of that is that the other thing just to note if you compare what we did on the lateral links, lateral links is almost the same quarter-over-quarter, how much we fracked in the stages that we fracked and the (inaudible) intervals were almost identical on the wells, so part of that was us just testing spacing also on not varying some of those other parameters as much.
David Kistler - Simmons & Company
And then I guess kind of following down that line of questions, on the wells that IPs over 6 million a day. Can you talk about the lateral length that were there and the [frac] stages that were involved and what kind of learning might be taking place and how you think about then deploying capital and what not if that is a trend that you think you continue?
Harold Korell
The wells that we had that were over 6 million a day averaged a little over 4,500 foot lateral links, and there is actually a range on there from just under 4,000 to about 6,200 foot, the longest well we drilled to date lateral is not on production yet, but it is just over 8,000 feet. So, it’s not an issue of the length being physically able to drill it, it really comes down to not having any what we call white space, being able to cover the map with laterals and get as much as we can out of the ground. It looks like somewhere in the 4,500 to 6,000 foot range is where we're going to end up on those. You will see it continue to creep up over time. To do that though, and do it consistently with all of our wells we do need to have some rules changes with the government. Everything we have done that's basically greater than 4,500 feet, has taken an exception rule and we're working right now with the state to get past the exceptions to be able to do it on a regular basis.
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