Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Darren Horowitz - Raymond James.
Darren Horowitz - Raymond James
Barry, a couple of operations questions for you. Do you spoke about gathering in the Barnett? Can you give us a little bit more color on discussions with producers relating the volume growth in 2010 and give us a sense when the inventory wells that have been drilled, but not yet completed and hooked up?
Barry Davis
Darren, we’ll obviously this year in 2009, we’ve seen significantly pure wells drilled and what we’ve seen in 2008 for example and certainly reflect the fact that we’ve had a rig count, it’s averaged 70 to 75 rigs, compared to 180 rigs or so in 2008. The interesting thing and you referenced, it is the number of wells that have been drilled and not completed or the inventory of wells that have been built up there.
The only specific number that we would reference is a number out of the Davan call yesterday, where they referenced 150 wells in inventory that had not been completed. I think if you do a survey of all of the producers, the major producers operating in there, what you would find is that the aggregate inventory is probably a multiple of what Davan has indicated.
So, we believe that there’s great potential for volumes to respond pretty quickly, when we see a price scenario that would call those producers to go ahead and complete those wells and get them turned into the line. So our forecast for 2010 does in fact show us with a slight increasing volume over where we are at this point and that reflects both an increase and drilling on our acreage as well as the potential for some of those inventory wells to be completed.
Darren Horowitz - Raymond James
Switching over to the LIG system, where is throughput currently and are there any low capital intensity efficiency projects that you can explore?
Barry Davis
Absolutely, Darren and volumes today are about 900 million a day, which is off slightly from what we’ve seen in comparative periods, but let me emphasize as I did in the prepared remarks that the volumes that we have seen decline have been very low margin volumes that where we were taking gas off system to take advantage of a arbitrage if you will across the system. We’ve lost some of that as we’ve seen base is flatten, but relatively to the margins that we’re picking up on the Haynesville volumes, it has a very small impact.
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