One week after revising its estimate for third quarter production, Gulfport Energy Corp. announced Tuesday that it has placed three wells targeting the Utica Shale in Ohio into production by connecting them to sales pipelines.

Oklahoma City-based Gulfport said all three wells are located in Harrison County, OH. The first, Wagner 3-28H, produced at an average seven-day sales rate of 9.7 MMcf/d of natural gas (measuring 1,214 Btu), 214 b/d of condensate and 1,067 b/d of natural gas liquids (NGL), assuming full ethane recovery and a natural gas shrink of 18%, or 2,607 boe/d.

The second well, Clay 3-4H, produced at an average seven-day sales rate of 2.5 MMcf/d of gas (1,258 Btu), 392 b/d of condensate and 323 b/d of NGLs, assuming full ethane recovery and a natural gas shrink of 27%, or 1,019 boe/d.

Lyon 3-27H, the third well Gulfport brought online, produced at an average seven-day sales rate of 2.0 MMcf/d of gas (1,271 Btu), 477 b/d of condensate and 274 b/d of NGLs, assuming full ethane recovery and a natural gas shrink of 21%, or 1,014 boe/d.

According to Gulfport, the Wagner, Clay and Lyon wells were drilled to true vertical depths of 8,535, 7,932 and 7,459 feet, respectively, with horizontal laterals of 6,867, 6,715 and 7,004 feet. The Wagner and Clay wells were hydraulically fractured (fracked) and completed with a minimal use of linear gels, while the Lyon well was fracked and completed with a linear gel, but not with crosslink gels.

Gulfport said that assuming full ethane recovery, an additional 110 bbl of NGLs per MMcf of gas could be produced from the Wagner well, resulting in a natural gas shrink of 18%. In ethane rejection mode, the well could yield an additional 41 bbl of NGLs/MMcf, resulting in a natural gas shrink of 8%.

At the Clay well, Gulfport said full ethane recovery could produce an additional 129 bbl of NGLs/MMcf, resulting in a natural gas shrink of 27%. In ethane rejection mode, the well could yield another 55 bbl of NGLs/MMcf, thereby posting a natural gas shrink of 14%.

The Lyon well, Gulfport said, could produce another 137 bbl of NGLs/MMcf with full ethane recovery, or 61 bbl of NGLs/MMcf in ethane rejection mode, with natural gas shrink of 21% or 8%, respectively.

Last week, Gulfport lowered its 3Q2013 production guidance from 14,000-15,000 boe/d to 12,250-12,750 boe/d, citing pipeline infrastructure delays and higher than expected downtime from simultaneous operations. The company said one of its wells, Irons 1-4H, was supposed to be flowing into a sales pipeline by mid-August, but permitting delays with a third party midstream provider delayed the well from coming online until the end of October. Gulfport said its full-year production guidance for 2013, 5-6 million boe, remained unchanged.

Production from the Wagner, Clay and Lyon wells are smaller than two wells the company brought online during the summer. In July, Gulfport said its McCort 1-28H well had an average seven-day sales rate of 9.6 MMcf/d and 835 b/d of NGLs, assuming full ethane recovery and a gas shrink of 14%, or 2,218 boe/d. A second well, McCort 2-28H, posted an average gross seven-day sales rate of 11.6 MMcf/d of gas and 21 b/d of condensate (see Shale Daily, July 24).

Gulfport has about 62,500 net acres in the Utica Shale, according to company documents. Chesapeake Energy is the largest leaseholder in the Utica, with approximately one million net acres, followed by EnerVest (760,000 net acres), Chevron (600,000 net acres), Hess Corp. (195,000 net acres) and Range Resources (190,000 net acres).