Meramec

Houston’s Gastar Exploration Inc. expects to have initial flowback within the next two weeks from its second Meramec well in Kingfisher County, OK, which it completed with 34 hydraulic fracture stages.

Days before it expects to close on a deal to sell all of its assets in the Appalachian Basin and become a pure play operator in the stacked Midcontinent, Gastar Exploration Inc. said it plans to sell about one quarter of its assets in Oklahoma and will suspend its monthly cash dividend in order to maintain liquidity.

Gastar Exploration Inc. said it plans to spud a second test well targeting the Meramec formation within Oklahoma’s stacked shale plays after encouraging results from its first test well showed the formation extended farther to the northeast than previously thought.

Gastar Exploration Inc.’s first operated test in the Meramec formation within Oklahoma’s stacked reservoirs appears to extend the definition of one of the most promising plays in the U.S. onshore.

A new multi-horizon oil play it has discovered in the Anadarko Basin offers wells with estimated ultimate recoveries (EUR) of 800,000-1 million boe, said Newfield Exploration Co., which has named the Oklahoma play STACK.