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Cherry Creek Niobrara Gas Area--Oil and Gas Production

Additional information on this field is available in the Digital Petroleum Atlas
Discoveries currently listed:
Operator: Shakespeare Oil
Lease: Rudolph Walter 'OWWO', Well 1
Location: 3S-41W: NE NE 9
Discovery Date: 01/13/1977
Producing zone: Niobrara Gas 		Operator: Murfin Drilling
Lease: Shay, Well 1-3
Location: 3S-39W: C SW NE 3
Discovery Date: 11/08/1978
Producing zone: Niobrara Gas

Counties: Cheyenne
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Producing Formations
Name Depth (ft.) Thickness (ft.) Oil Grav Produces Temperature
NIOBRARA 1300 14 - Gas -

Comments: Benkleman and Cherry Creek East combined into Cherry Creek Niobrara Gas Area, 11/03/1977.; Orlando East combined into Cherry Creek Niobrara Gas Area, 4/5/2006.
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Production Plots

Year Oil Gas
Production
(bbls)		 Wells Cumulative
(bbls)		 Production
(mcf)		 Wells Cumulative
(mcf)
1978 - - 0 - 2 6,927
1979 - - 0 59,069 8 65,996
1980 - - 0 250,619 25 316,615
1981 - - 0 219,403 30 536,018
1982 - - 0 207,111 32 743,129
1983 - - 0 140,541 32 883,670
1984 - - 0 501,271 42 1,384,941
1985 - - 0 250,579 42 1,635,520
1986 - - 0 224,225 45 1,859,745
1987 - - 0 190,840 36 2,050,585
1988 - - 0 210,402 40 2,260,987
1989 - - 0 313,444 42 2,574,431
1990 - - 0 252,608 40 2,827,039
1991 - - 0 498,523 56 3,325,562
1992 - - 0 567,362 56 3,892,924
1993 - - 0 535,267 59 4,428,191
1994 - - 0 532,639 61 4,960,830
1995 - - 0 474,998 49 5,435,828
1996 - - 0 416,708 47 5,852,536
1997 - - 0 363,234 54 6,215,770
1998 - - 0 312,177 51 6,527,947
1999 - - 0 388,061 61 6,916,008
2000 - - 0 391,159 74 7,307,167
2001 - - 0 546,432 128 7,853,599
2002 - - 0 1,137,762 130 8,991,361
2003 - - 0 1,503,563 167 10,494,924
2004 - - 0 1,896,201 222 12,391,125
2005 - - 0 2,003,880 248 14,395,005
2006 - - 0 2,121,071 273 16,516,076
2007 - - 0 2,308,183 331 18,824,259
2008 - - 0 4,204,292 572 23,028,551
2009 - - 0 4,788,786 611 27,817,337
2010 - - 0 4,485,470 639 32,302,807
2011 - - 0 4,545,003 660 36,847,810
2012 - - 0 3,890,609 658 40,738,419
2013 - - 0 3,254,678 619 43,993,097
2014 - - 0 2,913,235 574 46,906,332
2015 1,099 2 1,099 2,608,922 571 49,515,254
2016 1,562 2 2,661 2,048,879 577 51,564,133
2017 - - 2,661 1,932,216 564 53,496,349
2018 944 2 3,605 1,617,631 557 55,113,980
2019 1,077 2 4,682 1,458,686 535 56,572,666
2020 3,698 2 8,380 1,400,150 530 57,972,816
2021 1,907 2 10,287 1,238,971 529 59,211,787
2022 2,076 2 12,363 1,097,554 533 60,309,341
2023 2,084 2 14,447 990,163 533 61,299,504
Updated through 12-2023.
Note: bbls is barrels; mcf is 1000 cubic feet.