Energy Corporation of America

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Denver, Colorado and Charleston, West Virginia-based Energy Corporation of America (aka ECA) is a privately held oil and gas company that owns drilling rights on more than a million acres in the Appalachian Basin.

ECA had been actively drilling since 2007 on 10,000 acres it controls in southwestern Pennsylvania's Greene County, where it had drilled its first horizontal well with an industry partner. All told, by July, 2009 it had drilled 155 Marcellus shale vertical and horizontal wells. ECA owns the working interest outright on almost all of its wells. Those had yielded anywhere between 500 Mcf/d and 3 Mmcf/d with very little condensate. It had two rigs operating in Greene County at a drilling depth of approximately 8,000 feet to reach the Marcellus shale formation. It had begun a three year drilling program in March, 2009, and by July was producing in excess of 10 Mmcf/d of shale gas.

The company made an announcement in mid-June, 2009 that it was soliciting interest in the expansion of its System 8000 pipeline gathering system for Marcellus shale gas in North Central West Virginia. As of July, 2009 ECA owned 40 miles of pipeline with interstate hookups which was considered sufficient for the company's Marcellus gas to reach market.

• Mark Fry is a spokesman for Energy Corp. of America.