Castleton’s managing director for A&D says the company will continue to expand its footprint in the region.
The company may have sold its Haynesville properties to Covey Park Energy.
This year's high came despite utilities pumping 1.549 Tcf into storage, which was on track to be the lowest amount of gas added during an injection season on record, according to EIA data going back to 1994.
The last time year-over-year gas natural gas production declined was in 2005 when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita slammed into the Gulf Coast, damaging energy infrastructure.
Between the end of 2017 and 2018, the company expects output to climb 15%, with a 20% jump in oil production, Reuters said.
The Denham Capital-backed company purchased 34,000 acres in May.
Harold L. Hickey, CEO and president, said that Tyler Farquharson has worked at EXCO for 11 years, handling business modeling, banking, hedging, budgeting, economics and strategic planning.
Shell is currently offering 16 assets worth more than $500 million for sale as part of its vast $30 billion three-year asset sales program, the oil and gas company's head of upstream Andy Brown said on Oct. 19.
The company plans to use sale proceeds to fund its 2016 drilling program in the Haynesville Shale, which it recently restarted.
Solar and wind power are expected to make up only 7% of electric generation by 2017.