Some Incredible Gas Wells In The Haynesville Shale

Undoubtedly these are horizontal wells by Petrohawk. It is easy to understand the excitement over the potential of the Haynesville Shale Gas Play.
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Petrohawk Announces Three New Haynesville Shale Wells Placed on Production at a Combined Rate of 73 Mmcfe/d

HOUSTON, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Petrohawk Energy Corporation ("Petrohawk" or the "Company") (NYSE: HK) has placed three additional Haynesville Shale wells on production at a combined rate of 73 Mmcfe/d, one with the highest reported initial production rate of any well in Petrohawk's history, as follows:

--The Brown 17 #4 (69% W.I.), located in Section 17-T16N-R11W, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, was completed on November 18 and produced at a rate of 23.4 Mmcfe/d on a 26/64" choke with 7,700# flowing casing pressure.

--The Goodwin 9 #5 (97% W.I.), located in Section 9-T16N-R11W, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, was completed on November 25 and produced at a rate of 21.1 Mmcfe/d on a 26/64" choke with 6,750# flowing casing pressure.

--The Sample 9 #1 (100% W.I.) is located in Section 9-T14N-R11W, Red River Parish, Louisiana, approximately 12 miles south of Elm Grove Field. It was completed on November 27 and produced at a rate of 28.2 Mmcfe/d on a 30/64" choke with 7,100# flowing casing pressure.

The Company expects to complete five additional Haynesville Shale wells by the end of the year.
Petrohawk Energy Corporation is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, production, exploration and development of natural gas and oil with properties concentrated in Northwest Louisiana and East Texas (Haynesville / Bossier Shale and Cotton Valley), Arkansas (Fayetteville Shale), South Texas (Eagle Ford Shale), Oklahoma and the Permian basin.

For more information contact Joan Dunlap, Vice President - Investor Relations, at 832-204-2737 or jdunlap@petrohawk.com. For additional information about Petrohawk, please visit our website at http://www.petrohawk.com/.