more permian results

Here is some references to permain assets in the quarterlies of other permian oil producers.
All have talked up their Permian assets.

ConocoPhillips

During the quarter, combined production from the Eagle Ford, Bakken and Permian Basin averaged 203,000 BOE per day and that’s up 47% from a year ago. These assets made up less than 9% of our total company production a year ago and today these assets comprise 13% of our total company production and we expect they will continue to grow.

John P. Herrlin Jr. – Societe Generale

Okay. Last one from me in terms of virgin new players or newer players, Permian and Niobrara, should we expect to see acceleration there in activity.

Matthew J. Fox

Well, we have actually increased our activity this year. We’ll get three rigs running in the Permian just now, testing of that place in the Delaware basin and in the Midland basin, and we’re getting encouraging results there, but one rig running in the Niobrara, just now and we’re continuing to could test that fully across about pretty expensive acreage that we have so, we’re pretty active in both the Niobrara and in the Permian.

Energen

Oil, NGL production increases 19% from prior-year 2nd quarter; Permian Basin production rises 26%

Production in the second quarter increased 7 percent year-over-year. Oil and natural gas liquids (NGL) volumes increased 19 percent, reflecting the company's focus on its assets in the oil-rich Permian Basin; production in the basin grew 26 percent in the second quarter of 2013 from the same period last year.

Pioneer

We are clearly making a lot of good progress in terms of executing on our northern drilling plan in the Permian.
The result of all this activity is continuing growth in the Permian basin. As you can see, we produced about 80,000 BOEs per day in the second quarter. Of course, that was negatively affected by the ethane rejection Scott mentioned. But the fact is we are tightening our range to the upside for the Permian basin up to about 77,000 to 80,000 barrels equivalent per day this year compared to our prior range of 75,000 to 80,000.

Overall, we expect horizontal production from the Permian to increase from about 2,000 barrels a day last year to a range of 11,000 to 14,000 this year depending upon the exact timing of bringing wells on production.

Q&A

David W. Kistler - Simmons & Company International, Research Division

Okay, that's helpful. And mainly because it seems like Permian is stealing the show here. Maybe switch to Eagle Ford just for a moment. Obviously, execution continues to be strong there. Some of your peers have been putting a significantly larger amount of proppant in place and driving pretty staggering production rates. Will you guys be experimenting with that going forward?
Scott D. Sheffield - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yes, we have multiple pilots going on to study various aspects of how to improve the completions. And one of them is, as you said, increasing the amount of proppant used. Also looking at configurations of the number of stages that are pumped and also how we actually perforate within those stages, how many clusters and so on. All that work is being done in a pilot sense. In fact, we started that early this year. We should know a lot about those results by the end of this year. The results look very positive, though, to basically pump more proppant. That's getting pretty clear to us. And so that's, I think, the direction we're going.

Andarko

q&a
Subash Chandra - Jefferies LLC, Research Division

I apologize if this question was asked already and I didn't understand the answer, but I'll ask it again. In the Permian, the Wolfcamp, do you see that sort of being enough to make the Permian a growth asset, restore previous volumes, make it a growth asset on a consistent, sustainable basis? Or are we talking about shifting the product mix and a fairly flat production profile?

Charles A. Meloy - Executive Vice President of U.S. Onshore Exploration and Production

Subash, it's pretty early to know how big it could get. But it really shows some nice promise with these early returns. And in the event it lives up to that promise, I think you'll see the Permian turn into one of our real strong growth assets.