EnerVest Ltd. president and chief executive John Walker notes that geology plays a role in the Utica, and completion techniques therefore vary across the shale play. The Utica-Point Pleasant play, like the prolific Eagle Ford shale in Texas, has three defined hydrocarbon windows.

“I heard someone say that the Utica is homogeneous. They don’t know what they’re talking about—it’s not homogeneous. Geology plays a role, and you have to use different completion techniques.”

Walker, along with three other Utica shale experts, shared insight and current intelligence from this fast-moving play ...