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Article: MOBIL'S WORLD-RECORD HORIZONTAL WELL PROJECT OPENS UP NEW NATURAL GAS IN GERMANY
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- March 14, 1995
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FAIRFAX, Va., March 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobil Corporation announced today that its exploration and producing unit in Germany, Mobil Erdgas- Erdoel GmbH (MEEG), has successfully completed the world's deepest horizontal well with multiple hydraulic fractures, the first project of this kind in Germany, resulting in an increase in economically producible natural gas reserves.
"In a pioneering combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, production of natural gas reserves, previously not considered economically recoverable, can now proceed," said Mobil Chairman Lucio A. Noto. "The Soehlingen Z-10 project demonstrates how Mobil makes effective use of ...