Exxon Mobil starts sale of US shale gas properties in disinvestment plan

The top US oil producer is marketing 61 wells that last year produced around 81 million cubic feet per day equivalent of natural gas.

Exxon Mobil on Tuesday launched the sale of shale gas properties stretching across 27,000 acres in the Appalachian basin of Ohio, the company confirmed, part of an ongoing divestiture of U.S. assets.

The top U.S. oil producer is marketing 61 wells that last year produced around 81 million cubic feet per day equivalent (mmcfd) of natural gas, according to a marketing document viewed by Reuters. The sale includes another 274 wells operated by other companies. A sale could value the assets at around $200 million based on current natural gas prices and existing production from the wells, a person familiar with