Range Resources reported that its third quarter production volumes averaged 437 Mmcfe per day, a 13% increase over the prior year. Third quarter production volumes also exceeded second quarter, despite losing 15 Mmcfe per day of production as a result of Range selling its Fuhrman Mascho Field in West Texas effective June 30, 2009. Range has now posted 27 consecutive quarters of sequential production growth. Third quarter production exceeded the Company’s guidance due to excellent drilling results, particularly in the Barnett and Marcellus Shale plays.

Third quarter development expenditures of $145 million funded the drilling of 128 (76.9 net) wells and no recompletions. A 100% success rate was achieved. For the first nine months of 2009, 297 (186.5 net) wells have been successfully drilled and are now on production, while 76 (50.0 net) wells are currently in various stages of completion or waiting on pipeline connection. Currently, Range has 15 rigs in operation.

During the third quarter, the Marcellus Shale division continued to make excellent progress. Recently, we added two key members to our Marcellus team. Joe Frantz has been added as Vice President of Engineering and Scott Roy has been added as Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs. Both are leaders in their fields and bring substantial experience. The Marcellus Division is continuing to delineate and de-risk its large land position. We now have a rig in northeast Pennsylvania in Lycoming County drilling the first of two horizontal wells, which offset our high-rate vertical wells. We expect initial results from these two wells by early next year. We also plan to drill a Utica Shale horizontal and a shallow upper Devonian horizontal before year-end. Results of these two wells should be available by early first quarter.

Marcellus Shale production is well on plan and now exceeds 80 Mmcfe per day net and is expected to approach the higher end of the previously revised target of 90 - 100 Mmcfe per day net by year-end 2009. From inception, Range has drilled 77 horizontal Marcellus Shale wells, of which 60 have been completed and 54 are on production. The Company expects to drill and case approximately 20 additional horizontal wells in the Marcellus Shale play during the fourth quarter 2009 and carryover approximately 20 wells for completion in 2010. The Marcellus division is currently running a total of four horizontal rigs. We anticipate entering 2010 with six custom-built horizontal rigs running. The build out of the Marcellus midstream infrastructure in southwest Pennsylvania is progressing as scheduled. By December 2009 or January 2010, gross cryogenic processing capacity is expected to increase to 155 Mmcf per day. An additional 30 Mmcf per day of processing capacity is expected to be added in mid-2010 and another 150 Mmcf per day has been ordered for start-up in mid-2011, increasing gross cryogenic processing capacity to more than 300 Mmcf per day. The current 65 Mmcf per day refrigeration processing is expected to be suspended during 2010 as the new cryogenic processing is brought on.

The Southwest division also delivered strong drilling results in the third quarter. Production in the Barnett averaged 123 Mmcfe net per day during the third quarter and is currently producing approximately 130 Mmcfe net per day. The highlight of the quarter has been the completion of eight wells in southern Tarrant County for a combined production rate of 32 (20.4 net) Mmcfe per day. Also in Hood County, Range’s Barnett team completed four wells for a combined rate of 8 (6.0 net) Mmcfe per day.

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