Patent ID: 7493951

Claim:
A production well arrangement provided in gas producing strata comprising: a first vertically extending well into a gas producing strata, said well having a substantially continuous diameter, said well having an upper end defined on a ground surface and a lower end; a first access hole, said first access hole having a vertical portion coupled to a curved intermediate portion, which is coupled to a lateral portion, said vertical portion having an upper end defined on the ground surface and laterally offset from said upper end of the first vertically extending well, said lateral portion having a lateral end intersecting said first vertically extending well at an intersection point positioned between said first vertically extending well upper end and said first vertically extending well lower end, said lateral end of said lateral portion does not extend beyond the first vertically extending well, said first access hole is positioned upstream from said intersection point of said lateral end and said first vertically extending well; and one or more laterally extending holes extending from an intercepted zone defined on the first access hole, which is upstream of the intersection point, said one or more laterally extending holes do not intersect said first vertically extending well, wherein said first access hole is blocked so that a gas flows from said one or more laterally extending holes to said lateral portion of said first access hole, to said first vertically extending well and exits from the upper end thereof.