Computed Tomography Scanning and Geophysical Measurements of the Fayetteville Shale Formation from the Nixon B #1-7 Well

Technical Report · Tue Mar 29 04:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1859751· OSTI ID:1859751

Paronish, Thomas J. ^[1]; Schmitt, Rhiannon ^[2]; Moore, Johnathan E. ^[1]; Jarvis, Karl ^[1]; Brown, Sarah R. ^[1]; Dotson, Ben ^[3]; Crandall, Dustin ^[1]

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1. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)
2. Oak Ridge Inst. for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)
3. Southwest Energy, Spring, TX (United States)

The computed tomography (CT) facilities and the Multi-Sensor Core Logger (MSCL) at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Morgantown, West Virginia were used to characterize core from the Fayetteville and Pitkin formations. This core came from a vertical well drilled by Southwestern Energy (Nixon B #1-7 well) and characterized as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Onshore portfolio’s focus on unconventional shale plays. The primary impetus of this work is to characterize Fayetteville Shale core, from an unconventional shale play in Northwestern Arkansas, that is relatively under-reported on when compared to larger unconventional resources in the continental U.S.

• Research Organization: National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM)
• DOE Contract Number: 89243318CFE000003
• OSTI ID: 1859751
• Report Number(s): DOE/NETL-2022/3728
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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