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Computed Tomography Scanning and Geophysical Measurements of Appalachian Basin Core from the Jones and Laughlin #1 Well, Beaver County, PA

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1995971· OSTI ID:1995971
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  1. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)
  2. Pennsylvania Bureau of Geological Survey, Middletown, PA (United States); West Chester Univ., PA (United States)
  3. Pennsylvania Bureau of Geological Survey, Middletown, PA (United States); Millersville Univ., PA (United States)
  4. Pennsylvania Bureau of Geological Survey, Middletown, PA (United States); Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  5. Pennsylvania Bureau of Geological Survey, Middletown, PA (United States)
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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 Appalachian Basin core from Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The primary impetus of this work is a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Pennsylvania Geological Survey to characterize and make publicly available core information from the Onondaga-Huntersville formations of the Appalachian Basin. This stratigraphic well and the core data produced in this report will aid in understanding the structural complexities of the Onondaga-Huntersville formations. The resultant datasets are presented in this report and can be accessed from NETL's Energy Data eXchange (EDX) online system using the following link: https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/jonesandlaughlin1well. All equipment and techniques used were non-destructive, enabling future examinations and analyses to be performed on these cores. Fractures, discontinuities, and millimeter-scale features were readily detectable with imaging performed with the NETL medical CT scanner over the entire core. Qualitative analysis of the medical CT images, coupled with X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and magnetic susceptibility measurements from the MSCL were useful in identifying zones of interest for further study. Targeted higher resolution CT scanning of select sections was performed with NETL’s micro-CT scanner. The combination of methods used provides a multiscale analysis of the core; the resulting macro and micro descriptions are relevant to many subsurface energy related examinations traditionally performed at NETL.

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); USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE), Oil & Natural Gas
DOE Contract Number:
89243318CFE000003
OSTI ID:
1995971
Report Number(s):
DOE/NETL-2023/3889
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

J&L #1 Well-Pennsylvania Oriskany Characterization dataset January 2023

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