Eastern gas shales mineback report: site assessment - Phase I

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:5377396

Overbey, W K; Sawyer, W K; Shuck, K Z; Zielinski, R E

The technology development and demonstration program herein described resulted from an assessment of the state-of-the-art problems of gas recovery, from the Eastern Devonian Shales. After ten years of Devonian Shale research, the remaining major issues for developing the shale resource have been defined and this project was formulated to address those specific recovery problems. This document provides the rationale and criteria for selecting and evaluating a site for a mineback type project and the experimental results obtained from a one hundred and twenty day on-site testing and evaluation plan. The site selected as the best overall candidate for on-site testing was Sugarloaf Mountain, which is located about six miles off the Interstate I-64 exit at Morehead, Kentucky. The on-site testing included obtaining a core through the Ohio shale interval, core analysis, in-situ stress measurements from five boreholes, gas pressure buildup, natural fracture and joint mapping, hydraulic fracture orientation mapping, photogeology and a thorough study of the geology and gas shale reservoir history in the area. Results of the site evaluation data obtained to date indicate the site to be a very favorable one for conducting the planned mineback experiments and future development, testing and demonstration of Devonian Gas shales recovery technology.

• Research Organization: Mound Facility, Miamisburg, OH (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00053
• OSTI ID: 5377396
• Report Number(s): DOE/DP/00053-1123; MLM-MU-82-61-0003; ON: DE82009044
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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