Technical implementation plan outline for the Eastern Gas Shales Project

Technical Report · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:5800721

The overall goal of the Eastern Gas Shales Project is to develop technologies that establish economically and environmentally acceptable means for locating and producing natural gas from Devonian Shales so that the private sector will be encouraged to develop the resource on a large scale. To achieve this goal, the following specific objectives have been defined for the project: develop accurate estimates of gas-in-place and economically recoverable resources; develop exploration rationales for the identification of drilling target areas; and develop reliable, cost-effective extraction methods. To accomplish the project's objectives, a detailed strategy consisting of the following elements has been developed: analyze existing production data to determine the technological barriers to expanded gas production; develop a resource classification for the identification and description of areas with similar gas production properties; these areas will be referred to as Devonian Shale gas provinces; conduct with private sector participation, technology development projects to remove technological barriers on a province-by-province basis; and transfer technology to the private sector. Contents of this report are: (1) introduction; (2) Devonian shales in Ohio and related areas; (3) Devonian shales in the Illinois and Michigan Basins; (4) Devonian shales of the deep Appalachian front; (5) Devonian shales in the Appalachian producing regions; (6) deep Devonian shales; (7) speculative Devonian shale regions.

• Research Organization: TRW, Inc., Morgantown, WV (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AM21-77MC08085
• OSTI ID: 5800721
• Report Number(s): TID-29017; ON: DE83014220
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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