Analysis of the Devonian shales in the Appalachian Basin

Technical Report · Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6326458

In July of 1980, a contract was submitted to the DOE by The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company for a data integration program to accumulate and analyze data that were published by many contractors under the Eastern Gas Shales Project (EGSP). The main objective of the program was to define the natural gas potential of the Devonian Shale in the Appalachian Basin. The basin analysis was implemented to complement the drilling of oriented core wells in the basin and correlate the stratigraphic, lithologic, fractographic, geochemical and stress data to known natural gas production. The result would be an exploration rationale for the Devonian Shales in the Appalachian Basin. The data integration program began in September of 1980, six years after the initial EGSP program began. Discussions with other prime contractors and the Department of Energy's personnel led to a list of deliverable items that are appropriate to project objectives and that would best outline the parameters affecting gas production, including: (1) regional fracture (joint) studies; (2) stress analysis of the basin; (3) physical characterization of the shales; (4) definition of geologic structural features; (5) stratigraphic correlations; and (6) lithologic and geochemical descriptions. A large amount of data related to all these items had been generated by the program before the initiation of this contract, so we set out to compile the information on a single map scale to facilitate data comparisons. The U.S.G.S. began development of a data base map at a scale of 1:1,000,000 and this was chosen as the format to use in this report. 36 figures, 5 tables.

• Research Organization: Cliffs Minerals, Inc., Granville, WV (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC21-80MC14693
• OSTI ID: 6326458
• Report Number(s): DOE/MC/14693-1296-Vol.1; ON: DE83003033
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products. Original copy available until stock is exhausted
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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03 NATURAL GAS
04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
APPALACHIA
BLACK SHALES
NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS
FRACTURES
GEOCHEMISTRY
LITHOLOGY
STRATIGRAPHY
EXPLORATION
CORRELATIONS
DATA ANALYSIS
DATA COMPILATION
DEVONIAN PERIOD
MAPS
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHATTANOOGA FORMATION
CHEMISTRY
DATA
ENERGY SOURCES
FAILURES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GEOLOGIC AGES
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS
GEOLOGY
INFORMATION
MATERIALS
MINERAL RESOURCES
NORTH AMERICA
NUMERICAL DATA
OIL SHALES
PALEOZOIC ERA
RESOURCES
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