Chattanooga shale in Tennessee: resource evaluation

Conference · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982 · Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6364297

Leimer, H W; McGowan, C

At the time of its deposition during the Devonian period, the Chattanooga shale apparently covered all of Tennessee west of the Unaka Mountain except for 2 small areas. Five cores from a 7-county eastern highland rim area were analyzed for shale thicknesses, organic elements, mineralogy, major inorganic elements, trace elements, and modified Fischer assay. Analyses indicate that in the initial study area, the Putnam-NW White County area is the best potential mine-plant site. One square mile of Chattanooga shale in the restricted study area contains 14.4 x 10/sup 6/ bbl of oil - 11.5 x 10/sup 6/ bbl from the Gassaway member and 2.9 x 10/sup 6/ bbl from the Dowelltown member using normal retorting methods. Topography, nature and depth of overburden, other geologic conditions, and environmental considerations almost dictate underground mining. Underground methods give approximately 50% resource recovery. Hydrogen retorting should increase the oil yield by a factor of 2.

• OSTI ID: 6364297
• Report Number(s): CONF-8206143-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States) Journal Volume: 66:6
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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