Resource Assessment of the Eastern Gas Shales

Conference · Sun Aug 16 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:6366459

Zielinski, R. E. ^[1]; McIver, R. D. ^[2]; Komar, C. A. ^[3]

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1. Mound Facility, Miamisburg, OH (United)
2. McIver Consultants International, Houston, TX (United States)
3. USDOE Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC), WV (United States)

The Upper Devonian shales of the Illinois, Appalachian and Michigan Basins are being characterized to provide a basis for accelerating the exploitation of this unconventional source of natural gas which contains in its matrix enormous quantities of natural gas. Since the Devonian shales lie close to major population and industrial center, they have been of great interest to the oil and gas industry for many years. Unfortunately, the gas is tightly held in the virtually impermeable rocks so that few wells penetrating this resource have been able to produce economically feasible quantities of gas. The United States Department of Energy's Technology Center has been sponsoring the Eastern Gas Shale Program in order to provide industry with criteria for locating the best areas in which drill and the means for effectively stimulating the shale to make wells drilled in this resource economically attractive. This paper deals with the organic geochemical characterization of the shales and those criteria that have evolved to assist in the exploration of the resource.

• Research Organization: Mound Facility, Miamisburg, OH (United); McIver Consultants International, Houston, TX (United States); USDOE Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC), WV (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00053
• OSTI ID: 6366459
• Report Number(s): MLM--2831(OP); CONF-810814-2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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