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Title: Eastern gas shales mineback report: site assessment - Phase I

Abstract

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 recoverymore » technology.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Mound Facility, Miamisburg, OH (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
5377396
Report Number(s):
DOE/DP/00053-1123; MLM-MU-82-61-0003
ON: DE82009044
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-76DP00053
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
03 NATURAL GAS; BLACK SHALES; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; NATURAL GAS; RECOVERY; NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS; BOREHOLES; DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS; DEVONIAN PERIOD; DRILL CORES; FIELD TESTS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; KENTUCKY; SITE SELECTION; STRESS ANALYSIS; BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CAVITIES; CHATTANOOGA FORMATION; COMMINUTION; ENERGY SOURCES; ENGINEERING; FEDERAL REGION IV; FLUIDS; FOSSIL FUELS; FRACTURING; FUEL GAS; FUELS; GAS FUELS; GASES; GEOLOGIC AGES; GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS; GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS; MATERIALS; MINERAL RESOURCES; NORTH AMERICA; OIL SHALES; PALEOZOIC ERA; RESOURCES; TESTING; USA; 030900* - Natural Gas- Artificial Stimulation, Plowshare- (-1989)

Citation Formats

Overbey, W K, Sawyer, W K, Shuck, K Z, and Zielinski, R E. Eastern gas shales mineback report: site assessment - Phase I. United States: N. p., 1981. Web.
Overbey, W K, Sawyer, W K, Shuck, K Z, & Zielinski, R E. Eastern gas shales mineback report: site assessment - Phase I. United States.
Overbey, W K, Sawyer, W K, Shuck, K Z, and Zielinski, R E. 1981. "Eastern gas shales mineback report: site assessment - Phase I". United States.
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title = {Eastern gas shales mineback report: site assessment - Phase I},
author = {Overbey, W K and Sawyer, W K and Shuck, K Z and Zielinski, R E},
abstractNote = {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.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5377396}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1981},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1981}
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