Research findings help characterize Fort Worth basin's Barnett shale

The Gas Research Institute's (GRI) Appalachian basin research effort has yielded analytical techniques that are being successfully applied to the Mississippian Barnett shale of Texas' Fort Worth basin. Analysis has shown that well performance can be explained by a layered reservoir descrip...

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Published inThe Oil & gas journal Vol. 91; no. 10; p. 59
Main Authors Lancaster, David E, McKetta, Steve, Lowry, Patrick H
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Nashville Endeavor Business Media 08.03.1993
Subjects
03 NATURAL GAS
030300 > Natural Gas > Drilling, Production, & Processing
Characteristics
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DRILLING
ENERGY SOURCES
EXPLORATION
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FRACTURING
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
GEOLOGIC FRACTURES
GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES
GEOLOGY
Joint ventures
MINERAL RESOURCES
Mineralogy
NATURAL GAS
NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS
Natural gas industry
NATURAL GAS WELLS
NORTH AMERICA
Oil wells
Petroleum production
PRODUCTION
PROPPING AGENTS
R&D
Research & development
Reservoirs
RESOURCES
ROCKS
SEDIMENTARY BASINS
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
SHALES
Statistical data
STIMULATION
TEXAS
USA
WELL DRILLING
WELL LOGGING
WELL STIMULATION
WELLS 030200 > Natural Gas > Reserves, Geology, & Exploration
United States > US
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Summary:The Gas Research Institute's (GRI) Appalachian basin research effort has yielded analytical techniques that are being successfully applied to the Mississippian Barnett shale of Texas' Fort Worth basin. Analysis has shown that well performance can be explained by a layered reservoir description, productive pay may be overstated by log analysis, productivity is enhanced by natural fractures, and long, bounded, high conductivity fractures are indeed being created and propped. GRI, in cooperation with Mitchell Energy, performed a study of the Barnett shale to determine whether insights gained from shales and tight gas sands research carried out in other basins might also be applicable to the Barnett. The cooperative work that was performed on 2 T.P. Sims well included: 1. open hole log analysis using the shale-specific log interpretation model that was developed for GRI by ResTech, 2. collection and analysis of oriented whole core, 3. analysis of 2 open hole stress tests, and 4. monitoring and history matching of a minifrac as well as the main fracture treatment.
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ISSN:0030-1388
1944-9151