Tight Gas Reservoir Characterization Projects to Provide Wealth of Online Data for Producers

Gastips, July, 2006 by Mroz, Thomas H

The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory is funding a number of projects to develop reservoir characterization databases for tight gas formations in the Appalachian Basin and in several Rocky Mountain basins.

The projects were selected based on broad industry interest in unconventional gas resources in the Appalachian and Rocky Mountain basin regions in general, and in the Mesaverde and Dakota formations of the western basins in particular. Tight gas sands represent 72% (342 Tcf) of the projected unconventional resource for the United States. Mesaverde Group sandstones represent a principal gas productive unit in western U.S. basins like the Washakie, Uinta, Piceance, Upper Greater Green River and Wind River.

The parallel efforts are focused on...

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