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Geochemical controls on production in the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin.
The Newark East field (Barnett Shale) in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas currently has the largest daily production of any gas field in Texas. Major controls on production in the basin include: the quantity and character of organic matter, the thermal maturity history, and the mineralogy of the Barnett …
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Simulating gas production from hydraulic fracture networks : a case study of the Barnett shale
The Barnett shale has become an extremely successful unconventional natural gas development, mainly due to the optimization of hydraulic fracturing treatments. The ideal stimulation job for the Barnett is a slickwater treatment with low proppant concentrations, because this type of waterfrac is …
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Correlstion between the volume of slurry and the volume of fracture in Barnett Shale
… large fracture networks can be generated in many shale reservoirs and create multiple of plan complex structure. The ultra-low permeability in Barnett shale requires hydraulic fracturing to generate wellbore contact with the reservoir in order to achieve economic gas rates by the concept of a …
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Media as a catalyst for civic engagement and change in North Texas: The Barnett Shale case
… study, the North Texas media's reactions to the Barnett Shale natural gas boom were examined. Because of the complexity involved within oil and gas operations and the industry's potential influence on media gatekeepers, the need to inform in a timely manner was crucial. The conclusion of this …
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Alternative groundwater resources in North-central Texas for the development of the Barnett Shale gas play
… water resource by the gas industry. The Barnett Shale in North-central Texas is one of the first major gas plays in the United States to use the technique of hydraulic fracturing in field development. This technique requires large quantities of water to create the required hydraulic …
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Stratigraphic Characterization and Depositional History of the Barnett Shale within the Fort Worth Basin in Denton County, Texas
<p>The Barnett shale, located in the Fort Worth Basin, is a geologic unit that has undergone extensive study and currently holds great economic importance. It contains well-known stratigraphy, but still holds questions with regard to the specific stratigraphic variation over much of its area. …
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Stress prediction, fracture detection, and multiple attribute analysis of seismic attributes in a Barnett Shale gas reservoir, Fort Worth Basin, Texas
The RCP Barnett Shale Project, sponsored by EOG Resources Inc., returns to the North Texas shale gas play that began the North American unconventional energy revolution. The project focuses on the paramount factor affecting the productivity of horizontal wells in the Barnett Shale: the reservoir's …
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Stretched Exponential Decline Model as a Probabilistic and Deterministic Tool for Production Forecasting and Reserve Estimation in Oil and Gas Shales
… seems to agree that ultra-low permeability and shale reservoirs have become the potentials to transform North America's oil and gas industry to a new phase. Unfortunately, transient flow is of long duration (perhaps life of the well) in ultra-low permeability reservoirs, and traditional decline …
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Atmospheric Mercury and Methane in the South-Central U.S.
… sources. Atmospheric mercury emissions in the Barnett Shale area were studied by employing both stationary measurements and mobile laboratory surveys. The influence of oil and natural gas (ONG) emissions was substantial in this area, as inferred from the i-pentane/n-pentane ratio (= 1.17). …
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Geological and Geochemical Investigation of the Petroleum Systems of the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico
… type II-II/III source rocks of the Simpson Group Shale, the Woodford Shale, the Barnett Shale, the Wolfcamp Shale, and the Bone Spring Marls. The Spraberry source rock is mostly immature with respect to petroleum generation. Geochemical evidence strongly suggests source-rock deposition under …
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Fracking freedom: A comparitive analysis of gas drilling in Hurst, Texas
… illustrate my points, this thesis focuses on the Barnett Shale in North Texas and the City of Hurst, Texas, as the City Council considered approving gas drilling permits inside their city limits.
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Gas Shale Permeability and Velocity Measurement at Laboratory Scale
Matrix permeability of gas shales is a crucial parameter for their characterization, production potential, and commercial development. Gas shales are an important reservoir type from an economic perspective because of their potential to hold large volume reserves and produce economically over time. …
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Reservoir Characterization and Depositional System of the Atokan Grant Sand, Fort Worth Basin, Texas
… ft stratigraphically above their source, the Barnett Shale, and were discovered and mapped from early Barnett vertical drilling. This play evolved from a vertical to a horizontal drilling program with Grant wells being drilled alongside Barnett wells. The purpose of this study is to improve …
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Exploring anisotropy in rock fluid flow and elastic behavior
… rock properties in geomechanical modeling of shale formations (Kirsch, 1898; Amadei, 1983). This is done through a case study of a horizontal well in the Lower Barnett Shale in Fort Worth Basin. Our results suggest that anisotropic reservoir behavior can be incorporated into reservoir models …
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STRESS AND FREQUENCY DEPENDENT PROPERTIES OF POROELASTIC ANISOTROPIC ROCK
… saturated with liquid. We use the GSA method to Barnett shale core samples to link ultrasonic velocities with mineral composition and porosity data. We also use the GSA method in subsequent chapters to estimate the effective properties of a rock. We corroborate our theoretical formulations by …
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Microseismic mapping and source characterization for hydrofracture monitoring : a full-waveform approach
… a dual-array hydrofracture monitoring dataset in Barnett shale at Fort Worth Basin. The determined microseismic source mechanisms reveal both tensile opening on hydraulic fracture strands trending subparallel to the unperturbed maximum horizontal principal stress direction and the reactivation of …
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Identification and Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Operations Using an Aircraft-Based Mass Balance Technique
… presented from a field campaign conducted in the Barnett shale, Texas which quantified CH4 emissions from facilities with atypically large emissions, known as “super-emitters”, and assessed their overall contribution to basin-wide emissions. Calculated emissions were compared to inventory …
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Unravelling the impacts of palaeoecology, palaeoenvironment and lithofacies on sedimentary organic NSO compounds
… namely the biogenic carbonate-rich Niobrara Shale, the biogenic quartz-rich Barnett Shale and the detrital clay-rich Posidonia Shale. Extracts of the siliciclastic Barnett and Posidonia samples reveal high fractions of NSO compounds confirming their generally higher retention capacities for …
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Combating Budgetary Complications from the Marcellus Shale: The Case for a Pennsylvania Gas Fund
The relationship between shale gas development and budgetary and microeconomic externalities was studied. The extraction activity in the Barnett shaleformation provided a case study for assessing per-well highway infrastructure damage and water usage. The creation of a predictive model based upon …