Reservoir and stimulation evaluation of the Berea sandstone formation in Pike county, Kentucky Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • The Gas Research Institute (GRI) has been sponsoring a three-well cooperative program with Ashland Exploration, Inc. (AEI) during the past two years evaluating the Devonian Shale and Berea sandstone formations in Pike County of eastern Kentucky. The COOP 2 was targeted to evaluate the Berea and was GRI's first comprehensive tight gas sand research project in the Appalachian Basin. The objective of the research was to use and apply technologies developed previously in other GRI research. This paper will summarize the integrated reservoir and hydraulic fracture descriptions determined from analyzing the data collected in this project. The results presented can be applied by operators to better understand the productive mechanisms in the Brea reservoir, to predict well performance, and to design completion procedures and stimulation treatments. The methodology can also be applied to other tight gas sand formations.

published proceedings

  • Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting/Low Permeability Reservoirs Symposium and Exhibition

author list (cited authors)

  • Frantz, J. H., Hopkins, C. W., & Jochen, J. E

complete list of authors

  • Frantz, JH||Hopkins, CW||Jochen, JE

publication date

  • January 1993