Shale Gas in the Southern Central Area of New York State. Volume 3. Experience of Drilling Five Shale-Gas Wells in New York State

摘要

This report describes the experience of drilling and completing five new shale gas wells in Alleghany and Cattaraugus Counties. The wells were drilled on educational properties in order to demonstrate the economics of institutional and small commercial consumers developing their own sources of energy. All five wells were completed in the Marcellus formation of the Devonian shales and have been connected to an appropriate heat load for the purpose of production testing. This well data will be an important factor in predicting the decline rate of Marcellus production and the volume of recoverable reserves from future wells drilled and completed in the same formation.