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Shale Gas Extraction

April 12, 2012. Shale Gas Extraction. The Utica and Marcellus Plays. Utica and Marcellus Shale are in the Appalachian Basin. Relative & Approximate Depth. Drilling . Typical Gas Well X-Section. Multiple Layers of Steel Casing and Cement Grout . Vertical & Horizontal Drilling.

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Shale Gas Extraction

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  1. April 12, 2012 Shale Gas Extraction

  2. The Utica and Marcellus Plays Utica and Marcellus Shale are in the Appalachian Basin

  3. Relative & Approximate Depth

  4. Drilling

  5. Typical Gas Well X-Section Multiple Layers of Steel Casing and Cement Grout

  6. Vertical & Horizontal Drilling Well typically drilled vertically to 500 above Marcellus Shale Curve from vertical to horizontal approximately 1,200 linear feet Continues horizontally for several thousand feet Final casing string cemented in place at end of well bore Approximately 15 to 30 days required to drill a horizontal Marcellus well Example illustrates 7,000 depth to shale (Typical for Pennsylvania)

  7. Multiple Wells from a Single Pad Line = 1,000 feet

  8. Hydraulic Fracturing • Intensive 24-hour operation, typically taking place over several days to stimulate the entire horizontal wellbore. • High-volume fracturing used for horizontal well development • Process begins by perforating casing, cement and shale with perforating gun • Charge from gun opens fissures in shale to release natural gas, sand necessary to expand and prop open fissures • Water & additives injected under high pressure to carry sand into fractures

  9. Hydraulic Fracturing • Perforate the well casing & grout in sections • Pressure & Volume highly dependent upon local geology • Proppant (typically sand) keeps the fractures open

  10. Hydraulic Fracturing > 1.2 Million wells hydraulically fractured in the US since 1949 “Typical” Fracture Fluid • ~ 99.5% Water & Sand • Remaining ~0.5% • Surfactant • Gelling Agent • Friction Reducers • Acid • Biocide & Others 500,0000 to 4.0M gallons water/Marcellus well 20% – 30% returns as “Flow-back” water within a few days; “produced water” follows Recycling or T&D Pennsylvania AMD Re-use??

  11. Water Consumption 5,930 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 0 Millions of Gallons per Day 1,680 1,550 268 182 60 Power generation Industrial Public Water systems Other Mining Marcellus Shale Drilling

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