Trip report for field visit to Fayetteville Shale gas wells.

Veil, J. A. ; Environmental Science Division

关键词: ANL;    BUSINESS;    ECOSYSTEMS;    EXPLORATION;    LEARNING;    NATURAL GAS;    NATURAL GAS FIELDS;    NATURAL GAS WELLS;    PRODUCTION;    SHALE GAS;    SHALES;   

DOI  :  10.2172/924689
RP-ID  :  ANL/EVS/R-07/4
PID  :  OSTI ID: 924689
Others  :  TRN: US200809%%566

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

This report describes a visit to several gas well sites in the Fayetteville Shale on August 9, 2007. I met with George Sheffer, Desoto Field Manager for SEECO, Inc. (a large gas producer in Arkansas). We talked in his Conway, Arkansas, office for an hour and a half about the processes and technologies that SEECO uses. We then drove into the field to some of SEECO's properties to see first-hand what the well sites looked like. In 2006, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) made several funding awards under a program called Low Impact Natural Gas and Oil (LINGO). One of the projects that received an award is 'Probabilistic Risk-Based Decision Support for Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Facilities in Sensitive Ecosystems'. The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has the lead on the project, and Argonne National Laboratory is a partner. The goal of the project is to develop a Web-based decision support tool that will be used by mid- and small-sized oil and gas companies as well as environmental regulators and other stakeholders to proactively minimize adverse ecosystem impacts associated with the recovery of gas reserves in sensitive areas. The project focuses on a large new natural gas field called the Fayetteville Shale. Part of the project involves learning how the natural gas operators do business in the area and the technologies they employ. The field trip on August 9 provided an opportunity to do that.