Research findings help characterize Fort Worth basin's Barnett shale

摘要: Analytical techniques that have grown out of the Gas Research Institute's Appalachian basin research effort are being successfully applied to Mississippian Barnett shale Texas' Fort Worth basin. Analysis has shown well performance can be explained by a layered reservoir description, productive pay may overstated log analysis, productivity is enhanced natural fractures, and long, bounded, high conductivity fractures indeed created propped. As with shales, key fracture treatment optimization appears better characterization via an integration test data. The paper describes geologic setting, drilling since 1981, summary cooperative work performed on 2 T.P. Sims well, shale-specific log, core analysis orientation, frac production data analysis.