EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL STACKED -GAS RESERVOIRS ACROSS NORTHERN AND NORTH-CENTRAL WEST ABSTRACT Jessica Pierson Moore1, Susan E. Pool1, Philip A. Dinterman1, J. Eric Lewis1, Ray Boswell2 Three shale-gas units underlying northern and north-central create opportunity for one horizontal well pad to produce from multiple zones. The Upper Utica/Point Pleasant, Middle Marcellus, and Upper Devonian Burket/Geneseo 1 West Virginia Geological & Economic Survey, 2 U.S. DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory construction of fairway maps for each play.

Current drilling activity focuses on the Marcellus, with more than 1,000 horizontal completions reported through mid-2015. Across northern West Virginia, the Marcellus is 40 to 60 ft. thick with a depth range between 5,000 and 8,000 ft. Total Organic (TOC) REGIONAL GEOLOGY is generally 10% or greater. Quartz content is relatively high (~60%) and clay content is low (~30%). Reservoir pressure estimates STRUCTURAL CROSS-SECTION FROM HARRISON CO., TO HARDY CO., WEST VIRGINIA range from 0.3 to 0.7 psi/ft and generally increase to the north. Volumetric assessment of the Marcellus in this area yields preliminary NW SE 81° 80° 79° 78° 1 2 3 4 5 original gas-in-place estimates of 9 to 24 Bcf/mi2. OH WV WV WV WV Figure 2.—Location of seismic sections, wells, and major basement Harrison Co. Marshall Co. Marion Co. Preston Co. Hardy Co. 34-067-20103 47-051-00539 47-049-00244 47-077-00119 47-031-00021 PLAY GR 41 miles GR 36 miles GR 27 miles GR 32 miles GR Westmoreland The Burket /Geneseo interval is approximately 15 to 40 ft thick across the fairway. The underlying Tully and Mahantango Washington “Neither Utica nor Shale” Svetz sea level -Patchen and Carter, Utica Shale Play Book Ohio No.1 EXPLANATION to simultaneously complete both formations. This interval may be less conducive to fracture stimulation with relatively high clay 40° B 40° AREA OF INTEREST Fayette Somerset Rome trough S SHALE

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Well location e 39° 39° carbonate constitutes 20 to 30% and quartz content is 10 to 20%. Gilmer Lewis D Upshur Virginia “UTI CA SHAL West Virginia Randolph - 8000 E” Allegheny structural front WVGES MAP WV24 (1987) MARCELLUS SHALE PLAY 0 50 MILES USGS Map I-2791 Figure 2. 0 50 KILOMETERS TION 81° 80° 79° 78° - 10000 A ORM RESERVOIR THICKNESS ORGANIC CONTENT ORDOVICIAN F

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Seismic Stratigraphic Extensional and Thrust Age West Formation or Name East Lithology Packages Orogenic Events Sheets Perm. Lower Upper Post-Pottsville rocks, undivided Pottsville Group and Middle post-Pottsville rocks Alleghanian orogeny A A' Penn. Lower Pottsville Group A A’ Upper Greenbrier Limestone and Mauch Chunk Group Greenbrier Limestone eastern Allegheny Plateau western Allegheny Plateau Miss. Lower Rome trough Berea , , and Time Burley No. 1 synthetic seismogram projection Time Venango Group (seconds) Arches Fork Wolf Summit anticline Chestnut Ridge anticline extension Ligonier syncline Etam anticline Deer Park anticline George's Creek syncline (seconds) Venango Group (Formation) Hampshire Formation and Riceville Formation 0.100 Pottsville Group and post-Pottsville rocks 0.100 0.200 Greenbrier Limestone 0.200 Chagrin

0.300 0.300 Shale Venango Group 0.400 0.400 Bradford Group Bradford Group Pottsville Group and post-Pottsville rocks Huron Mbr. of Greenland Gap Group 0.500 0.500 the Greenbrier Limestone Upper Salina sheet 0.600 Bradford Group 0.600 Acadian orogeny 0.700 Venango Group 0.700 0.800 0.800 Bradford Group Angola Shale Member 0.900 0.900 Devonian West Falls 1.000 Elk Group 1.000 Elk Group GNSO Formation Rhinestreet Shale Member Elk Group 1.100 1.100 Elk Group 1.200 1.200 Hamilton Group ORGANIC POROSITY THERMAL MATURITY & RESERVOIR PRESSURE 1.300 1.300 Salina Group Genesee Formation 1.400 Salina Group M1.400 RCL 1.500 1.500 Middle Tully Limestone, Hamilton Group, Marcellus Shale, and 1.600 Juniata Formation 1.600 Hamilton Group Lower Oriskany Sandstone and 1.700 1.700 1.800 Reedsville Shale Reedsville Shale 1.800 Upper Salina Group (includes salt beds) Salina Group, Tonoloway Limestone, 1.900 Trenton Limestone 1.900 and and Wills Creek Formation 2.000 2.000 Trenton Limestone Salina Group 2.100 2.100 Paleozoic and Keefer Sandstone McKenzie Limestone and Keefer Sandstone 2.200 2.200

2.300 Beekmantown Group 2.300 Silurian 2.400 2.400 Lower 2.500 2.500 Reedsville- 2.600 and pre-Knox rocks Knox Group and 2.600 Martinsburg 2.700 pre-Knox rocks 2.700 Juniata Formation Juniata Formation sheet 2.800 2.800 Oswego Sandstone 2.900 2.900 Upper 3.000 3.000 PNPL 3.100 3.100 Reedsville Shale (Utica Shale at base) Reedsville Shale Grenvillian basement 3.200 3.200 3.300 Grenvillian basement 3.300 Trenton Limestone Trenton Limestone Black River Limestone 3.400 3.400 Middle 3.500 3.500 Ordovician Knox Beekmantown Group Beekmantown Group 3.600 3.600 ? 3.700 3.700 Passive continental Lower Rome- 3.800 3.800 Waynesboro 3.900 3.900 Upper sandstone member of the of the Knox Group by Rome trough sheet 4.000 4.000 Upper extension Copper Ridge Dolomite of the Knox Group 4.100 4.100 Knox Group and 4.200 4.200 Middle pre-Knox rocks 4.300 4.300 and 4.400 4.400 Lower 4.500 EXPLANATION 4.500

4.600 4.600 Normal fault—Several faults suggest compressional Back thrusts Autochthonous 4.700 reactivation 4.700 Grenvillian Major detachment zone at base of thrust Grenvillian basement Grenvillian ZONES OF OVERPRESSURE NATURAL FRACTURE NETWORKS 4.800 Foreland-vergent imbricate thrust faults sheet 4.800 basement basement 4.900 4.900

5.000 5.000 The U.S. Geological Survey purchased the license for the digital data used in this investigation from Seismic Exchange Inc. (SEI). If further access to these data is needed, please contact SEI. Figure 3.--Correlation chart of Paleozoic and Proterozoic rocks in the study area and associated thrust sheets. Also shown are times of major extensional and orogenic events. Colors refer to seismic Marcellus Shale AMPLITUDE Kulander and Ryder, 2005 (USGS Map I-2791) 0 5 10 15 20 MILES

Pressure Estimates Received from Operators -800 -400 0 400 800 APPROXIMATE SCALE Classes QUARTZOSE SEDIMENTS 0.25 - 0.3 0.3 - 0.35 WV HORIZONTAL WELL LOCATIONS 0.35 - 0.4 DUAL MARCELLUS/ UPPER DEVONIAN WELL PAD DUAL MARCELLUS/ UTICA WELL PAD 0.4 - 0.45 Marcellus XRD 0.45 - 0.5 Harrison Co @ 7170 . TOC = 4.71% WETZEL COUNTY, WV MARSHALL COUNTY, WV 0.5 - 0.55 Title ¶ 49-244 40.0 0.55 - 0.6 30.0 0.6 - 0.65 0.65 - 0.7 20.0 Stacked Shale Well Locations 0.7 - 0.71 max 10.0 Utica Well Locations Point Pleasant XRD Upper Devonian Well Locations Marion-244 @ 12,940 Data Extent 0.0 Lash and Engelder (2009) Marcellus Completed Well Locations TOC = 0.47% Marcellus Permitted Well Locations MARCELLUS 35 30 25 0 5 10 20 Marshall County, WV Miles 15 Gastar Well Pads 10 Marcellus XRD 5 0 Harrison Co @ 7221 TOC = 8.03%

60.0 50.0 40.0 30.0 Geneseo/Burket XRD 20.0 Wetzel Co WV-7 @ 6493.5 10.0 Point Pleasant XRD TOC= 2.6% avg. 0.0 Marion-244 @ 13,045 40 Dow, 1977 TOC = 3.46% 30 30 20 EQT Shiben Pad 25 10 Wetzel County, WV SEM Image of well-developed organic porosity in the Point Pleasant Formation (core 74NY5). Thermal maturity of the 20 15 0 samples is above 3.0% Ro. The Point Pleasant Formation notably lacks intergranular porosity; a majority of pores are located 10 within organic material. As the reservoir matures, the pore networks become more robust and interconnected. From 5 0 GENESEO Carter and Soeder, 2015. Images and analyses courtesy of Juergen Schieber (Indiana University). 0 5 10 20 Geneseo/Burket XRD Wetzel Co WV-7 @ 6507.7 Neuhaus et al., 2012 (SPE 16195) TOC= 2.6% avg. Three Marcellus wells were completed 50 INTERBEDDED CARBONATE AND ORGANIC SHALE 40 Geneseo and Marcellus completed wells in 2011; these wells have an average cumulative 30 20 exhibit similar average monthly production; gas production of 1.3 Bcf . The Utica well, completed in 10 W9427.5 GENESEO/BURKET SHALE PLAY 0 pad also has two wells permitted to the Middlesex Matrix % Composition Quartz 10 Calcite 25 Clay 50 RESOURCE POTENTIAL AND Organics 5 GENERALIZED FAIRWAY MAP <1 RESERVOIR THICKNESS ORGANIC CONTENT ANTECEDENT TOPOGRAPHY Fossils Identiied IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT Echinoderm

Presence of multiple unconventional units in northern West Virginia presents a W9486 Matrix % Composition Quartz 25 unique and challenging opportunity for development of the resource. Pool (2013) estimated Calcite 10 Clay 45 Organics 20 Upper Devonian + Marcellus + Utica that the Marcellus Shale contains 122 Tcf of original gas-in-place; this number is likely Fossils <1 (potential generally increases to north) Utica + Marcellus (?) Fossils Identiied conservative due to a lack of accurate reservoir pressure estimates at time of publication. Trilobite Ostracod Marcellus + Utica An updated volumetric assessment of Devonian shale units in WV is currently underway. Crinoid (potential increases to northeast) Brachiopod Echinoderm Basin-wide assessment of the Point Pleasant Formation (Hohn et al., 2015) yields OGIP Burrows Calcareous Thin Shelled estimates of approximately 1,745 Tcf. Northern West Virginia is situated favorably within Pelloid the“sweet spot” of the reservoir; acreage in West Virginia accounts for 10-15% of the 1 W9492.5 Matrix % Composition 1 1 2 3 4 overall area. Quartz <1 20 5 10 Calcite 30 55 10 25 Clay 60 5 60 30 Development of the Point Pleasant is anticipated to move eastward following successful test Organics <1 20 10 20 wells in the eastern portion of the Pennsylvania fairway. This development will occur within 2 Fossils 7 0 0 25 Fossils Identiied 1. Trilobite the footprint of Marcellus drilling, which presents challenges for acquiring contiguous deep Burrow Harrell Shale 3 2. Spiculite Sponge Chumney Family Trust GR > 230 API mineral rights as well as siting well pads in steep topography. 4 Burrows (Boyce, 2010) 3. Ostracod Boyce, 2010 A nal consideration for development of stacked shale units in West Virginia is pressure 4. Ostracod regime--maintaining it in the Devonian section, and controlling it in the Point Pleasant. WOOD-351 THIN SECTION ANALYSIS CHUMNEY FAMILY TRUST CORE ANALYSIS Completion techniques will likely be modied using lessons learned from early development, (R. McDowell and D. Skerbitz, WVGES) (T. Smith, Smith Stratigraphic, LLC) as necessity is so often the mother of invention.