Haynesville Shale

The Haynesville Shale is a rock formation mainly composed of consolidated clay-sized particles deposited and buried in northwest Louisiana and East Texas more than 170 million years ago during the Upper Jurassic age. It is characterized by ultra-low permeability but has a high porosity compared to other shales.

The Haynesville Shale came into prominence in 2008 as a potentially major shale gas resource. Producing natural gas from the Haynesville Shale involves drilling wells from 10,000 feet and to 13,000 feet deep. The formation is deeper in areas nearer the Gulf of Mexico. The Haynesville Shale has recently been estimated to be the largest natural gas field in the contiguous 48 states with an estimated 250 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas. Production has boomed since late March 2008, creating a number of new millionaires in the Shreveport, Louisiana region.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Seismic Surveying in East Texas

Activity in the Haynesville Shale is stretching westward into Texas. Seismic crews are searching beneath the waters of Lake Murvale in Carthage, Texas in search of liquid gold. That work has some residents wondering what else could be coming up.


The thirty-three hundred acre lake is part of the six hundred and forty square miles of survey the company is conduction in their search for oil and gas. The company has several ways for collecting data on the lake. "We have dynamite, as we were talking about, shot holes. We have vibrator trucks to shake the ground and now out here we use the air guns, on a boat", says JST Project Manager, Terry Bone.


Ken Pauley is a 27-year resident of the lake. He is worried what will become of the drinking water for the area. "When you start moving high pressure air or dynamite you're bringing up silt up off the bottom and that's going to go into the water system in Carthage", says Pauley.




Source: KTBS

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