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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Friday, September 9, 2011

Fires Threaten Haynesville Shale


Reuters reported the advisory, issued on Tuesday, calls for all operators covered by state regulators to keep aware of the location of fires and to take "all appropriate steps to prevent fires from coming into contact with active wells, flowlines, gathering lines, pipelines or storage tanks."
The head of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Office of Conservation cautioned energy operators against allowing combustible vegetation, trash and debris within 100 feet of wellheads, production equipment and storage tanks.
The Haynesville natural gas shale bed sits under the northwestern part of Louisiana and spreads into east Texas.
In March, the US Energy Information Administration said the Haynesville was the highest producing shale play in the country, with some 5.5 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas production.
That is roughly 8% of US daily consumption.
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