The core samples were split amongst researchers from ten different institutions and initial results were presented in West Virginia Geological Survey Report of Investigations 18, A Symposium on the Sandhill Deep Well, Wood County, West Virginia (Woodward, 1959). The section of core presented at the meeting was taken immediately above and below the Trenton/Point Pleasant contact.ĭrilled in 1955 near the crest of the Burning Springs anticline in Wood County, WV, by the Hope Natural Gas Company in conjunction with the South Penn, Manufacturers Light and Heat, and Columbian Carbon Gas companies, this core represents the first well in West Virginia to penetrate the entire Paleozoic section from the ''Coal Measures to the Precambrian.'' Nearly 2,870 feet of the well was cored, mostly from the basal Cambrian and Ordovician sections. This poster accompanied core from the Sandhill Well, Power Oil Company's Well #9634 (API #4710700351) in the Trenton/Point Pleasant/Utica from Wood County, West Virginia during the core exhibit/workshop at the 2017 ESAAPG meeting. ( Download the presentation PDF, 5.6 MB - Large) ![]() The presentation discusses how the Rogersville differs from the Marcellus and Utica-Point Pleasant, why it has potential for development, and some of the reasons it has not been developed as a gas play yet. It ranges in thickness from 0 to over 1,000 feet, but is not organic rich throughout its entire thickness. Several wells have been completed in Kentucky where the Rogersville is shallower (5,000 to 10,0000 feet deep). Deposition is limited to within the Rome Trough, an extensional graben (down-dropped block) part of an interior rift system (pulling apart) formed during the opening of the Iapetus Ocean. ![]() It is relatively deep in West Virginia, approximately 10,000 to 17,000 feet below land surface, which is about 7,000 to 9,000 feet below the Marcellus and about 5,000 feet below the Utica-Point Pleasant. While the Middle Cambrian (~500 million years old) Rogersville Shale is not a current gas play, does the Rogersville have the potential to be a productive play in West Virginia? The Rogersville is an organic-rich dark shale mixed with siltstone and carbonates. ![]() The Marcellus and Utica-Point Pleasant currently dominate shale gas production in the Appalachian Basin.
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