Abstracts

• 11380 Craquelure in Masterpieces of the Louvre (Paris, France) as Analogue Models for Development of Joints in Gas Shale Reservoirs Craquelure, the fine pattern of cracks found in old paintings, presents a rare opportunity to reach beyond the physical sciences for help in understanding a geological process as inscrutable as the development of joints in a fractured reservoir.  Masterpieces in the Louvre (Paris, France) and other national galleries, like bedded sedimentary rocks, are jointed (i.e., cracked) composite materials with welded contacts between substrate and joint-bearing medium. Craquelure in Masterpieces of the Louvre (Paris, France) as Analogue Models for Development of Joints in Gas Shale Reservoirs
  Craquelure in Masterpieces of the Louvre (Paris, France) as Analogue Models for Development of Joints in Gas Shale Reservoirs
• 11382 Tectonic History of the Marcellus Gas Shale as revealed by Fracturing in the Appalachian Mountain Foreland Assets within the Appalachian Basin range from conventional clastic and carbonate reservoirs to source rocks of Devonian black shale and Pennsylvanian coal, all of which are fractured. These fractures range from coal cleat and cracks around kerogen flakes to natural hydraulic fractures, tensile joints in stiff beds, and late-stage cross joints. Tectonic History of the Marcellus Gas Shale as revealed by Fracturing in the Appalachian Mountain Foreland
  Tectonic History of the Marcellus Gas Shale as revealed by Fracturing in the Appalachian Mountain Foreland
• 11384 The Environmental Realities of Hydraulic Fracturing: Production from the Marcellus gas shale generated international interest when methane accumulated in the surface housing of a water well pump and exploded. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA-DEP) immediately investigated and determined the cement had insufficiently isolated shallow methane-bearing sands (not the Marcellus gas shale) and methane from these sands was leaking into ground water. The Environmental Realities of Hydraulic Fracturing:
  The Environmental Realities of Hydraulic Fracturing:
• 11385 The Middle Devonian Marcellus black shale play as an infrastructural and geological analogue for the world's gas shale plays Challenges for global gas shale production include infrastructural and geological with the Marcellus providing an analogue for both. (Infrastructural) The production from the Marcellus gas shale presents unique challenges that include issues associated with leasing, geology, landowners, virtually no deep disposal wells, state governments without a severance tax, several river basin commissions, an infrastructure designed for shallow gas production, an emotional group of environmentalists, and one state that has yet to permit horizontal well stimulation. This combination of challenges makes for a very interesting set of lessons that operators will face elsewhere in the world when attempting to play gas shales. The Middle Devonian Marcellus black shale play as an infrastructural and geological analogue for the world's gas shale plays
  The Middle Devonian Marcellus black shale play as an infrastructural and geological analogue for the world's gas shale plays