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Volume: 32 (1948)

Issue: 11. (November)

First Page: 2159

Last Page: 2159

Title: Kanawha-Jackson Oriskany Gas Field: ABSTRACT

Author(s): A. H. McClain

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

The Kanawha-Jackson Oriskany Gas Field is in Kanawha and Jackson counties, West Virginia. The main pool extends north from Charleston in a broad tapering belt 15 miles wide at Sissonville and 2 miles wide in northern Jackson County. The Blue Creek pool is 8-12 miles above Charleston in a band 4 miles long and 3 miles wide. The Boone County-Campbells Creek pool is on the Warfield anticline 6 miles south of Charleston in a belt 12 miles long and 3 miles wide. On January 1, 1948, the total area was 193,000 acres and the total gas produced was 721,482,555 MCF. At that time 1,239 wells had been completed to the sand, of which 1,076 were saved as gas wells and 163 were dry holes. The 1,076 gas wells have produced an average of 737,269 MCF per well. It is estimated that the fiel is 75-80 per cent depleted, and that the ultimate production will be 910,000,000 MCF, an average of 4,715,000 MCF per acre.

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