The National Energy Technology Laboratory is conducting tests of a Marcellus Shale well in West Virginia that could reveal ways to improve production efficiency and environmental performance in the region, according to Daily Energy Insider.
The NETL took a 139-foot core sample from a new experimental well operated by the Marcellus shale Energy and Environmental Laboratory — a research partnership between NETL, West Virginia University, Northeast Natural Energy and Ohio State University. Researchers are using computed tomography (CT) scans to capture structural variations and density in the sample and ultimately produce cross-sectional images of it.
“Our work is allowing us to characterize a rock core from the new well in Monongalia County to better understand the structure and variation of the Marcellus Formation,” NETL Research Engineer Dustin Crandall said. “The scans we are doing of this new core sample will provide detailed datasets not typically available from shales for analysis.”
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