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Characteristics of discrete and basin-centered parts of the Lower Silurian regional oil and gas accumulation, Appalachian basin: Preliminary results from a data set of 25 oil and gas fields

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-216


Appendix G

Conneaut gas field (Indian Springs pool) [Cn(IS)]

Location: Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Conneaut and Harmonsburg 7½ min. quads.)
Discovery date: 1957
Depth (ft): 3,700 to 4,190
Hydrocarbon type and GOR: Gas and associated oil (as much as 30 BOPD)
Structural setting: Regional southeast-dipping homocline with numerous terraces and southest-plunging anticlinal noses
Stratigraphic name of reservoir: Medina Group (Grimsby Formation and Whirlpool Sandstone)
Trap: Stratigraphic; no recognizable updip pinchout of sandstone reservoirs
Porosity: F ave (log) = 10%, as high as 18%; F medina ave (core) = 4%, range 2.9 to 5.4%
Permeability: Kave = <0.1 mD; K = 0.082 mD also reported
Natural fractures:  
Diagenetic features:  
Water saturation and volume/salinity of produced water: Salinity = 152,000 mg/l
Gas/water and oil/water contacts:  
Reservoir pressure: Pave = 1,020 psi (0.26 psi/ft), range 800 to 1,150 psi
Bottom-hole temperature: 98° F
Well spacing:  
Ultimate production (EUR per well):  
References: Dresel (1985); Keighin and Hettinger (1997); Laughrey (1984); Pees and Burgchardt (1985); Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association—Gas Advocacy Committee (1980)

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