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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 J

Cooperstown gas field (Oil Creek pool) [C(OC)]

Location: Venango County, Pennsylvania (Oil City and Titusville South 7½ min quads.)
Discovery date: ~1984
Depth (ft): 5,800 to 6,200
Hydrocarbon type and GOR: Nonassociated gas
Structural setting: Regional southeast-dipping homocline with numerous southeast-plunging anticlinal noses; field is near the Tyrone-Mt. Union regional lineament
Stratigraphic name of reservoir: Medina Group; Grimsby Formation and Whirlpool Sandstone
Trap: Water block
Porosity: F ave (core) = 6 to 8.5%, range for Grimsby Formation <6 to 20%, range for Whirlpool Sandstone 4.5 to 13%
Permeability: K < 0.1 mD, based on Cooperstown field
Natural fractures:  
Diagenetic features:  
Water saturation and volume/salinity of produced water:  
Gas/water and oil/water contacts:  
Reservoir pressure: 1,400 to 1,500 psi (0.23 to 0.25 psi/ft)
Bottom-hole temperature:  
Well spacing:  
Ultimate production (EUR per well): EURmed = 225 MMCF of gas per well, range <100 to >500 MMCF of gas per well
References: Pees (1994); Zagorski (1991)

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