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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 N

Lakeshore gas field (LS)

Location: Chautauqua County, New York
Discovery date: First Medina Group well was completed in 1887 but the field was not developed until 1903 or 1904
Depth (ft): D(ave) = 3,000; range 2,000 to 4,200
Hydrocarbon type and GOR: Nonassociated gas
Structural setting: Regional south-southeast-dipping homocline with numerous southeast-plunging anticlinal noses and irregular structure contours
Stratigraphic name of reservoir: Medina Group (Grimsby Formation and Whirlpool Sandstone)
Trap: Stratigraphic; no updip pinchout of sandstone reservoirs
Porosity: F ave = 6.3%, range 1.5 to 11.2%; F ave (core) = 4.9%, range 4 to 6.5%

Whirlpool Sandstone: F ave (core) = 4.7%, range 1.9 to 5.9%

Permeability: K = 3.4 mD

Whirlpool Sandstone: K = 0.1 mD, range <0.1 to 0.2 mD

Natural fractures:  
Diagenetic features:  
Water saturation and volume/salinity of produced water: Sw(ave) = 40%; early wells reported no producing water; Salinity(ave) = 256,274 ppm, range 215,377 to 298,780 ppm, sample number = 29
Gas/water and oil/water contacts:  
Reservoir pressure:  
Bottom-hole temperature: T(ave) = 98°F, range 92 to 102°F, sample number = 10
Well spacing:  
Ultimate production (EUR per well): 95th percentile (F95) = 45 MMCF of gas, 50th percentile (F50) = 120 MMCF of gas, 5th percentile (F5) = 460 MMCF of gas, sample number = 100
References: Beinkafner (1983); Copley (1980); Keighin and Hettinger (1997); McCormac and others (1996); Pees (1986); Shyer (1989)

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