DEVONIAN GAS TECHNOLOGY-3 MICROFRACTURING AND NEW TOOLS IMPROVE FORMATION ANALYSIS

D.E. McMechan, Jim J. Venditto, Tim Heemstra Halliburton Services Duncan, Okla. G. Simpson Halliburton Logging Services Houston L.L. Friend, Ed Rothman Columbia Natural Resources Inc. Charleston, W.Va. Microfracturing with nitrogen, an experimental extensometer, stress profile determination from wire line logs, and temperature logging in air-filled holes are new tools and techniques that add resolution to Devonian shale gas well analysis. Columbia Natural Resources (CNR) may integrate some of