Reservoir Characterization of the North Canton Gas Field Clinton Formation, Canton, Ohio

Doyle R. Watts, Dominick Wytovich, Kimberly Sinclair, David Dominic, Ernest Hauser, and Gary C. Watts
Wright State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dayton, Ohio, 45435-0001, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

The North Canton Gas Field in Ohio was produced from the Clinton Formation during the 1930s and 1940s and is now a storage field. The goal of this investigation is to use the available data from this field to characterize the Clinton Formation in northeastern Ohio for possible enhanced recovery operations. We selected the eastern portion of the field in Jackson Twp because this part is similar and likely analogous to the Clinton Formation in the adjacent East Canton Field. We have access to a data base comprised of various density, gamma ray and neutron logs, initial production, and initial formation pressures from more than 200 wells over sixteen square miles. The well logs show the two lower coarsening-upward units that roughly correspond to the driller’s White and Red Clinton and the overlying fining-upward Stray Clinton. Lineament mapping from LIDAR data shows a dominant SE to NW trend in the area of interest. Data from hydraulic fracture treatment of 71 wells enable mapping of breakdown pressures which range from 970 to 4700 psi and instantaneous shut-in pressures ranging from 825 to 2387 psi. The lower breakdown pressures during this treatment of wells correspond to higher estimated ultimate reserves of natural gas suggesting control by natural fractures. Estimates of Clinton net sand thickness range from 6 to 77 feet. Estimated ultimate reserves show SE to NW trends, parallel to certain lineaments.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90095©2009 AAPG Eastern Section Meeting, Evansville, Indiana, September 20-22, 2009