Stratigraphic Accumulation in Jackson-Kanawha Counties Area of West Virginia

ABSTRACT The Jackson-Kanawha Oriskany gas field is in Jackson and Kanawha counties, West Virginia. The main pool extends north from Charleston in a broad tapering belt 15 miles wide at Sissonville and 2 miles wide in northern Jackson County. The Blue Creek pool is 8–12 miles northeast of Charleston in a band 4 miles long and 3 miles wide. The Boone County-Campbells Creek pool is on the Warfield anticline 6 miles south of Charleston in a belt 12 miles long and 3 miles wide. On January 1, 1948, the total area developed was 193,000 acres, and the total gas produced was 721,482,555 MCF. At that time 1,239 wells had been completed to the sand, of which 1,076 were saved as gas wells and 163 were dry holes. The 1,076 gas wells have produced an average of 670,523 MCF per well. It is estimated that the field is 75–80 per cent depleted and that the ultimate production will be 910,000,000 MCF, an average of 4,715 MCF per acre.