Natural Gas for America » natural gas production http://www.naturalgasforamerica.com Power America Can Count On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:26:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Does North Carolina have Unconventional Natural Gas from Shales ? http://www.naturalgasforamerica.com/does-north-carolina-have-unconventional-natural-gas-from-shales.htm http://www.naturalgasforamerica.com/does-north-carolina-have-unconventional-natural-gas-from-shales.htm#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 20:02:13 +0000 Caroline Keddy http://www.naturalgasforamerica.com/?p=330 At this time, North Carolina does not have any natural gas production or oil production. Thanks to the new technologies in horizontal drilling and a well enhancement technique known as ‘ hydraulic fracturing’ that are being used in other states, North Carolina counties are going to be able to tap natural gas reservoirs.

There are basins in North Carolina that contain a sequence of sedimentary rock several thousand feet thick. The rock units in the Dan River Basin and Deep River Basin are potential candidates for the drilling methods used in other states. The potential natural gas reservoirs in these basins are gray and black organic shales that are thought represent ancient lake sediments, deposited over 200 million years ago. The Cow Branch Formation of the Dan River Basin and the Cumnock Formation of the Deep River Basin both contain organic-rich shales that may yield commercial quantities of natural gas.

It is now up to the gas companies and investors to further investigate the possibility of natural gas shales in North Carolina.

C. Keddy
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