INTERVIEW The hidden treasure that is the Burket Shale Gregory Wrightstone, Owner, Wrightstone Energy Consulting Today we are discussing the yet-untapped potential of the Burket with Gregory Wrightstone of Wrightstone Energy Consulting. The incredibly successful Marcellus shale – along with the underlying Utica shale, which was recently reported to hold as much as 20 times more dry natural gas as was previously believed – tend to overshadow the shallower Burket-Geneseo shale, which is the black organic rich shale that lies immediately on top of the Tully Limestone, and is an Upper Devonian formation. The play is in an early stage of development but it is already believed that it could be classified as a super-giant field – holding 30 Tcf of dry gas or more. Monica Thomas (Shale Gas International): We are here to talk about the Burket / Geneseo Shale. I understand these are two sections of the same formation – am I correct in thinking that? Gregory Wrightstone (Wrightstone Energy Consulting ): They’re equivalent formations – in other words the accepted terminology across most of Pennsylvania and West Virginia is the Burket, whereas the same formation in North-West Pennsylvania and New York is Geneseo. So they are laterally equivalent.
MT: You chose to talk about the Burket at the recent Hart Energy Developing Unconventionals DUG East conference. What is so important about this shale that the industry should take notice? GW: Well, there have been around 90 wells that have been completed as producers to date. And many of those wells had significant and high production rates. Some of them as high as over a Bcf of gas in
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