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Project Information Sheet 1999-02

Digital GIS compilation of selected data from Gas Potential of the New Albany Shale (Devonian and Mississippian) in the Illinois Basin

Funding Source:	Gas Research Institute and Indiana Geological Survey
Period of Contract:	1 Nov 1998 to 31 Dec 1999
Status:	completed — Definition of status type
Project Director:	Nancy R. Hasenmueller and John B. Comer

Issue

Commercial gas has been produced from the New Albany Shale (Devonian and Mississippian) from several shallow long-lived fields in southern Indiana and western Kentucky. The recently discovered shallow gas production in Michigan from the Antrim Shale, which is in large part equivalent to the New Albany Shale, has stimulated new interest in the gas potential of the New Albany in the Illinois Basin.

Objective

The objectives of the original study, completed in 1994, were to update, compile, review, and interpret available literature, maps, and unpublished data concerning the gas potential of the New Albany Shale in the Illinois Basin. A basinwide cooperative approach using the expertise of scientists from the Illinois Basin Consortium, comprising the Illinois State Geological Survey, the Indiana Geological Survey, and the Kentucky Geological Survey, was employed to produce basinwide maps and stratigraphic cross sections relating to the gas potential.

Approach

The text and figures from the original 83-page GRI-92/0391, Illinois Basin Studies 2 report have been converted into an electronic file. The map plates and stratigraphic cross sections have been converted into a geographic information system (GIS) format.

Products

The electronic files of map coverages and metadata explaining the sources of the data are available on CD-ROM. Edited by N.R. Hasenmueller and J.B. Comer, 2000, GIS Compilation of Gas Potential of the New Albany Shale (GRI CD), Indiana Geological Survey and Illinois Basin Consortium 04. Copies of the CD are available for purchase from the Illinois State Geological Survey, Indiana Geological Survey, Kentucky Geological Survey, and Gas Research Institute.

Benefits

Putting the report in a digital format makes it readily accessible to gas producers, operators, scientists, and the public. Having the maps in a GIS format makes it possible for operators to overlay or combine other data files with the map data. Making the electronic information generally available should aid operators in identifying additional Midwest gas sources, thus potentially reducing costs to the local users.

Locations Affected:

Bartholomew
Boone
Clay
Crawford
Daviess
Dubois

Fountain
Gibson
Hendricks
Jennings
Johnson
Knox

Lawrence
Martin
Monroe
Montgomery
Orange
Owen

Parke
Perry
Pike
Posey
Putnam
Spencer

Sullivan
Vanderburgh
Vermillion
Vigo
Warrick

Indiana House Districts Affected:

100
15
16
24
25
26
27
28
38
40

41
42
43
44
45
46
47
57
58
59

60
61
62
63
64
65
66
69
70
71

72
73
74
75
76
77
78
86
87
89

90
91
92
93
94
97
99

Indiana Senate Districts Affected:

21
22
23
24
29

32
33
35
36
37

38
39
40
41
44

45
46
47
48
49

50
6
7

Indiana Congressional Districts Affected:

Information Updated February 1, 2007