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Buchanan Prospect Mingo County, West Virginia June 2000 General; The Buchanan prospect is located in Stafford District of Mingo County near the town of Warncliffe, in the southeastern portion of Mingo County, West Virginia. Figure #2 is an Oil and Gas field's map of Lincoln. Logan, and Mingo County, which shows the Buchanan lease being located in the Gilbert field. This field joins the Mann-Oceana Field to the north and the Magnolia field to the west. Production in this field is from 10 pay zones ranging in depth from 1,800 feet to 6,000 feet. The Big Lime and the Berea sandstone formations have historically been the largest producers of gas, however recent completion's in the Devonian shale has shown this interval has the potential to be a heavy producer of gas. History; The United Fuel Company initially discovered natural gas in this general area in the late 1890's, when they drilled several Big Lime/Berea wells across the state line in Kentucky. The success of the earlier wells led to the drilling of Big Lime/Berea wells in adjacent Mingo County. Drilling in Mingo county has been steady since the turn of the 19th century to the date of this report. Rocks penetrated by wells drilled in the Mingo county area have encountered formations from the Middle Pennsylvanian to the Precambrian. Stratigraphy; Figure #A is a Generalized Stratigraphic Column with Oil and Gas Reserves for West Virginia. In the Mingo county area gas production has been discovered and produced from 14 different zones in the Pennsylvanian to Devonian age rocks. The potential also exists for gas production in rocks as old as the Cambrian as based on 2 wells drilled to the Cambrian-Ordovician period. These wells, being Mingo #805 and Mingo #879, were drilled on structural highs. Mingo #805. located northwest of the Buchanan lease was drilled by Columbia Gas transmission Company in 1973 and penetrated the Precambrian crystalline rocks. This well had several shows of gas in formations below the Devonian shale. The possibility exists that hydrocarbon production from formations in the lower Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician. and Cambrian, may be discovered in the area of the Buchanan lease although they arc not con
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