◊ WVGES

• WVGES Presentation: Overview of Gas and Oil Resources in West Virginia
  WVOilGasResourcesGeologyMarcellus_WVSAF02052009.pdf (PDF, 3.05 MB)
  
  
• WVGES Presentation: Geology of the Marcellus Shale
  WVGES_GeologyMarcellusShale.pdf (PDF, 1.13 MB)
  
  
• WVGES Poster for ES-AAPG Meeting (2008): New Interest in Cores Taken Thirty Years Ago: the Devonian Marcellus Shale in Northern West Virginia— Katharine Lee Avary (WVGES) and Eric Lewis (WVGES): http://www.papgrocks.org/avary_pp.pdf (PDF, 2.72 MB)
  
  
• WVGES Report (1997): Enhancement of the Appalachian Basin Devonian Shale Resource Base in the GRI Hydrocarbon Model
  gri.pdf (PDF, 3.28 MB)
  
  
• WVGES Reference (1980): About the Devonian Hamilton Group
  Isopach maps of the Devonian Hamilton Group (the Marcellus Shale is the lowest member of the Hamilton Group) and of the highly radioactive shale within the Hamilton Group were prepared by Joseph Schwietering and are available at Pages from Schwietering, J.F., 1980, The Occurrence of Oil and Gas in Devonian Shales and Equivalents in West Virginia (PDF, 83.48 KB).
  Note that the Hamilton Group is not present in the far western part of the state.
  
  
• Two chapters in The Atlas of Major Appalachian Gas Plays (John B. Roen and Brian J. Walker, editors, 1996, WVGES Volume 25) address Devonian shales. The chapter on Upper Devonian black shales includes a discussion of the Marcellus Shale, the deepest of the Devonian black shales in West Virginia. A chapter on Upper Devonian fractured black and gray shales and siltstones addresses the more eastern and northern of the shales in the state. This publication is available from the WVGES publications sales office (see http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/services/servpubc.htm#Volumes for the publication description and see http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/services/orderform.pdf for the publication order form).

◊ US DOE

• U.S. DOE Report (2009): Modern Shale Gas Development in the United States: A Primer
  Shale_Gas_Primer_2009.pdf (PDF, 5.11 MB).
  
  
• U.S. DOE Report (2010): Projecting the Economic Impact of Marcellus Shale Gas Development in West Virginia: A Preliminary Analysis Using Publicly Available Data
  WVMarcellusEconomics3.pdf (PDF, 2.22 MB).
  
  
• A large body of literature was published in the 1970's and 1980's on research funded by the U.S. DOE and the Gas Research Institute (GRI) (now the Gas Technology Institute (GTI)). Much of the emphasis in the earlier work was on the Lower Huron shale which is the primary productive zone in the historic productive area (e.g., the Big Sandy field of southwestern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky). The US DOE literature has been scanned and is available on DVD; information on the DVD is available at http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/cdordering.html. The DVD is described below:
  
  

  Title:	Archive of Unconventional Gas Resources Program
  Info:	A DVD archive of nearly two decades of pioneering research from the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL) is now available. The archive includes nearly 1,500 valuable documents on 2 DVDs. The first DVD contains reports and logs related to the Eastern Gas Shales Program (1976-1992). A second DVD combines program information related to Western Gas Sands (1977-1992), Methane Recovery from Coalbeds (1978-1982), Methane Hydrates Program (1982-1992), Deep Source Gas Project (1982-1992), and Secondary Gas Recovery (1987-1995). Both include a comprehensive summary of the Unconventional Gas Resources Program and an extensive bibliography dedicated to each of these programs. This data was originally published as a 12 CD set but is now conveniently offered on a 2 DVD set.
  Format:	DVD
  Date:	May 2007

◊ USGS

• Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Devonian Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian Basin Province, 2011, USGS Fact Sheet 2011-3092, 2p., Coleman, J.L., Milici, R.C., Cook, T.A., Charpentier, R.R., Kirschbaum, Mark, Klett, T.R., Pollastro, R.M., and Schenk, C.J. See: http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2011/3092/.
  
  
• Petroleum Geology of the Devonian and Mississippian Black Shale of Eastern North America, USGS Bulletin 1909, J.B. Roen and R. C. Kepferle, editors. See: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/b/b1909.
  
  
• Thermal Maturity Patterns (CAI and %R_o) in the Ordovician and Devonian Rocks of the Appalachian Basin in West Virginia by J.E. Repetski, R.T. Ryder, K.L. Avary, and M.H. Trippi (USGS Open-file Report 2005-1078: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1078/)
  
  
• Assessment of Appalachian Basin Oil and Gas Resources: Devonian Shale—Middle and Upper Paleozoic Total Petroleum System by R.C. Milici and C.S. Swezey (USGS Open-File Report 2006-1237: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1237/).

◊ Petroleum Organizations and Other
The following are recent and various presentations online:

• Several Marcellus abstracts and presentations are listed and linked from the 2008 ES-AAPG Meeting: http://www.papgrocks.org/aapg_es_08.htm
  
  
• PTTC/PGS/PAPG Shale Geochemistry Seminar—Christopher D. Laughrey, Weatherford Laboratories: http://www.papgrocks.org/publications.htm
  
  
• Ground Water Protection Council Presentation (2008): Hydraulic Fracturing Considerations for Natural Gas Wells of the Marcellus Shale, GWPC_092008_Marcellus_Frac_Arthur_et_al.pdf (PDF, 717.71 KB), Authors: J. Daniel Arthur, P.E., ALL Consulting; Brian Bohm, P.G., ALL Consulting; Mark Layne, Ph.D., P.E., ALL Consulting.