... Abstract EXCO-North Coast's has conducted pilot tests to add incremental reserves in a thin Marcellus through a contrarian approach toward stimulating that shale. In these underpressured Jackson County, West Virginia shale wells, slickwater fracture stimulations were used instead of the more...

... in so-called traditional tight gas reservoirs. This production management problem is exacerbated by the plasticity of shale reservoirs, the need for extensive natural fracture swarms and the now common practice of multiple fracture stimulations of the long-reach laterals. This paper examines three data...