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The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale
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What Is The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale?
• The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) is a sedimentary rock formation that consists of organic-rich fine-grained sediments that were deposited in a marine environment that existed across the Gulf Coast region approximately 90 million years ago.
• When hydraulically fractured, wells in the TMS have produced commercial amounts of oil.
• The Louisiana Geological Survey has estimated that there is a potential reserve of about 7 billion barrels of oil in the TMS.
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How Big Is The TMS?
• It extends across southern Louisiana, from Vernon Parish to St. Tammany Parish
• The TMS varies in thickness varies from approximately 500 feet in southwestern Mississippi to more than approximately 800 feet in the southern part of the Florida Parishes in southeastern Louisiana
• The TMS varies in depth from an approximately depth of 11,000 feet to the north to more than 15,000 feet to the south.
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National View Of The TMS
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Regional View Of The TMS
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TMS Statewide Distribution
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Stratigraphy Of The TMS
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TMS Wells On Google Earth Imagery
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TMS Wells On A Map
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How Much Oil Is There In The TMS?
• The Louisiana Geological Survey, which did the initial work on both the Tuscaloosa Gas and Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, has estimated that the potential oil reserves – that is, the amount of technically and economically recoverable oil - are excess of seven billion barrels.
• Given yesterday’s crude price of approximately 100 dollars a barrel, that’s somewhere around 700 billion dollars worth of oil.