Local Subsidence of the Goose Creek Oil Field

Pratt, Wallace E.; Johnson, Douglas W.

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“…1) (Pratt and Johnson, 1926). Although subsidence was first identified in the Houston-Galveston region as a result of hydrocarbon extraction at this particular oil field, most of the subsidence in the Houston-Galveston region is a direct result of groundwater withdrawals that have depressured and dewatered the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, thereby causing compaction of the aquifer sediments (Winslow and Doyel, 1954;Winslow and Wood, 1959;Gabrysch and Bonnet, 1975;Gabrysch, 1984;Holzer and Bluntzer, 1984;Kasmarek, Gabrysch, and Johnson, 2010).…”

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Water-level altitudes 2017 and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers and compaction 1973–2016 in the Chicot and Evangeline Aquifers, Houston-Galveston region, Texas

Kasmarek¹,

Ramage²

2017

Scientific Investigations Report

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Water-level altitudes 2017 and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers and compaction 1973–2016 in the Chicot and Evangeline Aquifers, Houston-Galveston region, Texas

Kasmarek¹,

Ramage²

2017

Scientific Investigations Report

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“…Pratt and Johnson (1926) discovered the effects of oil and gas production on subsidence with the Goose Creek Field. Many other fields have since been discovered and have been producing hydrocarbons in the region for well over seventy years .…”

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“…(From Van Siclen et al, 1984) 12 production as a viable cause of subsidence in the Harris-Galveston region. While some have studied the effects of oil and gas production on subsidence (Erickson, 1976;Hejmanowski, 1995;Murria, 1991;Pratt and Johnson, 1926;Schoonbeek, 1977;Sharp and Hill, 1995), these have been localized around a small number of fields and may have overlooked the regional aspect of oil and gas field depressurization. Regional studies of this magnitude (many small fields over 1400 mi 2 ) are rare because data (BHP) are hard to acquire.…”

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“…They cite evidence from the Goose Creek Field showing 1 m (3 .28 ft) of subsidence from 1917 to 1925 (Pratt and Johnson, 1926). In addition, the Po Delta Field in Italy (Poland and Davis, 1969), more than twenty-one fields in California (Yerkes and Castle, 1969), the Dosso degli Angeli field in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Bau et al, 1999), and the Groningen Gas Field in the Netherlands (Schoonbeek, 1977) have been studied as to the effect of petroleum production on subsidence.…”

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Land Subsidence Along the Texas Gulf Coast Due to Oil and Gas Withdrawal

Khorzad¹

1999

Environ Geosci

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Land subsidence caused by groundwater withdrawal in the Houston–Galveston region is a well‐documented phenomenon. Subsidence of up to 3 m has been calculated in the region since 1905. Subsidence caused by hydrocarbon withdrawal is also a plausible cause of subsidence, where groundwater withdrawal has diminished and significant petroleum production has occurred for> 95 years. Sixteen fields were investigated by acquiring reservoir depressurization data near bore‐hole extensometers set up by the Houston–Galveston Coastal Subsidence District. All reservoirs were found to be well below hydrostatic pressure; a few of them were underpressured even before production began. Four oil and gas fields (the Mykawa, Satsuma, Dyersdale, and South Gillock) and three production zones (the Miocene, Frio, and Yegua) were used in a reservoir model and a boundary clay reservoir model to calculate subsidence. Subsidence under these fields is predicted to be as high as 0.44 m in a 19‐year period at the Satsuma field and as low as 0.02 m in a 22‐year period at the Dyersdale field. Implications of this study are (1) hydrocarbon production, although not the major contributor to most land surface subsidence in this area, does play a role; and (2) depressurization and, subsequently, subsidence from oil and gas fields may be regional and connected with other fields which is inferred from the fact that some fields were already underpressured before production began.

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“…According to Pratt and Johnson (1926), the subsidence "bowl" was about 2.5 miles (4.0 kilometers) long and 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) wide by 1925. Subsidence at the center was about 3.25 feet (1 meter).…”

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Land-surface subsidence in the area of Burnett, Scott, and Crystal Bays near Baytown, Texas

Gabrysch¹,

Bonnet²

1974

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Local Subsidence of the Goose Creek Oil Field

Cited by 190 publications

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Water-level altitudes 2017 and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers and compaction 1973–2016 in the Chicot and Evangeline Aquifers, Houston-Galveston region, Texas

Water-level altitudes 2017 and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers and compaction 1973–2016 in the Chicot and Evangeline Aquifers, Houston-Galveston region, Texas

Land Subsidence Along the Texas Gulf Coast Due to Oil and Gas Withdrawal

Land-surface subsidence in the area of Burnett, Scott, and Crystal Bays near Baytown, Texas

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