Petroleum systems and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Anadarko Basin Province, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas: USGS Province 58

Higley, Debra K.

doi:10.3133/ds69ee

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“…Generation and migration of oil and gas northward from the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma and Texas began during Mississippian and lasted through Permian time, and was tied to basin downwarping and increased sediment deposition (Higley, 2014a). The resulting widespread accumulations of oil and gas in eastern Colorado, western and central Kansas, and western and central Oklahoma are the source of pressure data for the Paleozoic potentiometric maps of this paper.…”

Section: Geologic and Hydrologic Settingmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Hydrocarbon generation in the Anadarko Basin created overpressured conditions that extended northward as far as the Oklahoma-Kansas border before retreating southward to the deep basin (Nelson and Gianoutsos, 2014a). It appears that overpressured strata in Oklahoma have blocked the migration of highly saline pore waters in north-central Oklahoma, as will be illustrated in this paper.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Local zones of overpressure at scales up to 48 km (30 mi) have been ignored to produce a smoothly varying surface. In earlier work, a method using software developed for processing geophysical potential-field data and incorporating filtering operations was used to select representative head values (Nelson and Gianoutsos, 2014b). In the present work, data were processed in orthogonal swaths and examined in a three-dimensional (3-D) viewer.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As the separation S−H gets larger, the pressure: depth ratio P/D becomes smaller. Hence, maps of separation S−H, such as those displayed by Helgesen et al (1993) and Nelson and Gianoutsos (2014b), are indicative of trends in P/D but do not correlate directly with P/D. Equations 2 and 3 show that P/D depends on the dimensionless ratio formed by taking the difference between two surfaces and dividing by the depth, which is the difference between land surface and test elevation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Expanded studies of the Midcontinent further demonstrated the large extent of the system and the need for regional studies to understand the complete hydrological system Jorgensen et al, 1993). Our previous study sought to unravel the mix of overpressured conditions in the deep Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma with the normally pressured and underpressured conditions found on the northern and western flanks of the basin (Nelson and Gianoutsos, 2014a). Sorenson (2005) provided key insights on the expansion of gas into the present-day Hugoton gas field of southwestern Kansas, an expansion that occurred concurrently with the development of regional Geological Survey (2010-2014.…”

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Underpressure in Mesozoic and Paleozoic rock units in the Midcontinent of the United States

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A B S T R A C TPotentiometric surfaces for Paleozoic strata, based on water well levels and selected drill-stem tests, reveal the control on hydraulic head exerted by outcrops in eastern Kansas and Oklahoma. From outcrop in the east, the westward climb of hydraulic head is much less than that of the land surface, with heads falling so far below land surface that the pressure:depth ratio in eastern Colorado is less than 5.7 kPa/m (0.25 psi/ft). Permian evaporites separate the Paleozoic hydrogeologic units from a Lower Cretaceous (Dakota Group) aquifer, and a highly saline brine plume pervading Paleozoic units in central Kansas and Oklahoma is attributed to dissolution of Permian halite. Underpressure also exists in the Lower Cretaceous hydrogeologic unit in the Denver Basin, which is hydrologically separate from the Paleozoic units. The data used to construct the seven potentiometric surfaces were also used to construct seven maps of pressure:depth ratio. These latter maps are a function of the differences among hydraulic head, landsurface elevation, and formation elevation. As a consequence, maps of pressure:depth ratio reflect the interplay of three topologies that evolved independently with time. As underpressure developed, gas migrated in response to the changing pressure regime, most notably filling the Hugoton gas field in southwestern Kansas. The timing of underpressure development was determined by the timing of outcrop exposure and tilting of the Great Plains. Explorationists in western Kansas and eastern Colorado should not be surprised if a reservoir is underpressured; rather, they should be surprised if it is not.

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Section: Geologic and Hydrologic Settingmentioning

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Section: Geologic and Hydrologic Settingmentioning

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Underpressure in Mesozoic and Paleozoic rock units in the Midcontinent of the United States

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Clay mineral diagenesis in alternating mudstone‐sandstone beds from Late Palaeozoic strata of the Anadarko Basin, United States

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Closely interbedded mudstone and sandstone are rarely the focus of clay mineral diagenetic studies; as such, it is not understood if these various rock types follow the same or different diagenetic pathway(s) during burial. Over a depth span of $2,300 to 4,200 m, 95 core samples of alternating Pennsylvanian mudstone/sandstone from the hydrocarbon-rich Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma have been characterized petrographically, mineralogically, and chemically. The investigated fine-grained sediment is argillaceous to siliceous mudstone, dominated by Illite/mica and mixed-layer illitesmectite. The sandstone is variably classified as quartz and mudclast-rich litharenite to sub-litharenite, which is commonly carbonate-cemented. This contribution provides evidence for a very similar diagenetic evolution of the clay mineral assemblages across all rock types despite the discrepancies in porosity and permeability of the host rock. We posit that the incorporation of micrometre-scale mudclasts through bioturbation of the sandstone may explain the relatively uniform compositional characteristics of illite-smectite, chlorite, and kaolinite. Inferences are drawn from a detailed clay mineral quantification of these interbedded lithologies aid to our understanding of the clay mineral distribution and speciation in Pennsylvanian strata of the Anadarko Basin, which further helps to constrain the reservoirs' physical, chemical, and structural properties.

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Efficient separation of methane, ethane and propane on mesoporous metal-organic frameworks

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Chemical Engineering Journal

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Petroleum systems and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Anadarko Basin Province, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas: USGS Province 58

Cited by 19 publications

References 46 publications

Underpressure in Mesozoic and Paleozoic rock units in the Midcontinent of the United States

Underpressure in Mesozoic and Paleozoic rock units in the Midcontinent of the United States

Clay mineral diagenesis in alternating mudstone‐sandstone beds from Late Palaeozoic strata of the Anadarko Basin, United States

Efficient separation of methane, ethane and propane on mesoporous metal-organic frameworks

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