Petroleum systems and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Raton Basin – Sierra Grande Uplift Province, Colorado and New Mexico — USGS Province 41

Higley, Debra K.

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“…In accordance with this result, a several‐fold increase in accumulation rates is well documented by reconstructed burial histories based on drilled stratigraphic thicknesses, vitrinite reflectance values, and estimated peak temperatures [ Higley , ]. The long‐term accumulation history for the Homer Smith no.…”

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Detrital record of initial basement exhumation along the Laramide deformation front, southern Rocky Mountains

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New geochronological constraints on upper crustal exhumation in the southern Rocky Mountains help delineate the latest Cretaceous–Paleogene history of drainage reorganization and landscape evolution during Laramide flat‐slab subduction beneath western North America. Detrital zircon U‐Pb results for the Raton basin of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico define the inception of coarse‐grained siliciclastic sedimentation and a distinctive shift in provenance, from distal to proximal sources, that recorded shortening‐related uplift and unroofing along the Laramide deformation front of the northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains. This Maastrichtian–early Paleocene (~70–65 Ma) change—from distal foreland accumulation of sediment derived from the thin‐skinned Cordilleran (Sevier) fold‐thrust belt to coarse‐grained sedimentation proximal to a Laramide basement block uplift—reflects cratonward (eastward) deformation advance and reorganization of drainage systems that supplied a large volume of Paleocene–lower Eocene sediments to the Gulf of Mexico. The timing of unroofing along the eastern deformation front is synchronous with basement‐involved shortening across the interior of the Laramide province, suggesting abrupt wholesale uplift rather than a systematic inboard advance of deformation. The growth and infilling of broken foreland basins within the interior and margins of the Laramide province had a significant impact on continental‐scale drainage systems, as several ponded/axial Laramide basins trapped large volumes of sediment and induced reorganization of major source‐to‐sink sediment pathways.

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“…1 well locality in central Raton basin (see Figure ). Modified from Higley [, Figure 11], based on vitrinite reflectance data from Close [1988].…”

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Detrital record of initial basement exhumation along the Laramide deformation front, southern Rocky Mountains

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“…20). The geology and resource potential of the Raton Basin is thoroughly discussed by various authors (Shaw, 1958;Baltz, 1965;Woodward, 1983;Higley, 2007) and is not restated here with the exception of the following brief summary.…”

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“…Cretaceous rocks in the Raton Basin were deposited along the southwestern margin of the Western Interior Seaway and range from fluvial and coastal sandstones to shallow carbonates and deeper-water shales. Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary strata have been identified by various authors as documenting the initial stages of the Laramide orogeny in the Raton Basin (Higley, 2007).Thrusting and uplifting changed the topography of the region, and the retro-arc foreland depositional environment of the Cretaceous was replaced by a more fluvial and lacustrine dominated environment with multiple sources of sediments from the newly uplifted mountains (Dolly and Meissner, 1977). Woodward (1983) cites early gas shows in the Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone from the late 1970s; however, production was considered to be disappointing early on.…”

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“…The dominance of terrigenous rocks over generally more productive marine sandstones and a lack of deeper tests have been mentioned as possible explanations for poor hydrocarbon productivity. The majority of hydrocarbon production comes from coalbed methane in the Vermejo and Raton Formations of the Upper Cretaceous to middle Paleocene age (Higley, 2007). Production in the Raton Basin oil and gas province totaled approximately 4,325 barrels of oil, 300 BCFG, and 3,570 billion cubic feet of CO 2 cumulatively by 2003 (Higley, 2007).…”

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Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources—Southern Rocky Mountain Basins: Chapter M in <i>Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources</i>

Merrill¹,

Drake²,

Buursink³

et al. 2016

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The U.S. Geological Survey has completed an assessment of the potential geologic carbon dioxide storage resources in the onshore areas of the United States. To provide geological context and input data sources for the resources numbers, framework documents are being prepared for all areas that were investigated as part of the national assessment. This report is the geologic framework document for the Uinta and Piceance, San Juan, Paradox, Raton, Eastern Great, and Black Mesa Basins, and subbasins therein of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. In addition to a summary of the geology and petroleum resources of studied basins, the individual storage assessment units (SAUs) within the basins are described and explanations for their selection are presented. Although appendixes in the national assessment publications include the input values used to calculate the available storage resource, this framework document provides only the context and source of the input values selected by the assessment geologists. Spatial-data files of the boundaries for the SAUs, and the well-penetration density of known well bores that penetrate the SAU seal, are available for download with the release of this report.

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Mitigation and Optimization of Induced Seismicity Using Physics‐Based Forecasting

Hill,

Weingarten,

Langenbruch

et al. 2024

JGR Solid Earth

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Fluid injection can induce seismicity by altering stresses on pre‐existing faults. Here, we investigate minimizing induced earthquake potential by optimizing injection operations in a physics‐based forecasting framework. We built a 3D finite element model of the poroelastic crust for the Raton Basin, Central US, and used it to estimate time dependent Coulomb stress changes due to 25 years of wastewater injection in the region. Our finite element model is complemented by a statistical analysis of the seismogenic index (SI), a proxy for critically stressed faults affected by variations in the pore pressure. Forecasts of seismicity rate from our hybrid physics‐based statistical model suggest that induced seismicity in the Raton Basin, from 2001 to 2022, is still driven by wastewater injection despite declining injection rates since 2011. Our model suggests that pore pressure diffusion is the dominant cause of Coulomb stress changes at seismogenic depth, with poroelastic stress changes contributing about 5% to the driving force. Linear programming optimization for the Raton Basin reveals that it is feasible to reduce earthquake potential for a given amount of injected fluid (safety objective) or maximize fluid injection for a prescribed earthquake potential (economic objective). The optimization tends to spread out high‐rate injectors and shift them to regions of lower SI. The framework has practical importance as a tool to manage injection rate per unit field area to reduce induced earthquake potential. Our optimization framework is both flexible and adaptable to mitigate induced earthquake potential in other regions and for other types of subsurface fluid injection.

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Petroleum systems and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Raton Basin – Sierra Grande Uplift Province, Colorado and New Mexico — USGS Province 41

Cited by 10 publications

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Detrital record of initial basement exhumation along the Laramide deformation front, southern Rocky Mountains

Detrital record of initial basement exhumation along the Laramide deformation front, southern Rocky Mountains

Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources—Southern Rocky Mountain Basins: Chapter M in <i>Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources</i>

Mitigation and Optimization of Induced Seismicity Using Physics‐Based Forecasting

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