1: An Overview of the Giant Heterogeneous Mississippian Carbonate System of the Midcontinent: Ancient Structure, Complex Stratigraphy, Conventional Traps, and Unconventional Technology in a High Fluid Volume World
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Published:January 01, 2019
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Edith Newton Wilson, W. Lynn Watney, G. Michael Grammer, 2019. "An Overview of the Giant Heterogeneous Mississippian Carbonate System of the Midcontinent: Ancient Structure, Complex Stratigraphy, Conventional Traps, and Unconventional Technology in a High Fluid Volume World", Mississippian Reservoirs of the Midcontinent, G. Michael Grammer, Jay M. Gregg, James Puckette, Priyank Jaiswal, S. J. Mazzullo, Matthew J. Pranter, Robert H. Goldstein
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ABSTRACT
Exploration for hydrocarbons in Mississippian strata in Kansas and Oklahoma began in the 1900s. Early production came from open-hole completions in vertical wellbores at the apex of structural and stratigraphic traps. In the mid-20th century, cased-hole completions and hydraulic fracture stimulation allowed development of lower permeability zones. Recently operators began to explore and develop transition zones and low-permeability facies with horizontal drilling. The petroleum system that includes these accumulations consists of two hydrocarbon kitchens in the Arkoma and Anadarko basins, which have been generating oil and gas from the Woodford Shale since the beginning of the Pennsylvanian. Hydrocarbons charged...
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Mississippian Reservoirs of the Midcontinent
GeoRef
- Alfalfa County Oklahoma
- Anadarko Basin
- Arkansas
- Arkoma Basin
- carbonate rocks
- Carboniferous
- chemically precipitated rocks
- Cherokee Basin
- chert
- Colorado
- Comanche County Kansas
- directional drilling
- drilling
- gamma-ray methods
- Harper County Kansas
- heterogeneous materials
- history
- horizontal drilling
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kiowa County Kansas
- Midcontinent
- Mississippian
- Missouri
- oil and gas fields
- Oklahoma
- Osage County Kansas
- Paleozoic
- permeability
- petroleum
- petroleum engineering
- petroleum exploration
- porosity
- production
- reservoir rocks
- sedimentary rocks
- sequence stratigraphy
- stratigraphic traps
- traps
- United States
- well-logging
- Woodford Shale
- Glick Field
- Wellington Field
- conventional traps
- Greater Cherokee West Field