...Thomas E. Ewing; Malcolm P. R. Light; Noel Tyler ABSTRACT Studies of the Pleasant Bayou 1 and 2 test wells and of data from the Chocolate Bayou oil and gas field have yielded the most complete picture of a geopressured geothermal aquifer system yet obtained from the Texas Gulf Coast. The principal...

...D. G. Bebout; R. G. Loucks; A. R. Gregory ABSTRACT In July 1978, the General Crude Oil and Department of Energy 1 Pleasant Bayou geopressured geothermal test well was spudded near the Chocolate Bayou field, Brazoria County, Texas, on a site identified through regional and detailed geologic...

...Lynton S. Land; Kitty L. Milliken Abstract Tremendous quantities of detrital feldspar have been dissolved or albitized below about 14,000 ft (4,267 m) in the Frio Formation (Oligocene), Chocolate Bayou Field, Brazoria County, Texas. Some sandstones no longer contain any unmodified detrital feldspar...

... as the western Jefferson County graben; the Red Fish Reef-South Mayes complex of Chambers County; the Chocolate Bayou complex, Danbury dome, and the Chenango complex of Brazoria County; and the Old Ocean complex of Matagorda County exhibit lithologic anomalies coincident with the area of their structural...

...Figure 5 —Depth variations in selected components from Chocolate Bayou and Alta Loma fields, Houston embayment. Saline, Ca-rich water dominates within hard geopressured zone in sand-rich Chocolate Bayou field, whereas low-salinity, acetate-type water dominates nearby Alta Loma field below...

... ; Loucks et al, 1977 , 1979 , 1980 ; Bebout et al, 1978 ). In this study, cores from 10 wells in the Chocolate Bayou field ( Fig. 1 ) were used to study burial diagenesis, utilizing a combination of petrographic and geochemical techniques. 1 Published with the permission of the Director...

..., hydrocarbon accumulation, and salinities—Chocolate Bayou field, Brazoria County, Texas : Jour. Petroleum Technology , v. 22 , p. 411 – 423 . Fowler , W. A. , et al , 1971 , Abnormal pressures in Midland field, Louisiana, in Abnormal subsurface pressure: a study group report 1969-971 : Houston...

... series include the Crockett member and Weches member as described in this paper. Vaughan, 5 in 1896, gave the name Cocksfield Ferry beds to the series of non-marine sand and lignitic, chocolate shales occurring above the St. Maurice beds on Saline Bayou at St. Maurice and below the basal Jackson...

... and reflections by numerous companies and was leased by the Humble Oil and Refining Company. The McCarthy well was drilled on acreage farmed out by the Humble, after they had completed two deep dry holes. The discovery well is the second deepest producer in the state. Chocolate Bayou .—This Brazoria County...

.... , Open-File Report 75-311 . Mauk F. J. (1982) . Microseismic monitoring of Chocolate Bayou Texas: the Pleasant Bayou No. 2 geopressured/geothermal energy test well program, 1981 Annual Progress Report , Technical Report No. 82-2...

..., and 22 important extensions. The most active fields were Chocolate Bayou and Old Ocean, Brazoria County; South Liberty, Liberty County, and Port Neches, Orange County. Several important new reservoirs, new sands and extensions were discovered in these fields. Important new reservoirs, new sands...

... Frio samples from the Chocolate Bayou, West Columbia, and Algoa-Orchard fields. ...

... to have been depressions in the plain of the Lake Charles soils. Although they are not uncommon in the middle of inter-stream areas, and although in places their occurrence is without relation to drainage systems, the Acadia soils more characteristically lie in belts bordering Buffalo Bayou and its...

.... Prize objectives in the Texas Upper Gulf Coast area are the flanks of salt domes and off-shore structures. Deeper drilling may be the greatest of all exploration media, particularly in the lower Frio trend. Under completion at the close of 1952 was a Brazoria County Chocolate Bayou field new pay...

... Chocolate Bayou field, Brazoria County. —Phillips Petroleum drilled Houston Farms No. 1-DD to total depth of 16,027 ft. and found 50 ft. net effective gas condensate pay from 14,800 to 14,885 ft. This prolific well was bottomed in the lower Vicksburg and plugged back for completion in the Textularia...

... is located approximately 2.5 km southeast of RWV. The Danbury salt dome is very close to these wells, occurring approximately 2.5 km north of RWV. The study wells are also approximately 40 km southwest of the Chocolate and Halls Bayou fields, in which the shales have been well studied (e.g., Hower et al...

... is being recovered as a by-product of gas production. Chocolate Bayou , also in Brazoria County, is in the same category, but more extensive drilling might result in promising disclosures. Caplen, South China , and Martha have been definitely established as oil pools but none of these deserves more...