Scope and construction of a gas and oil atlas series of the Gulf of Mexico: Examples from Texas offshore lower Miocene plays
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
An atlas series about the offshore northern Gulf of Mexico will group gas and oil reservoirs into subregional plays and will display reservoir data on a computerized geographical information system. The atlas series will provide critically compiled reservoir engineering data to help the private sector explore and develop hydrocarbons and to help the public sector analyze the hydrocarbon endowment in this basin. In this report, we cover aspects of the play-analysis procedure and provide specific examples of lower Miocene plays from the upper Texas coast and Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Play analysis emphasizes using broad classes of structural style, depositional style and environments, and defining attributes to group reservoirs into plays. To date, we have identified 4 Oligocene and 25 Miocene plays in Texas State offshore waters and 115 plays in the Federal OCS. Texas State offshore plays are gas prone (cumulative production 3.7 TcF) and are preferentially trapped in rollover anticlines. Miocene plays include submarine-fan Lenticulina sandstones; progradational Dicorbis b., Siphonina d., Marginulina a., and Lenticulina sandstones; transgressive sandstones associated with a barrier-bar system in the Matagorda Area; and transgressive Amphistegina B sandstones. Particularly productive gas-prone plays are progradational Sihonina d. deltas in the High Island Area and progradational Marginulia a. shelf and deltaic sandstones in the Matagorda Island and Brazos Areas.
- OSTI ID:
- 45217
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941065-; CNN: Contract 5092-212-2324; TRN: 95:001437-0040
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 44. annual convention of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies and the 41st annual convention of the Gulf Coast Section of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Austin, TX (United States), 5-7 Oct 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies: Transactions. Volume 44; Major, R.P. [ed.]; PB: 847 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Oil and gas resource atlas series: Offshore Northern Gulf of Mexico. Annual report, November 1, 1993-October 31, 1994
Middle-upper Miocene exploration plays of offshore Texas