Willows-Beehive Bend gas field

Journal Article · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1968 · Mem. - Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5963987

Alkire, J

The Willows-Beehive Bend gas field is one of the largest California gas fields producing from strata of Cretaceous age. It is located centrally in the Sacramento Valley, 70 miles N. of Sacramento. As of Dec. 31, 1964, the field reserves were 109,895,480 Mcf of gas. A maximum of 8,560 productive acres was defined by the completion of 95 producers. Regionally the Willows-Beehive Bend anticline is near the center of the present-day Sacramento Valley syncline. All commercially productive wells are on the E., or upthrown side, of a major NW.- trending fault which bisects the anticline. The SE.- plunging anticline contains many small gas pools which collectively constitute a major gas field. Lenticularity of sandstone and minor faults control the gas entrapment. The Kione Formation contains fairly continuous sandstone bodies, and its gas reserves are in faulted structural traps.

• Research Organization: Mobil Oil Corp
• OSTI ID: 5963987
• Journal Information: Mem. - Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol.; (United States), Journal Name: Mem. - Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol.; (United States) Vol. 1:9; ISSN MAPGA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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