Fort Payne production in the Oneida West Area, Scott County, Tennessee

Journal Article · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1971 · Ill., State Geol. Surv., Ill. Pet.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6048549

Statler, A T

A significant oil find in Tennessee is the Oneida West field, Scott County, a lower Mississippian Fort Payne discovery located on the Cumberland Plateau about 40 miles northwest of Knoxville. The field is situated on the SE. flank of the Cincinnati Arch. In this area, the Mississippian is overlain by about 900 ft of Pennsylvanian sandstones and shales. Regional dip is southeastward about 40 ft per mile. Production is from a fine- to medium-crystalline, noncherty, dolomitic limestone in the middle of the Fort Payne Formation. This limestone is overlain by tight siltstones and very fine-grained sandstones and is underlain by about 50 ft of very cherty, nonporous limestone and silicastone. Sample studies suggest that the productive limestones grade laterally into or pinch out against the nonporous cherty carbonates. Dry holes and edge wells have little or no noncherty limestones but do have a total carbonate interval at least as thick as that in the producing wells. Neutron and density logs indicate that the pay consists of one to 3 zones of porosity with a net thickness ranging from 3 to 30 ft. The type and distribution of production suggest that these zones are connected and that a gas cap is present in part of the field.

• OSTI ID: 6048549
• Journal Information: Ill., State Geol. Surv., Ill. Pet.; (United States), Vol. 95
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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