Permean and Lower Triassic reservoir rocks of central Utah
Permian and Lower Triassic reservoir rocks throughout central Utah consist of beach and shallow water sandstones and shallow marine carbonates. These reservoirs are the Permian Cedar Mesa Sandstone, Toroweap Formation, White Rim Sandstone, Kaibab Formation, and the Lower Triassic Sinbad-Timpoweap carbonate member of the Moenkopi Formation. Depositional patterns of these stratigraphic units are controlled by the relative positions of the Oquirrh and Bird Spring basins and the Emery uplift which separates the 2. Hydrocarbon shows are found in all of the reservoirs, but generally increase in abundance upward in the stratigraphic sequence and the upper 2, the Kaibab and Sinbad, both produce commercial oil.
- OSTI ID:
- 6544518
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-7609218-
- Journal Information:
- Proc. Rocky Mt. Ass. Geol. Geol. of the Cordilleran Hingeline Symp.; (United States), Journal Name: Proc. Rocky Mt. Ass. Geol. Geol. of the Cordilleran Hingeline Symp.; (United States)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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