Download or read book Comparing the Depositional Environment of the Upper Smackover Formation in Southwestern Clarke County Mississippi and Brooklyn Little Cedar Creek Field Alabama written by Elsie E. Okoye and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research evaluated the depositional settings of the upper Smackover Formation in southwestern Clarke County (SCC), Mississippi and compared its facies to those of the Brooklyn and Little Cedar Creek Fields (BF/LCC) in Conecuh and Escambia Counties, Alabama. The Smackover Formation has been a prolific oil producing formation in the Gulf of Mexico since its discovery in Union County, Arkansas in 1937. The discovery of the LCC in 1994 and the BF in 2007 has generated additional interest in the Smackover. The BF/ LCC occur near the updip limit of the Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) Smackover Formation. These fields produce from oolitic/ oolmoldic stratigraphically trapped reservoirs in the upper Smackover Formation. In SCC, the Smackover extends farther updip than in the BF/LCC. SCC also has several small oil fields that have produced from the Smackover Formation since 1976. This research used resistivity well logs and core analyses of SCC fields and selected four fields with the most oolites and therefore, the highest potential for similarity to production in the BF/LCC. The resistivity logs and core analyses of these four fields were used to construct structure contour maps and cross-sections for each field, illustrating the Smackover facies in the region. Higher resolution resistivity logs and core analyses from the BF/LCC were also used to construct cross sections of that area. Lithofacies and logfacies were defined for the research and used to compare the BF/LCC and SCC. Interpretation of the cross sections and maps showed that the BF/LCC and SCC have similar depositional settings and also similar lithofacies/depositional sequence. The difference between the study areas are: a lack of mudstones lithofacies in the BF/LCC; differences in thickness of the upper Smackover and; differences in logfacies. The BF/LCC and SCC have substantial similarities in their depositional environment and sequence with the East Nancy field in SCC showing the most similarities to the BF/LCC.
Download or read book The Depositional Environment and Diagenesis of the Upper Smackover Member in Womack Hill Field Clarke and Choctaw Counties Alabama written by Roger Neal Townsend and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Updip Limit of the Smackover Formation in Clarke County Mississippi written by Benjamin Ross Breland and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this research was to map and determine the updip limit and locate reservoir potential of the Smackover Formation in southeast-central Mississippi. This subsurface study was conducted using well log correlation and analysis, structure top and isopach thickness mapping, 2-D seismic analysis, and core descriptions. The conclusions from the study led to an alternate interpretation of the Smackover updip limit affected by basement paleotopography in a possible ridge-valley complex similar to south Alabama based on evidence from Smackover isopach thickness, structure top map of a Pre-Smackover surface that represents underlying formations, and 2-D seismic analysis that agreed with the isopach pinch out. Evidence from two core observations from in the updip and downdip area revealed oomoldic porosity and dolomite lithologies with decreasing porosity and connectivity updip. Strong diagenetic features with no visible porosity were present in some core sections. Analysis to determine reservoir-grade porosity updip would be necessary.
Download or read book Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Smackover Formation Southwest Alabama written by Andrew S. Wilbourn and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smackover Formation is a highly productive producer of hydrocarbons throughout the United States Gulf Coast region. More than four million barrels of oil and five billion cubic feet of gas have been produced from the Smackover Formation in the Barnett Field in southwest Alabama. Paleohighs formed during the Paleozoic and salt tectonic relief features control sediment distribution of the Smackover Formation in southwest Alabama. The Smackover in Barnett Field is entirely dolomitized, but the carbonate texture at the time of deposition is still visible in thin section. The Smackover carbonates in Barnett Field were deposited in the near-shore area of a carbonate ramp environment. The Smackover may be divided into three lithologic facies in this area; an ooid grainstone, oncolite packstone, and algal mudstone. Smackover deposition is interpreted to represent a period of eustatic sea level rise. Modern interpretations suggest the Smackover may have been deposited in three sequences. The Smackover in Barnett Field appears to represent a single stratigraphic sequence. The distribution of the three Smackover facies in Barnett Field suggests the formation was deposited during a sea level highstand following a rapid sea level rise. Accommodation of Smackover sediment led to a relative shallowing of the near-shore environment. The shallowing caused a prograding infilling pattern into the basin. The Smackover facies correlate to characteristic porosity and permeability values making the ability to predict the occurrence of a single facies vital to petroleum exploration.
Download or read book Depositional and Diagenetic Characteristics of the Smackover Formation in the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin of Southwest Alabama written by Neil E. Moss and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Depositional Environment and Diagenesis of the Upper Member of the Smackover Formation Upper Jurassic Keoun Creek Field Columbia and Lafayette Counties Arkansas written by Mark Newton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Depositional Systems Analysis of the Kosciusko Formation Middle Claiborne Group in Southern Mississippi written by Robert Tyler Berry and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The middle Claiborne Kosciusko Formation is one of the primary water supplies for much of central and northwestern Mississippi. The formation consists of fluvial and deltaic sand, clay, and lignite, all of which comprises of a complex depositional system. In west-central Mississippi, the Kosciusko Formation contains upper and lower aquifer sands. These sand bodies rank fourth among the eleven most valuable water-bearing units in the state. The formation varies in thickness from approximately 1,000 feet (305 meters) near the Mississippi River in western Claiborne County to approximately 250 feet (76 meters) in Clarke County before grading to shale southward. This depositional systems analysis maps the net sands within the Kosciusko Formation using high-quality geophysical logs where possible. Sand body geometries, based on the net sand maps within this these, are compared with those of modern depositional systems to find modern analogues that best characterize the Kosciusko Formation.
Download or read book Depositional Environments and Diagenesis of the Upper Smackover Formation Hempstead County Arkansas written by Joseph Alan Schwab and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Depositional History of the Smackover Buckner Transition Eastern Mississippi Interior Salt Basin written by Steven D. Mann and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Facies Petrology and Diagenesis of Tuscaloosa Formation Sandstone Reservoirs in the McComb and Little Creek Oil Fields Southwest Mississippi written by Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stratigraphic Analysis and Despositional Environments of the Smackover Formation in the Conecuh Basin Escambia County Southwestern Alabama written by Richard Anthony Esposito and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sedimentary Structures as Possible Indicators of Depositional Environment in the McShan Formation Upper Cretaceous in Mississippi and Alabama written by Philip Ray Cook and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stratigraphy and Depositional Systems in the Mississippian Strata of the Appalachian Plateau Northwest Alabama written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recent Sedimentation on Horn Island Mississippi October 19 and 22 1960 and Stratigraphy of the Quaternary and Upper Tertiary of the Pascagoula Valley Mississippi written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of the Depositional Environments and Paleoecology of the Upper Pottsville Formation in the Black Warrior Basin Along Alabama State Highway 69 written by Robert Dale Pody and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Depositional Environments of the Pride Mountain Formation Mississippian written by Willis Howard Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Petrography and Diagenesis of Upper Smackover Formation Oxfordian Atlanta and Pine Tree Fields Southwestern Arkansas written by Thomas Carlton Boronow and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
