Abstract: Economics and Geology of the Natural Gas of North America

By

Joseph A. Kornfeld

Producers are showing continuing interest in deep, high pressure gas reserves that are found from 15,000 to 22,000 feet. The most important U.S. provinces containing deep reserves are:

1. The Gulf Coast Embayments, which produce from the Miocene, Oligocene, Paleocene, Eocene and Cretaceous.

2. The West Texas-New Mexico, Val Verde and Delaware Basins which produce from the deep Ordovician trend.

3. The Anadarko basin in which Siluro-Devonian-Hunton zones produce gas.

Descriptions of the extent of these basins and their geology are discussed, and the economics of gas from these basins is discussed in relation to the critical natural gas shortage.

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