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DOI:10.1306/13331492M983143

Petroleum Resources of the Great American Carbonate Bank

Charles A. Previous HitSternbachNext Hit1

1Star Creek Energy Company, Inc., Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This chapter has greatly benefited from the generous sharing with data and interpretation by IHS Energy and Pete Stark, Pete Rushworth, and John Wakefield of its staff. Readers and reviewers have offered excellent suggestions on content and presentation of the material. These include Linda Previous HitSternbachTop, Brenda Cunningham, Jim Derby, Rick Fritz, and Susan A. Longacre. The author dedicates this chapter to James Lee Wilson in gratitude for his perpetual inspiration.

AFTERWORD

“We are presently too willing to abandon wells on good structures with the first showing of Arbuckle-Ellenburger water. Today, the prospects of deeper production may appear dim. It must be realized, however, that we do not have all of the answers. The industry can certainly afford to drill more such wells through the Arbuckle-Ellenburger to granite and thereby explore the deeper producing possibilities. Much oil and gas has been produced from the Arbuckle-Ellenburger, and it seems that with continued exploration and development, the future possibilities are most promising” (Bartram, et al., 1949, p. 700).

ABSTRACT

This chapter contains hydrocarbon production statistics and maps for the great American carbonate bank reservoirs. Reservoir characteristics depend on depositional setting and subsequent modification by paleokarst processes and fractures. Trap styles include a wide variety of stratigraphic and structural accumulations. Hydrocarbon production occurs primarily at or near the Sauk-Tippecanoe unconformity in association with source rock and seal, but production can occur in strata many hundreds of feet below this unconformity. Strategies for optimizing exploration and production and a wide variety of analogs are discussed. It is hoped that improved understanding of historical production, along with application of new tools and insights, will lead to future discoveries in both old and new areas.

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