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Volume: 49 (1965)

Issue: 9. (September)

First Page: 1562

Last Page: 1562

Title: Lyons West Field, Rice County, Kansas: ABSTRACT

Author(s): B. J. Wright

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

The Lyons West field was discovered in March, 1963, 34 years after the first of four "dry holes" was drilled within the present productive area. Nomenclature inconsistencies and lack of the electric logs contributed to the Previous HitdelayNext Hit in recognizing the widespread continuity of the pre-Pennsylvanian sandstones which were called "Conglomerate," "Kinderhook," or "Misener," depending on their position in the basal Kansas City-Maquoketa section.

The limits of the field are essentially defined; it covers 5,000 acres, and has 104 wells producing from one or more of four contiguous sandstone bodies which comprise the Kinderhook bar. This bar, approximately 10 mi. long and 2 mi. wide, is composed of Simpson-derived sediments deposited in an embayment between the Chase-Silica section of the Central Kansas uplift and the Geneseo-Edwards peninsula.

The reservoir has a gas-solution and water drive with a series of successively higher gas caps and water levels from south to north formed by small noses across the bar.

This field inspired exploration which resulted in the later discovery of several smaller fields. The relationship between Lyons West and adjacent comparable production is speculative at this Previous HittimeTop.

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