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Four Corners Geological Society

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Geology of Parts of Paradox, Black Mesa and San Juan Basins, Four Corners Field Conference, 1955
Pages 144-149

Stratigraphic Gas Development in the Blanco Mesa Verde Pool of the San Juan Basin

R. W. Allen Jr.

Abstract

The Blanco-Mesa Verde gas pool was discovered in 1926 by the Huntington Park Oil Company’s Geode No. 1, sec. 29, T30N, R9W, San Juan County, New Mexico. The area of present production is 64 miles long and 34 miles wide containing an estimated 847,800 acres. The pool lies in a large asymmetrical syncline. Gas production is from the Cliff House and Point Lookout sandstones of the Mesa Verde formation of the late Cretaceous.

Gas accumulation is controlled by lenticular sands and permeability and porosity changes within the individual sands. It is suggested that the gas production is coming from interfaces rather than from the sand bodies which have very low permeabilities and porosities. Initial well potentials range up to 30,000 MCF/D. The cumulative production on January 1, 1953, was 102,888,160 MCF.


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