AAPG Studies in Geology No. 50,
(Section Title: Reservoir Permeability, Modeling, and Simulation Studies) Chapter 15:
Facies Architecture and Permeability Structure of Valley-Fill Sandstone Bodies, Cretaceous
Ferron Sandstone, Utah, by Mark D. Barton, Noel Tyler, and Edward S. Angle, Pages 383 - 404
from:
AAPG Studies in Geology No. 50: Regional
to Wellbore Analog for Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoir Modeling: The Ferron Sandstone of Utah,
Edited by Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., Roy D. Adams, and Thomas H. Morris
Copyright © 2004 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the
Society of Exploration Geophysicists. All rights reserved.
Reservoir Permeability, Modeling, and
Simulation Studies
Chapter 15:
Facies Architecture and Permeability Structure of Valley-Fill Sandstone Bodies,
Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah
Mark D. Barton1, Noel Tyler2, and
Edward S. Angle3
1Shell International Exploration and Production Inc., Houston, Texas
2ARC Group, LLC, Leander, Texas
3Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas
ABSTRACT
Exposures of the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Cretaceous Mancos Shale
formation, east-central Utah provide large-scale cross-sectional views of valley-fill
sandstone bodies within a well-constrained sequence stratigraphic framework. Quantitative
data collected from these outcrops help constrain the modeling of interwell volumes of
analogous valley-fill reservoirs and permit a better evaluation of reservoir potential.
The study has implications for how heterogeneities should be modeled in analogous
reservoirs. Differences in net-to-gross, connectivity, and petrophysical property
structure of valley-fill deposits can be related to stratigraphic stacking pattern
(progradational versus aggradational) and position along depositional profile (proximal
versus distal).
