Petroleum reservoirs within a spiculite-dominated depositional sequence: Cowley Formation (Mississippian: Lower Carboniferous), south-central Kansas

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1649-1689

  Mazzullo, S J ^a   Wilhite, Brian W ^b   Woolsey, I Wayne ^b,c,d,e  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Woolsey Operating Company   (United States)

^c Woolsev Energy Corporation

^d American Pipeline Company   (United States)

^e Bluestem Gas Marketing

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GASOLINE; OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; SEA LEVEL; SHALE; SILICA; STRATIGRAPHY;

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; HIGHSTAND SYSTEMS TRACT; OIL AND GAS RESERVOIR; SATURATED RESERVOIRS; SHALLOW WATER CARBONATES; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

CARBONATE ROCK; CARBONIFEROUS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DRILLING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GAS; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; LITHOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MODEL TEST; OIL; PARASEQUENCE; RESERVOIR; SEA LEVEL; SHALLOW WATER; SILICIFICATION;

KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76249090544     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/06220909026     Document Type: Article

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