Sandstone beds, mostly in lower part, offer probable reservoirs in many areas. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. In addition to their being impractical for gas storage because of being freshwater aquifers, the Neogene beds lack impervious seals or sufficient overburden above what otherwise might be storage reservoirs. Mainly cherty, coarse-grained dolostones. Several oil fields lie above small anticlines that are near the Nemaha structure on each of its sides. Composed chiefly of limestone and often called the "Mississippi lime", Mississippian rocks underlie all of Kansas except on two major uplifts. Contains lead and zinc ores in southeastern Kansas. Later, insufficiency of new supplies of natural gas forced out of business those pipelines dependent upon declining reserves. Sandstone bodies probably offer structural and stratigraphic trap-like reservoirs. 137, p. 9-52. Such cavities, presently used for storing liquids, contain extensive mined-out space available for storage of gas (Jewett, 1956).
121, p. 1-167. Survey Bull. Thicker shales commonly varigated colors.
rewa The facilities are usually hollowed-out salt domes, geological reservoirs (depleted oil or gas field) or water bearing sands (called aquifers) topped by an impermeable cap rock. Thickness about 350 feet or less. The chief gas-producing zones are the Fort Riley Limestone (Barneston formation); Towanda Limestone (Doyle Shale); Winfield Limestone; and Krider and Herington Limestones (Nolans formation). 6, p. 105-172. . In places the shale is an effective "cap rock". 4) are properly differentiated, inasmuch as there is distinct thinning of Mississippian rocks in a belt separating them. Finished, the total storage capacity will be about 16 billion cubic feet, making it the largest in Kansas. Fresh-water-bearing beds of importance. This division has the Stone Corral (subsurface marker) Formation in the upper-middle part (and lies above more calcareous rocks of Wolfcampian age). Assoc. 3). These rocks identified in subsurface in Morton and Stanton Counties. Depths to potential reservoirs in Pennsylvanian rocks throughout the two basinal areas range from a few hundred to about 4,500 feet. Widespread in central and western Kansas, locally in eastern. It is believed that in almost all counties in the Forest City and Cherokee Basin area structural conditions can be found where porous Pennsylvanian rocks would be suited for gas storage. ("Basal conglomerate" of various ages within the Pennsylvanian System contains oil pools in several places.). Gas storage seemingly is possible but not now practicable in Arbuckle rocks. Average thickness about 80 feet. Commercial consumers totaled 61,000 during the year. Of the seven divisions, four (Neogene, Mesozoic, Permian-Pennsylvanian, and Mississippian) are present at the surface, but the others, (Devonian-Silurian, Ordovician-Cambrian, and Precambrian) are known in Kansas only from information obtained by deep drilling. Pervious sandstones in the upper part of. 147, p. 1-254. Depths range from a few hundred to 4,000 feet or more. 99, p. 1-230. Farther south in eastern Kansas there are conspicuous "highs" near Mound City, in Linn County; near Kincaid, in Anderson County; near Humboldt, in Allen County, and near Cherryvale, in Montgomery County. The Bonneterre Dolostone is widespread in eastern and western Kansas but is believed to be absent from the central part of the state. 23, p. 1-135. A significant portion of Kansas annual gas production is being exported, but estimates of amounts of natural gas used for industry in the state have risen within the last few years. During the year they consumed 202,557,000 M cubic feet valued at 20.4 cents per thousand. Its maximum known thickness is nearly 200 feet. 9, p. 313-348. It is deemed that interest in gas storage at the present time primarily concerns porous rocks that are in structural positions that cause them to be actual or potential reservoirs. Survey Bull, 26, p. 1-42. Total thickness about 2,750 feet. Conditions favorable to accumulation of gas in the Permian strata are due partly to the regional structure and partly to sedimentation. Lesser amounts have been obtained from rocks of Mississippian, Ordovician, and Cambrian age. Cherty, buff to white, very coarsely granular and crystalline dolostone. [available online], Jewett, J. M., and Newell, N. D. (1935) Geology of Wyandotte County, Kansas: Kansas Geol. The westward limits of gas-productive territory are along the zone of interfingering marine and nonmarine deposits. Kansas produces large amounts of natural gas, and large quantities are consumed within the state, especially in the eastern part. Surface in southwestern Kansas and subsurface in western Kansas. Porosity and permeability of these rocks are high. At the present time liquid hydrocarbons, principally liquified petroleum gas, are stored in Kansas in cavities artificially dissolved in Permian saltstone in the central and western part of the state (Jewett, 1955; 1956). Survey, v. 12, p. 1-59. During 1958 natural gas was produced from 49 counties in Kansas. There are comparatively thin but wide-spread deposits of probable "Tertiary" age in eastern Kansas. The large Denton Storage Area in Elk County was listed at a cost estimated at $4,337,000.00. In California, natural gas serves as an energy resource for several purposes including:electrical power generation,industrial use,residential use, and commercial use. These deposits now are almost confined to the area of the old Northeast Kansas Basin, an area in eastern Kansas northeast of a line from Phillips County to Cowley County and northwest of a line from Cowley County to Miami County. Phone: 202-366-4595 They are in form somewhat similar to the oil- and gas-bearing "shoestring sands" in the Cherokee Group (Pennsylvanian) in eastern Kansas. 41, pt. Depleted natural gas or oil fields function as gas storage reservoirs in California. Jewett, J. M., and Smith, R. K. (1949) Oil-bearing rocks in Kansas: Mines Magazine, v. 39, no. Other similar structures occur near Bonner Springs, De Soto, Eudora, and in several other places. Frye, J. C. (1949) Ground water in southwestern Kansas: Kansas Geol. There is no surface indication of this structure, inasmuch as the country is entirely covered by Neogene deposits that rest unconformably on Cretaceous or Permian rocks. Landes, K. K., and Keroher, R. P. (1938) Geology and oil and gas resources of Rush County, Kansas: Kansas Geol. 6, p. 217-260. Leonardian Stage including lower part of Nippewalla Group and the Sumner Group. The Ferguson and Denton fields will be operated as a single unit. [available online], Moore, R. C., and others (1951a) Geology, mineral resources, and groundwater resources of Chase County, Kansas: Kansas Geol. 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Depths to the known gas pools range from about 3,300 feet in Rice County to about 4,860 feet in Barber County. Some "structural traps" in Pennsylvanian rocks in eastern Kansas have no or very little surface indications; some structures that are traps in pre-Pennsylvanian sediments are completely concealed. Attention is called to Bulletin 89, "The Kansas Rock Column" by Moore and others (1951), and to a chart "Graphic Representation and Classification of Rocks in Kansas" (Jewett, 1959). Chiefly red beds of fine-grained sandstone, siltstone, and silty shale. Only a comparatively small number of oil and gas traps have been found along its axis. Glauconitic, noncherty dolostone. Depths to potential reservoirs in Pennsylvanian rocks commonly are slightly in excess of 3,000 feet. The very prolific Hugoton gas-producing area is in southwestern Kansas within the larger area. Dolomitic limestones and sandstones; thickens from beveled edge to about 100 feet. In passing it may be mentioned that thick salt deposits higher in the Permian beds are suitable for washed-out cavities. 127, pt. (* Population (unofficial) from 1960 Census.). The Hugoton Gas Area alone accounted for about 69 percent of the total Kansas yield of gas in 1957, 73 percent in 1956, 85 percent in 1955 and 1954, 92 percent in 1953, 90 percent in 1952 and 1951, 88 percent in 1950. Parts of sec. They indicate deviations from the general or regional westward dip of outcropping rocks. Outcropping and other rocks above the crystalline basement complex (Precambrian) and data more or less pertinent to gas storage are listed in Table 1. 2, p. 151-162. Examples of oil and gas production from Lansing and Kansas City limestones are the Cunningham field in Kingman and Pratt Counties, the Macksville field (abandoned) in Stafford County, and the English field in Edwards County. Oil-bearing rocks of lower-Middle and of Lower Pennsylvanian age in deep subsurface in southwestern Kansas. Thickness ranges to slightly more than 300 feet. Although there are deposits in western Kansas believed to be of Jurassic and Triassic age (Table 1), most of the Mesozoic rocks of the state are Cretaceous. pressure 295 lb.
Electronic Mail Address: "Stratigraphic" traps suitable for gas storage are believed to be plentiful, especially in post-Paleozoic rocks in western Kansas at a depth of about 5,000 feet. Parts of sec. An underground gas storage project includes the reservoir used for storage, the confining strata, gas storage wells, observation wells, and any other wells approved for use in the project. Placed on web Oct. 3, 2018; originally published in 1960. B., and Swineford, Ada (1956) Stratigraphy of the Ogallala Formation (Neogene) of northern Kansas: Kansas Geol. Sandy dolomite and fine-grained sandstone. Middle Pennsylvanian tectonic movements segregated areas in Kansas that now conveniently serve as petroliferous provinces (Moore and Jewett, 1942, fig. Mostly stream deposits; where thin, high above present drainage. Total storage capacity for natural gas in Kansas is 99,434,882 M cubic feet. Thickness about 40 feet. ; withdrawals direct from pipelineno compressors. The Hugoton Gas Area proper was opened in 1922 by a well in sec. Greenish-gray, silty, dolomitic shale restricted principally to area of ancient Northeast Kansas Basin. geoinfo@canada.ca, Natural Gas Underground Storage - North American Cooperation on Energy Information. 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 26. Storage of gas in the Hugoton Area can be expected in the foreseeable future to be feasible as a gas-pressure maintenance program. There seem to be no reasons that similar "salt jugs" could not be utilized for storing gas. (1940) Geological studies in southwestern Kansas: Kansas Geol. At the end of 1958, there were 30 gas fields in Kansas under state jurisdiction, and monthly proration schedules were issued for 22 fields. Abernathy, G. E. (1943) Deep water well at the Jayhawk Ordnance Works in Cherokee County, Kansas: Kansas Geol. 1, p. 1-16. Smith, H. T. U. Survey Bull. Add to overburden. Presently, about 70 percent of the production comes from the Kansas part of the Hugoton Gas Area, which extends into Oklahoma and Texas. 10). In much of Kansas, Mississippian limestones are underlain by a rock section that is chiefly shale. Survey Bull. An Acrobat PDF version (5.4 MB) is also available. Principally shales, limestones, and sandstones; a few thin coal beds. Thickness of these rocks ranges from a featheredge on the flanks of the late-Paleozoic uplifts to about 1,800 feet. 32, 33, T. 22 S., R. 19 E; 1, 12, 13, T. 23 S., R. 19 E; 5, 6, 8, T. 23 S., R. 19 E. Parts of sec. Survey Bull. Generally not more than 100 feet thick. All these rock units are in positions that are close to horizontaL Only on the flanks of major uplifts and very locally elsewhere are dips measured in angles of more than a fraction of a degree. Thickness about 1,250 feet. Igneous and metamorphic rocks of the basement complex. Lower part contains some sandstone. Frye, J. C., and Leonard, A. Surface in southwestern and subsurface in western Kansas. The URL for this page is http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/OGI21/index.html. 4) are quite distinct from earlier and later ones (Jewett, 1958, 1960), and are almost without any indications in surface rocks. More or less similar to units next above. 72, p. 1-140. Main divisions are the Boice Shale (above) and the Chattanooga Shale (Table 1). For present purposes, Kansas east of the Nemaha Anticline may be regarded as a unit, but it is well to note that the so-called basins are extremely broad structures and were separate areas of deposition during an extremely brief interval of time in the middle part of the Pennsylvanian period. Thick deposits of salt in the subsurface. Survey Bull, 90, pt. Consolidated rocks that now are exposed at the surface in the area dip gently westward and constitute the late Paleozoic or early Mesozoic Prairie Plains Monocline (Jewett, 1951, p. 152), which properly should be recognized as extending, under cover, well into northwestern Kansas (Jewett and Merriam, 1959, fig.
The Agencies and Institutions participants give no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. Known oil and gas reservoirs are present throughout almost the whole Pennsylvanian rock section in Kansas. Mapping Resources implemented as part of the North American Cooperation on Energy Information (NACEI) between the Department of Energy of the United States of America, the Department of Natural Resources of Canada, and the Ministry of Energy of the United Mexican States.
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