Open-File Reports

1990's || 2000's

These reports are concerned with energy resources in Kansas and have been placed online. A complete listing of KGS open-file reports can be viewed using the KGS List of Open File Reports

1999

1999-55: Kansas Oil and Gas Exploration; 10 Year History and Future Strategies by Paul Gerlach
99-47: Integrating Plug to Well-Scale Petrophysics with Detailed Sedimentology to Quantify Fracture, Vug, and Matrix Properties in Carbonate Reservoirs: An Example from the Arbuckle Group, Kansas by Alan P. Byrnes, Evan K. Franseen, and D. Mark Steinhauff
99-22: Improved Oil Recovery in Mississippian Carbonate Reservoirs of Kansas - Near Term - Class 2: 1998 Annual Report, by Dana Adkins-Heljeson, Saibal Bhattacharya, Tim Carr, Evan Franseen, Paul Gerlach, Willard Guy, John Hopkins, W. Lynn Watney
99-19: 1999 Digital Petroleum Atlas Annual Report by Lee C. Gerhard, Timothy R. Carr, Dana Adkins-Heljeson,Saibal Bhattacharya, Paul Gerlach, Willard Guy, Robert O'Dell, Ken Stalder, W. Lynn Watney

1998

98-56: 1998 Kansas Oil & Gas Production and Value by Timothy R. Carr
98-55: Arbuckle Reservoirs in Central Kansas: Relative Importance of Depositional Facies,Early Diagenesis and Unconformity Karst Processes on Reservoir Properties by D. Mark Steinhauff, Evan K. Franseen, Alan P. Byrnes, and Jason R. Cansler
98-50: 1998 Kansas Oil and Gas Production: An Examination of the Importance of Stripper Production by Timothy R. Carr and Paul M. Gerlach
98-48: A Field Assessment of the Feasibility of Using Borehole GPR at the Geohydrologic Experimental and Monitoring Site, Lawrence, KS by Alex Martinez and James J. Butler, Jr.
98-44: High-Resolution Seismic Survey of the Minneola Complex, Southwest Kansas by Joseph M. Kruger
98-29: PC-Based Reservoir Simulation using U.S. Department of Energy's BOAST 3 and Enhanced Post Processing Tools by Saibal Bhattacharya and Paul Gerlach
98-28: Internet for the Petroleum Industry by Tim Carr, Dana Adkins-Heljeson and Ken Stalder

1997

97-64: 1997 Kansas Oil and Gas Production:An Examination of the Importance of Stripper Production by Timothy R. Carr and Paul M. Gerlach
97-24: Improved Oil Recovery in Mississippian Carbonate Reservoirs of Kansas--Near Term--Class 2, by Timothy R. Carr, G. Paul Willhite, Dana Adkins-Heljeson, Scott Beaty, Saibal Bhattacharya, Evan Franseen, Paul Gerlach, Willard Guy, John Hopkins, W. Lynn Watney, Rodney Reynolds, Shapour Vossoughi, and G. Paul Willhite.
97-22: Source Code for the Pseudoseismic Transform, by John F. Hopkins
97-14: Digital Petroleum Atlas Annual Report--1996, by Lee C. Gerhard, Timothy R. Carr, W.Lynn Watney, Paul Gerlach, Dana Adkins-Heljeson, Willard Guy, Joseph M. Kruger, Ken Stalder, Saibal Bhattacharya and Wyatt Weeks

1996

96-50: Seismic Modeling in the Minneola Complex, Ford and Clark Counties, Kansas: Differentiating Thin-Bedded Morrow Sandstones From Shale in Lower Pennsylvanian Channel Fill, by Joseph M. Kruger
96-49: A High-Frequency Ground-Penetrating Radar Study of The Drum Limestone, Montgomery County, Kansas, by Joseph M. Kruger, Alex Martinez, and Evan K. Franseen
96-37: The Future of Scientific Communication in the Earth Sciences: The Impact of the Internet, by Timothy R. Carr, Rex C. Buchanan, Dana Adkins-Heljeson, Thomas D. Mettille, and Janice Sorensen
96-36: Three-Dimensional Characterization of a Fluvial Sandstone Reservoir Analog in Northeast Kansas Using High-Resolution Ground-Penetrating Radar, by Alex Martinez, D. Scott Beaty, Howard R. Feldman, and Joseph M. Kruger
96-11: Distribution and thickness of the Cimarron Salt (Lower Permian) in southern Stafford and northern Pratt Counties, Kansas, by Alex Martinez, Neil L. Anderson, and Tim Carr

1995

95-42: Kansas Oil and Gas Production Trends 1995, by Timothy R. Carr and Doug Beene
95-39: The Use of Computer Workstations in the Study of Environmental Geology: Integration of Geophysical and Geologic Data, by Alex Martinez, John F. Hopkins, Howard R. Feldman, Alan J. Feltz, Tim Carr, John H. Doveton, David R. Collins, Ross Black, and Neil L. Anderson
no number: 2-D and 3-D Pseudo-Seismic Transforms of Wireline Logs: A Seismic Approach to Petrophysical Sequence Stratigraphy by Tim Carr, John Hopkins, Howard Feldman, Alan Feltz, John Doveton, Dave Collins