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

99-55: Kansas Oil and Gas Exploration; 10 Year History and Future Strategies, by Paul Gerlach
99-50: Controls on Osagean-Meramecian (Mississippian) Ramp Development in Central Kansas; Implications for Paleogeography and Paleo-Oceanography, by Evan K. Franseen
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.
98-46: Report to United States Department of Interior, National Park Service: Petroleum Geology and Oil and Gas Operations in Chase County with Emphasis on the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, by Timothy R. Carr
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
97-15: Oil-gravity and Depth Data for Oil Fields in the Forest City Basin of Northeastern Kansas, Southeastern Nebraska, and Northwestern Missouri, by K. David Newell
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

1994

94-11: Kansas Oil and Gas Production Trends, by Timothy R. Carr

1993

93-49: Regional gamma-ray gray-tone intensity images of the Permian-Cretaceous sequence of western Kansas, by David R. Collins, John H. Doveton, and P. A. Macfarlane

1991

91-52: Midcontinent core workshop; integrated studies of petroleum reservoirs in the midcontinent, Midcontinent AAPG section meeting, Wichita, Kansas

1990

90-11: Reefs, Banks and Bioherms: A Genetic and Semantic Continuum, by Lee G. Gerhard and Randolph Burke

1988

88-22: Texaco Poersch #1, Washington County, Kansas--Preliminary geologic report of the pre-Phanerozoic rocks, by Pieter Berendsen, Roger M. Borcherding, John Doveton, Lee Gerhard, K. David Newell, Don Steeples, and W. Lynn Watney
88-8 (Acrobat PDF, 11.6 MB): Net shale map of Simpson Shale, by M.E. Wilson and Pieter Berendsen
88-7 (Acrobat PDF, 14.1 MB): Isopach map of Maquoketa Shale, by M.E. Wilson and Pieter Berendsen
88-6 (Acrobat PDF, 15.8 MB): Isopach map of Chattanooga Shale, by M.E. Wilson and Pieter Berendsen
88-5 (Acrobat PDF, 8.5 MB): Net shale map of Northview Shale, by M.E. Wilson and Pieter Berendsen