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Contents
General
Location
Area
Reservoirs
Literature, Gorham oil field
Discovery
Oil production
Sources of information
History
Environmental impact
General
Cross section A-B-C
Map series
Structure
Granite
Quartzite
Schist
Buried Precambrian hills
Structural control
Cambrian Reagan Sandstone and Cambro-Ordovician Arbuckle Group
Thickness
Acid insoluble residues
Correlation
Lithology
Bedrock areal geology
Surficial rocks
"Gorham sand" in the Gorham oil field
Granite hill
Quartzite hills
Arbuckle karst plain
Time of formation of the karst plain
Scalped karst plain
Common oil reservoir
Long-distance migration of Arbuckle oil
Trapping and accumulation of Arbuckle oil
Map, Lansing-Kansas City structure
Oil fields, Lansing-Kansas City
Oil reservoirs
Lithology
Well-completion procedures
Acidization
Accidental waterflooding, 1940's
Waterflooding, 1960's-1970's
Summary
Oil production from the Pennsylvanian Shawnee Group
Toronto and Plattsmouth oil production
Topeka fracture-zone oil production
Analogy, Topeka fracture zone and Wisconsin fractures
Waterflooding, Shawnee Group, Toronto and Plattsmouth formations
Subsidence areas
Permian Council Grove and Chase Groups
Sumner Group, an aquitard
Hutchinson Salt Member
Stone Corral Formation
Structure, Fence-post limestone
Aquifers; the Dakota and Cheyenne Sandstones
Structural growth of the Gorham anticline
Oil production by years 1926-1986
Cumulative production
Sources of oil-production statistics
General statement
Oil production, Reagan Sandstone
Oil production, Arbuckle dolomite
Oil production, Lansing-Kansas City
Oil production by enhanced-recovery methods, Lansing-Kansas City
Oil production, Shawnee Group-Dread and Plattsmouth
Oil production, Topeka fracture zone
Oil production, shallow formations
Crude oil, well-head prices, 1926-1986
Flush and settled production stages, 1926-1956
Stripper stage of production, 1956-1986
The beginning--Fairport oil field, 1923
Exploration by surface geology
Discovery of the Gorham oil field, 1926
Drilling with standard cable tools
Advantages and disadvantages of cable-tool drilling
Information from cable-tool drilling
Gorham oil field, April 14, 1928
Acidization of Oswald oil wells, 1933-34
"The biggest oil well ever struck in western Kansas," 1935
Oil-field development, 1935-1940
Oil-field fire--geological setting
The World War II years, December 7, 1941-September 14, 1945
Stripper-production stage, 1955-1986
Drilling with rotary tools in the Gorham oil field
Rotary drilling--role of the geologist
Rotary drilling--present practices
Water
Introduction
Freshwater aquifers
Disposal of oil-field brine, 1926-28
Disposal in surface ponds, 1928-1930's
Disposal in shallow SWD wells, 1940's
Corrosion caused by brine disposal in shallow SWD wells
Shallow SWD wells; map and years licensed
Investigation of aquifers affected by shallow SWD wells
Deep-well disposal systems, 1950's Saltwater disposal, 1960's-1980's
Introduction
History
North-south seismic section
Cross section, I-70
Former oil wells; brine conduits or "sewers"
Present shallow fracturing or brecciation
Drilling with rotary tools in highly fractured rocks
Volume of salt dissolved
Highway subsidence--amount, rate, trend, and cost
Future subsidence along I-70
Research drilling and coring in other salt-related subsidence areas in Kansas
Subsidence at a deep saltwater-disposal well
Conclusion-subsidence areas
Impact of the Gorham oil field on agriculture
Summary--environmental impact of the Gorham oil field
Table 1--List of discovery wells
Table 2--Annual oil production, Gorham oil field
Table 3--Oi1 and gas test holes, cross sections A-B and B-C
Table 4--Gorham oil field production, by formations
Table 5--Well-head price Kansas crude oil
Table 7--Subsidence in feet per year at Witt, Crawford, and Roubach sinks
Table 8--Petroleum production statistics for the state of Kansas
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Kansas Geological Survey, Geology
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