South Eubank Field: Successful Development of Deeper Reserves Using 3-D Seismic

MORRISON, ERNIE, Kansas Geological Survey, Wichita, Kansas

A portion of recent field development efforts in the Hugoton Embayment of western Kansas have focused on deeper Mississippian-age sandstone reservoirs of the Chester series. Such efforts yielded particular successes in the case of the South Eubank field, Haskell County Kansas. Subsurface mapping and 3-D seismic information led to over 30 new producers being drilled in this field. Reservoirs are best developed in fine-grained, well-sorted Chester sandstones filling a narrow incised paleo-valley system that runs northsouth through the field. 3-D seismic data was required to accurately delineate the paleo-valley system and locate specific drill sites. Success at South Eubank suggests that other portions of the same valley system might be similarly developed.


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