Hugoton Consortia
Even with its long history of substantial production, there is no publicly available field-wide study of the fundamental geologic character of producing rocks, or a model of the storage and flow characteristics of the producing intervals in the Hugoton Gas Area. The Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) along with the KU Energy Research Center have organized a consortium of producers, royalty owners, and other interested groups to undertake a comprehensive study of the oil and gas resources of the Hugoton area. The initiative is designed to provide the knowledge and technical base required for intelligent stewardship, generation of new opportunities, and continued improvement in recovery strategies.
The initiative can be divided into four broad technical components:
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Integrated Digital Data System--An integrated digital data environment that collects,
catalogs, and archives data, and provides on-line access to researchers, regulators,
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Structural and Stratigraphic Framework--The immense size of the Hugoton Embayment's productive area at 12,000 square miles and over 11,000 producing gas and oil wells makes a basin-wide synthesis complex. A basin-wide stratigraphic framework has been constructed comprising over 560,000 integrated tops from over 10,000 wells. These data are available to consortia members on-line.
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Develop an Understanding of the Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Hugoton Embayment
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Develop an Understanding of the Hydrodynamic Evolution of the Hugoton
Embayment
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Last updated June 2004
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/PRS/publication/2001-33/P1-04.html