Tech Information

Reports

• Evaluating Structural Controls and their Role in Forecasting Properties of Phanerozoic Rocks in the Northern Midcontinent, U.S.A. - Ancient Examples and Modern Analogs by W. Lynn Watney, Evan K. Franseen, Alan P. Byrnes, Susan E. Nissen Kansas Geological Survey and Sihuang Xu, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Faculty of Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, PRC

• Core Description of the Forest City, LLC., Hopp 1-16, Doniphan County, Kansas by W. Matthew Brown

• Core Description of the KGS Deffenbaugh Quarry 2, Johnson County, Kansas by W. Matthew Brown

• Fiscal Year 2005 Kansas Oil & Gas Production by Operator by Timothy R. Carr

• Type Log Showing Stratigraphic Horizons for Russell County, Kansas by Benjamin J. Rocke

• Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments and Coalbed Methane Resources of Cherokee Group Coals (Middle Pennsylvanian)--Southeastern Kansas by Jonathan P. Lange Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas

• Extracting Lithofacies from Digital Well Logs Using Artificial Intelligence, Panoma (Council Grove) Field, Hugoton Embayment, Southwest Kansas by Martin K. Dubois, Geoffrey C. Bohling, Alan P. Byrnes, and Shane C. Seals (Pioneer Natural Resoursces USA, Inc.)

• Regional Trends in Coalbed Gas Composition and Thermal Maturation in Eastern Kansas: Implications for Predicting Quality and Location of Coalbed Gas by K. David Newell and L. Michael Magnuson (pdf format)

• An Integrated Application of Neural Network and Markov Chain Techniques to Prediction of Lithofacies from Well Logs by G.C. Bohling and M.K. Dubois (pdf format)

Online Posters

• Fracture and Karst Features Affecting Reservoir Performance in a Mississippian Reservoir, Cheyenne County, Colorado by Natalie B. Givens, University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Susan E. Nissen, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas Open-file Report 2006-14

• Integrated Subsurface Carbon Sequestration and Enhanced Coalbed Natural Gas Recovery Using Cement Kiln Emissions, Wilson County, Kansas by Stephen G. Schurger¹, K. David Newell¹,James G. Blencoe² and Timothy R. Carr¹ Open-file Report 2006-13 ¹Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66044
  ²Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, TN 37831

• Carbonate Lithofacies Prediction Using Neural Network and Geostatistical 3D Modeling of Oolite Shoals, St. Louis Limestone, Southwest Kansas by Qi Lianshuang¹,²,³, Timothy R. Carr¹, and Robert H. Goldstein³ Open-file Report 2006-04 ¹Kansas Geological Survey, ²Chevron Energy Technology Company, San Ramon, CA, ³Department of Geology, University of Kansas

• Low-BTU Gas in the Permian Chase Group in the Ryersee Field in Western Kansas: A Case History where Technology Creates a Marketable Commodity by K. David Newell, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Scott Corsair, American Warrior, Inc., Garden City, Kansas, Steve Chafin and Kent Pennybaker, River City Engineering, Inc., Lawrence, Kansas

• CO2 Miscible Flood Demonstration Project, Russell County, Kansas June 19, 2003 (pdf format)

• Online Tools to Evaluate Saline Aquifers for CO2 Sequestration by Timothy R. Carr, Lawrence H. Wickstrom, Christopher P. Korose, R. Stephen Fisher, Wilfrido Solano-Acosta, and Nathan Eaton

• The Role of Moldic Porosity in Paleozoic Kansas Reservoirs and the Association of Original Depositional Facies and Early Diagenesis With Reservoir Properties by Alan P. Byrnes, Evan K. Franseen, W. Lynn Watney, and Martin K. Dubois. Petroleum Research Section, Kansas Geological Survey The Jules Braunstein Memorial Award for the best AAPG poster at the 2003 Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah

• Statistically-based Lithofacies Predictions for 3-D Reservoir Modeling: An Example from the Panoma (Council Grove) Field, Hugoton Embayment, Southwest Kansas by Martin K. Dubois, Alan P. Byrnes, Geoffrey C. Bohling, Shane C. Seals, and John H. Doveton

• Use of Information Technology for Integrated Reservoir Characterization of Permian Gas Fields of the Hugoton Embayment by Timothy R. Carr, Kenneth M. Dean, Martin K. Dubois, Paul Gerlach, Michael H. Maroney, Ernie Morrison, K. David Newell, Kitt E. Noah, and Harald Poelchau

• Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments and Coalbed Methane Resources of Cherokee Group Coals (Middle Pennsylvanian)--Southeastern Kansas by Jonathan P. Lange, Timothy R. Carr, and K. David Newell

• Reservoir Characterization of Mississippian St. Louis Carbonate Reservoir Systems in Kansas, Stratigraphic and Facies Architecture Modeling by Lianshuang Qi and Timothy R. Carr

• Paleotopography and Sea-Level Controls on Facies and Thickness Variability of Transgressive Limestones: Upper Pennsylvanian Merriam Limestone, Northeast Kansas by Edward L. Washburn and Evan K. Franseen. Kansas Geological Survey

• Characterization of Mississippian Osage Chat in South-Central Kansas by W. Lynn Watney, Willard J. Guy and Alan P. Byrnes

Online Documents from Workshops

September 24, 2003, GEMINI Project Review Workshop (PDF Format)

Introduction | GEMINI Design | Tutorial and Concepts | Data Access via Web and Upload | User Project, Workflow, Output, Well Profile | Rock Catalog | PfEFFER | Cross Section and Synthetic Seismogram | PVT, DST and Production | KHAN | XML

BP Amoco Workshop - July 17, 2001

• GEMINI Geo-Engineering Modeling through INternet Informatics by John Victorine and Lynn Watney, Kansas Geological Survey
• Review and Demonstration of PfEFFER v. 2.0/Pro by Lynn Watney, Kansas Geological Survey

Reservoir Characteristics of Morrow/Incised-Valley Fill Plays Workshop & Morrow Incised-Valley Core Workshop - February 16 - 17, 2000

• Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of Incised Valley Systems by W. Lynn Watney, Kansas Geological Survey
• Oil and Gas Production from IVF Reservoirs in Kansas by Paul Gerlach, Kansas Geological Survey
• The Chester Formation in South Eubanks Field by Ernie Morrison, Kansas Geological Survey
• Routine and Special Core Petrophysical Properties of Kansas IVF Reservoirs by Alan Byrnes, Kansas Geological Survey
• Intrepretive Aspects of Seismic Coherence and Related Multitrace Attributes by Dr. Susan Nissen, Kansas Geological Survey

Integrated Pennsylvanian Stratigraphy, Insights into Processes and Improving Predictions of Petroleum Reservoirs, by W. Lynn Watney, Kansas Geological Survey, April 20, 2000

Presentations

• Geological Overview of the Niobrara Chalk Natural Gas Play by W. Lynn Watney, Kansas Geological Survey, KU Energy Research Center

• CO2 Flooding of the Colliver/Carter Lease of the Hall-Gurney Field: Simulation Study by Rajesh P. Kunjithaya, Alan Byrnes, Don Green and Paul Willhite

• Characterization of the Missisissippian Osage Chat in South-Central Kansas by Alan P. Byrnes,Willard J. Guy, W. Lynn Watney, Kansas Geological Survey

• Cost Effective Techniques for the Independent Producer to Evaluate Horizontal Drilling in Mature Areas by Saibal Bhattachayra and Richard Pancake, May 10, 2001

• Horizontal Drilling in Kansas: Current Status and Case Histories by Tim Carr and Paul Gerlach, May 10, 2001

• Horizontal Drilling in Kansas: A Case Study Revisited Presented at TORP's 14th Oil Recovery Conference Wichita, Kansas March 14-15, 2001 by Mark Shreve

• Update: Field Demonstration of CO2 Miscible Flooding in the L-KC, Central Kansas, by Martin K. Dubois, Kansas Geological Survey, March 01, 2001

• Application of Horizontal Wells in Mature Basins: A Case History from Kansas Presented at Tulsa Geological Society September 5, 2000 by Tim Carr

• Horizontal Drilling in Kansas: A Case History - KIOGA Annual Convention, August 28, 2000

• Horizontal Drilling in Kansas: Current Status and Case Histories by Paul Gerlach, January 12, 2000

• Economics for CO2 EOR in Central Kansas, by Martin K. Dubois, Kansas Geological Survey

• Field Demonstration of CO2 Miscible Flooding in the Lansing-Kansas City Formation, Central Kansas, by Alan P. Byrnes, Kansas Geological Survey

Complete List of Kansas Geological Survey - Energy Research Section Open-file Reports