1. NEW REGIONAL RESERVOIR PLAY CHARACTERIZATION PROGRAMS
IN TEXAS & NEW MEXICO
at the Bureau of Economic Geology
GEOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS OF THE PALEOZOIC OF THE PERMIAN BASIN (PBGSP)
CARBONIFEROUS GAS SHALE RESOURCES IN TEXAS (CGSR)
Principal Investigators: Stephen C. Ruppel & Robert G. Loucks

2. GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE
Permian Basin study area
Barnett shale study area

3. PROGRAM GOALS
Produce a detailed, comprehensive history of Paleozoic depositional and reservoir systems in the Permian Basin
Create spatially integrated data bases of depositional, stratigraphic, lithologic, and petrophysical properties

4. TARGET RESOURCES
Development Target: : 23 billion barrels of mobile oil remaining in existing reservoirs
Exploration Target: 3.5 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and NGL resources

5. VALUE
Provide fundamental stratigraphic and reservoir-specific data in a readily accessible and useable format.
Integrated data will decrease the risk and increase the efficiency of exploitation
Integrated data will define new opportunities for drilling.
Integrated data will form the basis for new engineering approaches and completion practices

6. SOURCE DATA Reservoir studies Cores Wireline logs 3D & 2D seismic
Outcrop studies
Published reports
Company data
NEW STUDIES

7. DELIVERABLES
Text: Written synthesis of history, stratigraphy, facies, structural history, and reservoir development in Permian Basin.
Data: ARC/INFO GIS-based regional structure maps, facies maps, cross sections, core descriptions and data, outcrop descriptions and sections, core data, reservoir data, production data, publications, etc for each play.

8. TEXT
First-year report on depositional history and stratigraphy of the Cambrian-Permian
Incremental play reports as completed.

9. DELIVERABLE DATA PBGSP Barnett/Woodford
Regional structure and facies maps
Regional cross sections
Core descriptions and data
Core photographs
Reservoir cross sections
Reservoir models
Outcrop models
Depositional facies models
Seismic models
Production data
Publications
Geothermal gradient maps
Organic geochemistry data
Fracture data
Biostratigraphic data
Production data
Rock mechanics data

10. REGIONAL STRUCTURE MAPS
Woodford Structure

11. FACIES MAPS

12. REGIONAL CROSS-SECTIONS
Sequence stratigraphic framework
systems tracts
bounding surfaces/unconformities
Unit correlations
Facies correlations
Unit correlations
Facies correlations
Payzone continuity
Wireline attributes

13. OUTCROP MODELS

14. DEPOSITIONAL MODELS

15. RESERVOIR MODELS

16. CORE DESCRIPTIONS

17. CORE PHOTOGRAPHS Ooid/skeletal Lime Grainstone Separate Vug Porosity
Porosity: 23.1 %; Permeability: 17 md

18. CORE ANALYSIS DATA

19. RESERVOIR CROSS-SECTIONS
Cycle stratigraphic framework
Facies stacking patterns
Reservoir architecture
Payzone continuity
Wireline attributes

20. SEISMIC SECTIONS NW SE Glorieta platform margin Yates
500 ms
Yates
Grayburg reservoir
Queen
Grayburg
Lowstand wedge
Glorieta
platform
margin
U San Andres M
1000 ms L
Clear Fork
1 mile

21. PRODUCTION DATA

22. PUBLICATIONS

23. DATA DELIVERY FORMATS Written summary reports on each play
Digital & paper delivery
Digital data (GIS ARC-View)
CD format
Online web-based (ARC-IMS)

24. FUNDING DOE: $800k Industry Sponsors
Bureau of Economic Geology Leveraging
RCRL
STARR
Current Funding Level: ~ $400k /year

25. BENEFITS OF SPONSORSHIP
Exclusive priority access to data products and deliverables for minimum of 1 year.
Access to data digitally as it becomes available.
Input as to focus and deliverables of project.
Direct access to project staff.
Attendance at annual project meetings.

26. PROJECT START DATE AND TERM
Start: January 1, 2005
Initial term: 3 years
Continuation based on funding availability.

27. COST OF SPONSORSHIP Basic Sponsorship: $19,000 (annual)
Two-year Sponsorship: $37,000
Three-year Sponsorship: $54,000

28. PROJECT STAFF BEG Full-time Staff: Steve Ruppel (PI)
Bob Loucks (PI, STARR)
Sedimentologists - Stratigraphers - 8
Petrophysicist
Structural Geologist
Reservoir engineers - 2
UT Students
Collaborating Staff (non-BEG)
Biostratigrapher
Organic Geochemist

29. PROJECT CONTACTS Steve Ruppel 512-471-2965
Bob Loucks