Date of Award
12-1991
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Geological and Environmental Sciences
First Advisor
Dr. William B. Harrison III
Second Advisor
Dr. Christopher J. Schmidt
Third Advisor
Dr. W. Thomas Straw
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
Enhanced reservoir quality in the Middle Ordovician St. Peter Sandstone is observed in gas bearing zones in wells located on domal structures. Geometry and degree of this enhanced porosity development is the result of the interplay of structural, depositional, and diagenetic controls. An integrated subsurface study of the Woodville/Goodwell field area was performed in order to document controls on hydrocarbon accumulation.
Recurrent structural growth of domal features throughout the Paleozoic is well documented by isopach mapping. Burial and thermal history studies indicate that hydrocarbons were generated in Ordovician aged source rocks during late Devonian to early Mississippian time, and accumulated in Ordovician to Silurian aged paleostructural traps. These paleostructural hydrocarbon accumulations were then modified by a post late Pennsylvanian period of structural growth.
Recommended Citation
Caldwell, Mark S., "Structural, Depositional, and Diagenetic Controls on Reservoir Development: St. Peter Sandstone, Newaygo County, Michigan" (1991). Masters Theses. 938.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/938