presentation for RMAG 3D Seismic Symposium – Denver CO

Keith R. Johnson, Doug K. Strickland, John P. Vrona (Wolverine Gas and Oil Corporation), Dan Schelling (Structural Geology International LLC), and David A. Wavrek (Petroleum Systems International, Inc.)

In December of 2003, the Wolverine Gas and Oil Corporation-Kings Meadow 17-1 well discovered a significant hydrocarbon column in the Navajo Sandstone. The Kings Meadow 17-1 well is located in Sevier County, Utah (figure 1). The well tested a hanging wall structure with four-way closure along the frontal most thrust of the Central Utah thrust belt. The closest Nugget Sandstone (Navajo equivalent) hydrocarbon production, from structures of similar thrust style, is found 146 miles to the northeast, in Northeastern Utah and Southwestern Wyoming.

The Wolverine Gas and Oil-Kings Meadow 17-1 encountered a 487 foot oil column in highly porous and permeable sandstones of the Navajo Formation. Wolverine has formed a 65,980 acre Federal Unit over the play area and is in the process of developing the field and delineating other structures within the Federal Unit with data from a recently acquired 2004 2D seismic program. To date, three wells have been successfully drilled into the oil pay, with current plans to drill seven more on the producing structure.

The oil in the Wolverine Gas and Oil-Kings Meadow 17-1 well has been molecularly fingerprinted to Carboniferous source rocks. A confirmed robust hydrocarbon source from the Carboniferous provides a mechanism for charging other analog structures in the area and could potentially open up a new onshore hydrocarbon province in the Rockies.

 

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