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The Niobrara Petroleum System, a Major Tight Resource Play in the Rocky Mountain Region - An AAPG E-Symposium
(post-event materials available - asynchronous recording of original presentation)
- INSTRUCTOR:
- Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
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Recording of original webinar, packet of independent study reading materials, PDF of original PowerPoint presentation by FTP download. (Original presentation date: April 28, 2011.) Some materials will also sent by e-mail. Expanded package for CEU credit is $100 for AAPG members, and $145 for non-members. Special Student Pricing: $25 for Webinar only; $35 for Expanded package. - LIMIT:
- 200 people
- CONTENT:
- 1.0 What is a CEU?
Who Should Attend
Geologists, geophysicists, engineers, and support technicians who are interested in the Niobrara Petroleum system.
This e-symposium will look at: The Niobrara Petroleum System
Objectives and Content:
The Niobrara Petroleum System of the U.S. Rocky Mountain Region is a major tight petroleum resource play. The Niobrara is self-sourced and reservoirs are low permeability chalks, shales, and sandstones. Source beds have total organic carbon contents that range from 2 to 8 weight percent. Source beds are thermally mature in the deeper parts of many of the Laramide basins in the Rocky Mountain region. Continuous or pervasive accumulations occur in thermally mature areas.
The Niobrara source rocks are dominantly Type II (sapropelic). Oil accumulations occur where source beds are still in the thermogenic oil window (e.g., Denver Basin). Thermogenic gas accumulations occur where the source beds have entered the gas generating window in deeper parts of basins (e.g., Piceance Basin). Biogenic methane occurs in shallow chalk reservoirs on the east flank of the Western Interior Cretaceous Basin. In addition shallow gas fields are found in northern Montana.
Natural fractures are important in controlling sweet spots in the play and form for several causes. Several models create fractures in the Niobrara and include Laramide tectonics, Neogene extensional tectonics, solution of evaporates, hydrocarbon generation, and regional stress patterns.
The Niobrara is a technology reservoir that requires horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing. The Niobrara petroleum system is present over most of the Rocky Mountain Region and is prospective in many areas.
Structure of the E-Symposium
Each e-symposium consists of one-hour live e-symposium, along with material for one full day of independent study. The live portion will be followed by a full day of independent study (not a live event). The one-hour live e-symposium can be accessed from any computer anywhere in the world using a high-speed internet connection. After the event is over, you will receive via email information about accessing the asynchronous segment (not live) which consists of your independent study materials, to be accessed and studied at any time. You will be able to email responses to the readings, along with your study question answers for CEU credit (if you sign up for the extended package).