| Abstract: | The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently completed a comprehensive assessment of in-place oil in oil shales in the Eocene Green River in the Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. This CD-ROM includes reports, data, and an ArcGIS project describing the assessment. A database was compiled that includes about 47,000 Fischer assays from 186 core holes and 240 rotary drill holes. Most of the oil yield data were analyzed by the former U.S. Bureau of Mines oil shale laboratory in Laramie, Wyoming, and some analyses were made by private laboratories. Location data for 971 Wyoming oil-shale drill holes are listed in a spreadsheet and included in the CD-ROM. Total in-place resources for the three assessed units in the Green River Formation are: (1) Tipton Shale Member, 362,816 million barrels of oil (MMBO), (2) Wilkins Peak Member, 704,991 MMBO, and (3) LaClede Bed of the Laney Member, 377,184 MMBO, for a total of 1.44 trillion barrels of oil in place. This compares with estimated in-place resources for the Piceance Basin of Colorado of 1.53 trillion barrels and estimated in-place resources for the Uinta Basin of Utah and Colorado of 1.32 trillion barrels. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 70005166 |
| Citation Author: | U.S. Geological Survey Oil Shale Assessment Team |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Central Energy Resources Science Center |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Data Series |
| Citation Series Code: | DS |
| Citation Series Number: | 69-DD |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Oil shale resources in the Eocene Green River Formation, Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah; 2011; DS; 69-DD; U.S. Geological Survey Oil Shale Assessment Team |
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| Citation Year: | 2011 |
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| Text: | Oil shale resources in the Eocene Green River Formation, Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah; 2011; DS; 69-DD; U.S. Geological Survey Oil Shale Assessment Team |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/ds_69_DD.png |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-dd/ |
| Date Other: | Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00 -0500 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
