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Assessment of continuous (unconventional) oil and gas resources in the Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale of the Piceance Basin, Uinta-Piceance Province, Colorado and Utah, 2016

Fact Sheet 2016-3030
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https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20163030

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Abstract

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed a geology-based assessment of the continuous (unconventional) oil and gas resources in the Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale within the Piceance Basin of the Uinta-Piceance Province (fig. 1). The previous USGS assessment of the Mancos Shale in the Piceance Basin was completed in 2003 as part of a comprehensive assessment of the greater UintaPiceance Province (U.S. Geological Survey Uinta-Piceance Assessment Team, 2003). Since the last assessment, more than 2,000 wells have been drilled and completed in one or more intervals within the Mancos Shale of the Piceance Basin (IHS Energy Group, 2015). In addition, the USGS Energy Resources Program drilled a research core in the southern Piceance Basin that provided significant new geologic and geochemical data that were used to refine the 2003 assessment of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas in the Mancos Shale.

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Hawkins, S.J., Charpentier, R.R., Schenk, C.J., Leathers-Miller, H.M., Klett, T.R., Brownfield, M.E., Finn, T.M., Gaswirth, S.B., Marra, K.R., Le, P.A., Mercier, T.J., Pitman, J.K., and Tennyson, M.E., 2016, Assessment of continuous (unconventional) oil and gas resources in the Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale of the Piceance Basin, Uinta-Piceance Province, Colorado and Utah, 2016: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2016-3030, 4 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/fs20163030.

ISSN: 2327-6932 (online)

ISSN: 2327-6916 (print)

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Geologic Summary of the Mancos Shale in the Piceance Basin
  • Geologic Model for Assessment
  • Assessment Units
  • Resource Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Assessment of continuous (unconventional) oil and gas resources in the Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale of the Piceance Basin, Uinta-Piceance Province, Colorado and Utah, 2016
Series title Fact Sheet
Series number 2016-3030
DOI 10.3133/fs20163030
Year Published 2016
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Central Energy Resources Science Center
Description 4 p.
Country United States
State Colorado, Utah
Online Only (Y/N) N
Additional Online Files (Y/N) N
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