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Maps summarizing geohydrologic information in an area of salt-water disposal, eastern Altamont-Bluebell petroleum field, Uinta Basin, Utah

Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-4043
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri924043

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Abstract

In the Altamont-Bluebell Petroleum Field within the Uinta Basin of Utah, saline oil-production water is being injected into the Duchesne River Formation. On the basis of geohydrologic information, a qualitative assessment of the possible effects of this injection indicates that fresh groundwater in certain areas of the Duchesne River formation may be more susceptible than water in other areas to becoming mixed with injected oil-production water. The reason for this possible mixing is because these areas containing the susceptible groundwater lack a thick shale layer above the disposal zone, as indicated in geophysical logs. In other areas, naturally occurring moderately saline water exists at shallow depths and may be withdrawn from water wells completed more than 200 ft below land surface. Additional geohydrologic information will need to be collected to allow investigators to make a quantitative determination of the rate of horizontal and vertical migration of injected oil-production water within and above the disposal zone.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Maps summarizing geohydrologic information in an area of salt-water disposal, eastern Altamont-Bluebell petroleum field, Uinta Basin, Utah
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 92-4043
DOI 10.3133/wri924043
Year Published 1994
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description 2 Plates: 21.26 × 25.88 inches and 21.26 × 26.33 inches
Country United States
State Utah
Other Geospatial eastern Altamont-Bluebell petroleum-field, Uinta Basin
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