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Petroleum Systems and Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas in the Anadarko Basin Province, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas—USGS Province 58

National and Global Assessment Anadarko Basin Province Assessment

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Contents

• Chapter 1 (607 kB)
  Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Anadarko Basin Province of Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, and Colorado, 2010
  By Debra K. Higley, Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Marvin M. Abbott, Ronald R. Charpentier, Troy A. Cook, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Nicholas J. Gianoutsos, Joseph R. Hatch, Timothy R. Klett, Philip H. Nelson, Mark J. Pawlewicz, Ofori N. Pearson, Richard M. Pollastro, and Christopher J. Schenk

• Chapter 2 (734 kB)
  Petroleum Systems and Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas in the Anadarko Basin Province, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas—USGS Province 58
  Compiled by Debra K. Higley

• Chapter 3 (24.2 MB)
  Thermal Maturation of Petroleum Source Rocks in the Anadarko Basin Province, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas
  By Debra K. Higley

• Chapter 4 (1.34 MB)
  Geochemistry of Natural Gases of the Anadarko Basin
  By Geoffrey S. Ellis

• Chapter 5 (8.78 MB)
  Geologic Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the Cambrian- Devonian Stratigraphy of the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, and Colorado
  By Stephanie B. Gaswirth and Debra K. Higley

• Chapter 6 (8.66 MB)
  Petroleum Systems and Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas in the Anadarko Basin Province, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas—Woodford Shale Assessment Units
  By Debra K. Higley, Troy A. Cook, and Mark J. Pawlewicz

• Chapter 7 (45.4 MB)
  Petroleum Systems and Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas in the Anadarko Basin Province, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas—Mississippian Through Permian Assessment Units
  By Debra K. Higley

• Chapter 8 (3.91 MB)
  Present-Day Overpressure and Paleopressure Indicators in the Greater Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado
  By Philip H. Nelson and Nicholas J. Gianoutsos

• Chapter 9 (2.55 MB)
  Potentiometric Surfaces for Seven Stratigraphic Units and an Explanation for Underpressure in the Greater Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado
  By Philip H. Nelson and Nicholas J. Gianoutsos

• Chapter 10 (754 kB)
  Lithology of Paleozoic Rock Units in 62 Wells, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma
  By Nicholas J. Gianoutsos, Jaquidon D. Kruger, Philip H. Nelson, and
  Debra K. Higley

• Chapter 11 (13.9 MB)
  Tectonic and Structural Evolution of the Anadarko Basin and Structural Interpretation and Modeling of a Composite Regional 2D Seismic Line
  By Ofori N. Pearson and John J. Miller

• Chapter 12 (374 kB)
  Tabular Data and Graphical Images in Support of the U.S. Geological Survey National Oil and Gas Assessment—Anadarko Basin Province (5058)
  Spatial Data
  By T.R. Klett and P.A. Le

• Chapter 13 (1.90 MB)
  Precambrian to Ground Surface Grid Cell Maps and 3D Model of the Anadarko Basin Province
  3D Geologic Model
  ZmapFormatGridFiles
  By Debra K. Higley, Nicholas J. Gianoutsos, Michael P. Pantea, and Sean M. Strickland

• Report PDF (107 MB)
  Petroleum Systems and Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas in the Anadarko Basin Province, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas—USGS Province 58
  Compiled by Debra K. Higley

GIS/Data/Metadata

• National and Global Assessment Website

This publication provides research results and related data in support of the U.S. Geological Survey assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas resource potential of the Anadarko Basin Province of western Oklahoma and Kansas, northern Texas, and southeastern Colorado. This province area includes the Las Animas arch of southeastern Colorado, part of the Palo Duro Basin of Texas, and the Anadarko Basin. Results of the geologic analysis and resource assessment are based on the geologic elements of each defined total petroleum system, including hydrocarbon source rocks (source-rock maturation, hydrocarbon generation and migration), reservoir rocks (sequence stratigraphic and petrophysical properties), hydrocarbon traps (trapping mechanisms and timing), and seals. Using this geologic framework, the U.S. Geological Survey defined 2 total petroleum systems, the Woodford Composite total petroleum system and Pennsylvanian Composite total petroleum system and 12 included assessment units, and quantitatively estimated the undiscovered oil and gas resources within these conventional and continuous (unconventional) AUs. The 13 chapters included in U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS–69–EE cover topics that range from the oil and gas resource assessment results (chapter 1 and 5–7), to geological, geochemical, and geophysical research across the province (chapters 3–11), tabular data and graphs in support of the assessment (chapter 12), and data releases of zmap-format grid files that were used to build petroleum system models and a standalone three-dimensional geologic model (chapter 13).

Higley, D.K., compiler, 2014, Petroleum systems and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Anadarko Basin Province, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas—USGS Province 58: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS–69–EE, 327 p., 8 pls., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds69EE.

ISSN 2327-638X (online)