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National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project

Total Petroleum Systems and Geologic Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the San Juan Basin Province, Exclusive of Paleozoic Rocks, New Mexico and Colorado

By U.S. Geological Survey San Juan Basin Assessment Team

Contents

• Chapter 1 (1.33 MB)
  Executive Summary—2002 Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the San Juan Basin Province, Exclusive of Paleozoic Rocks, New Mexico and Colorado
  By U.S. Geological Survey San Juan Basin Assessment Team

• Chapter 2 (2.09 MB)
  Introduction to the 2002 Geologic Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the San Juan Basin Province, Exclusive of Paleozoic Rocks
  By U.S. Geological Survey San Juan Basin Assessment Team

• Chapter 3 (2.99 MB)
  Geology and Oil and Gas Assessment of the Todilto Total Petroleum System, San Juan Basin Province, New Mexico and Colorado
  By J.L. Ridgley and J.R Hatch

• Chapter 4 (45 MB)
  Geology and Oil and Gas Assessment of the Mancos-Menefee Composite Total Petroleum System
  By J.L. Ridgley, S.M. Condon, and J.R. Hatch

• Chapter 5 (3.86 MB)
  Geology, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Oil and Gas Assessment of the Lewis Shale Total Petroleum System, San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado
  By R.F. Dubiel

• Chapter 6 (11.4 MB)
  Geology and Oil and Gas Assessment of the Fruitland Total Petroleum System, San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado
  By J.L. Ridgley, S.M. Condon, and J.R. Hatch

• Chapter 7 (474 kB)
  Tabular Data and Graphical Images in Support of the U.S. Geological Survey National Oil and Gas Assessment—San Juan Basin Province (5022)
  By T.R. Klett and P.A. Le

GIS/Data/Metadata

• United States Geological Survey, 2003, National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project - San Juan Basin Province (022) Boundary: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9N23D4S.
• United States Geological Survey, 2002, National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project - San Juan Basin Province (022) Tabular Datasets: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13VVZPK.
• United States Geological Survey, 2003, National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project - San Juan Basin Province (022) Total Petroleum Systems: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FJSXFP.
• United States Geological Survey, 2003, National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project - San Juan Basin Province (022) Quarter-Mile Cells: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XCAIWS.
• United States Geological Survey, 2003, National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project - San Juan Basin Province (022) Assessment Units: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P933614B.

Download the entire contents (62.5 MB) Abstract In 2002, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated undiscovered oil and gas resources that have the potential for additions to reserves in the San Juan Basin Province, New Mexico and Colorado. Paleozoic rocks were not appraised. The last oil and gas assessment for the province was in 1995. There are several important differences between the 1995 and 2002 assessments. The area assessed is smaller than that in the 1995 assessment. This assessment of undiscovered hydrocarbon resources in the San Juan Basin Province also used a slightly different approach in the assessment, and hence a number of the plays defined in the 1995 assessment are addressed differently in this report. After 1995, the USGS has applied a total petroleum system (TPS) concept to oil and gas basin assessments. The TPS approach incorporates knowledge of the source rocks, reservoir rocks, migration pathways, and time of generation and expulsion of hydrocarbons; thus the assessments are geologically based. Each TPS is subdivided into one or more assessment units, usually defined by a unique set of reservoir rocks, but which have in common the same source rock. Four TPSs and 14 assessment units were geologically evaluated, and for 13 units, the undiscovered oil and gas resources were quantitatively assessed.

Suggested citation:

U.S. Geological Survey San Juan Basin Assessment Team, 2013, Total petroleum systems and geologic assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the San Juan Basin Province, exclusive of Paleozoic rocks, New Mexico and Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series 69–F, variously paged.