David W. Houseknecht
David Houseknecht is a Senior Research Geologist for the USGS Geology, Energy & Minerals (GEM) Science Center in Reston, VA.
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 area, petroleum assessment, 1998, including economic analysis
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (1980) established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). In section 1002 of that act, Congress deferred a decision regarding future management of the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain ("1002 area") in recognition of the area’s potentially enormous oil and gas resources and its importance as wildlife habitat. A report on the resources...
Authors
K. J. Bird, D.W. Houseknecht
Stratigraphy and lithofacies of Lisburne Group carbonate rocks (Carboniferous - Permian) in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska
Carbonate rocks of the Lisburne Group (Carboniferous-Permian) occur widely throughout northern Alaska. In the NPRA, seismic mapping and well penetrations show that the Lisburne occurs throughout the subsurface except in northernmost NPRA where it is missing by depositional onlap. Lisburne strata encountered in 11 exploratory wells in the northern part of the NPRA are essentially...
Authors
Julie A. Dumoulin, Kenneth J. Bird
Lithologies of the basement complex (Devonian and older) in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska
Rocks of the basement complex (Devonian and older) were encountered in at least 30 exploratory wells in the northern part of the NPRA. Fine-grained, variably deformed sedimentary rocks deposited in a slope or basinal setting predominate and include varicolored (mainly red and green) argillite in the Simpson area, dark argillite and chert near Barrow, and widespread gray argillite...
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Julie A. Dumoulin
High-temperature quartz cement and the role of stylolites in a deep gas reservoir, Spiro Sandstone, Arkoma Basin, USA
The Spiro Sandstone, a natural gas play in the central Arkoma Basin and the frontal Ouachita Mountains preserves excellent porosity in chloritic channel-fill sandstones despite thermal maturity levels corresponding to incipient metamorphism. Some wells, however, show variable proportions of a late-stage, non-syntaxial quartz cement, which post-dated thermal cracking of liquid...
Authors
Richard H. Worden, Sadoon Morad, C. Spötl, D.W. Houseknecht, L.R. Riciputi
Apatite fission-track analysis of twelve outcrop samples from the Chandler Lake and Killik River 1:250,000-scale quadrangles, south-central North Slope, Alaska
No abstract available.
Authors
Thomas E. Moore, David W. Houseknecht, Christopher J. Potter
Kerogen maturation and incipient graphitization of hydrocarbon source rocks in the Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma and Arkansas: A combined petrographic and Raman spectrometric study
Dispersed kerogen of the Woodford-Chattanooga and Atoka Formations from the subsurface of the Arkoma Basin show a wide range of thermal maturities (0.38 to 6.1% R(o)) indicating thermal conditions ranging from diagenesis to incipient rock metamorphism. Raman spectral analysis reveals systematic changes of both the first- and second-order spectrum with increasing thermal maturity. These...
Authors
C. Spotl, D.W. Houseknecht, R.C. Jaques
Rotational reflectance of dispersed vitrinite from the Arkoma basin
Rotational reflectance of dispersed vitrinite provides superior documentation of thermal maturity and a capability for interpreting relative timing between thermal and kinematic events in Arkoma Basin strata characterized by vitrinite reflectances up to 5%. Rotational reflectance (R(rot)) is a more precise and less ambiguous index of thermal maturity than maximum (R'(max)), minimum (R...
Authors
D.W. Houseknecht, C.M.B. Weesner
Diagenesis of an 'overmature' gas reservoir: The Spiro sand of the Arkoma Basin, USA
The Spiro sand is a laterally extensive thin sandstone of earliest Atokan (Pennsylvanian) age that forms a major natural gas reservoir in the western Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma. Petrographic analysis reveals a variety of diagenetic alterations, the majority of which occurred during moderate to deep burial. Early diagenetic processes include calcite cementation and the formation of Fe-clay...
Authors
C. Spotl, D.W. Houseknecht, S.J. Burns
Rotational reflectance properties of Arkoma Basin dispersed vitrinite: insights for understanding reflectance populations in high thermal maturity regions
Analysis and interpretation of dispersed vitrinite reflectance data in regions of high thermal maturity (> 2% vitrinite reflectance) have been equivocal partly because of an increase in width and complexity of reflectance histograms with increasing mean reflectance. Such complexity is illustrated by random reflectance (Rran) data from the Arkoma Basin that display a linear increase in...
Authors
D.W. Houseknecht, D.F. Bensley, L.A. Hathon, P.H. Kastens
Laboratory methods
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F.G. Ethridge, W.R. Almon, M.P. Cone, D.G. Kersey, H.A. Ohen, W.A. Nagel, K.A. Byerly, Jim Funk, C.L. Vayra, J.G. Kaldi, R.M. Sneider, J.T. Hawkins, R. W. Scott, D.W. Houseknecht, J.B. Thomas, P.C. Henshaw, R.L. Kaufman, L.W. Slentz, P.A. Dickey, Dare Keelan, J.O. Amaefule
Science and Products
Filter Total Items: 95
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 area, petroleum assessment, 1998, including economic analysis
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (1980) established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). In section 1002 of that act, Congress deferred a decision regarding future management of the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain ("1002 area") in recognition of the area’s potentially enormous oil and gas resources and its importance as wildlife habitat. A report on the resources...
Authors
K. J. Bird, D.W. Houseknecht
Stratigraphy and lithofacies of Lisburne Group carbonate rocks (Carboniferous - Permian) in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska
Carbonate rocks of the Lisburne Group (Carboniferous-Permian) occur widely throughout northern Alaska. In the NPRA, seismic mapping and well penetrations show that the Lisburne occurs throughout the subsurface except in northernmost NPRA where it is missing by depositional onlap. Lisburne strata encountered in 11 exploratory wells in the northern part of the NPRA are essentially...
Authors
Julie A. Dumoulin, Kenneth J. Bird
Lithologies of the basement complex (Devonian and older) in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska
Rocks of the basement complex (Devonian and older) were encountered in at least 30 exploratory wells in the northern part of the NPRA. Fine-grained, variably deformed sedimentary rocks deposited in a slope or basinal setting predominate and include varicolored (mainly red and green) argillite in the Simpson area, dark argillite and chert near Barrow, and widespread gray argillite...
Authors
Julie A. Dumoulin
High-temperature quartz cement and the role of stylolites in a deep gas reservoir, Spiro Sandstone, Arkoma Basin, USA
The Spiro Sandstone, a natural gas play in the central Arkoma Basin and the frontal Ouachita Mountains preserves excellent porosity in chloritic channel-fill sandstones despite thermal maturity levels corresponding to incipient metamorphism. Some wells, however, show variable proportions of a late-stage, non-syntaxial quartz cement, which post-dated thermal cracking of liquid...
Authors
Richard H. Worden, Sadoon Morad, C. Spötl, D.W. Houseknecht, L.R. Riciputi
Apatite fission-track analysis of twelve outcrop samples from the Chandler Lake and Killik River 1:250,000-scale quadrangles, south-central North Slope, Alaska
No abstract available.
Authors
Thomas E. Moore, David W. Houseknecht, Christopher J. Potter
Kerogen maturation and incipient graphitization of hydrocarbon source rocks in the Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma and Arkansas: A combined petrographic and Raman spectrometric study
Dispersed kerogen of the Woodford-Chattanooga and Atoka Formations from the subsurface of the Arkoma Basin show a wide range of thermal maturities (0.38 to 6.1% R(o)) indicating thermal conditions ranging from diagenesis to incipient rock metamorphism. Raman spectral analysis reveals systematic changes of both the first- and second-order spectrum with increasing thermal maturity. These...
Authors
C. Spotl, D.W. Houseknecht, R.C. Jaques
Rotational reflectance of dispersed vitrinite from the Arkoma basin
Rotational reflectance of dispersed vitrinite provides superior documentation of thermal maturity and a capability for interpreting relative timing between thermal and kinematic events in Arkoma Basin strata characterized by vitrinite reflectances up to 5%. Rotational reflectance (R(rot)) is a more precise and less ambiguous index of thermal maturity than maximum (R'(max)), minimum (R...
Authors
D.W. Houseknecht, C.M.B. Weesner
Diagenesis of an 'overmature' gas reservoir: The Spiro sand of the Arkoma Basin, USA
The Spiro sand is a laterally extensive thin sandstone of earliest Atokan (Pennsylvanian) age that forms a major natural gas reservoir in the western Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma. Petrographic analysis reveals a variety of diagenetic alterations, the majority of which occurred during moderate to deep burial. Early diagenetic processes include calcite cementation and the formation of Fe-clay...
Authors
C. Spotl, D.W. Houseknecht, S.J. Burns
Rotational reflectance properties of Arkoma Basin dispersed vitrinite: insights for understanding reflectance populations in high thermal maturity regions
Analysis and interpretation of dispersed vitrinite reflectance data in regions of high thermal maturity (> 2% vitrinite reflectance) have been equivocal partly because of an increase in width and complexity of reflectance histograms with increasing mean reflectance. Such complexity is illustrated by random reflectance (Rran) data from the Arkoma Basin that display a linear increase in...
Authors
D.W. Houseknecht, D.F. Bensley, L.A. Hathon, P.H. Kastens
Laboratory methods
No abstract available
Authors
F.G. Ethridge, W.R. Almon, M.P. Cone, D.G. Kersey, H.A. Ohen, W.A. Nagel, K.A. Byerly, Jim Funk, C.L. Vayra, J.G. Kaldi, R.M. Sneider, J.T. Hawkins, R. W. Scott, D.W. Houseknecht, J.B. Thomas, P.C. Henshaw, R.L. Kaufman, L.W. Slentz, P.A. Dickey, Dare Keelan, J.O. Amaefule