Shale Shaker Vol 72, No 3 May-June 2021

Shale Shaker Vol 72, No 3 May-June 2021

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V OLUME 72 N UMBER 3 T HE J OURNAL OF THE O KLAHOMA C ITY G EOLOGICAL S OCIETY ~ May | June 2021 ~

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The Journal of the Oklahoma City Geological Society Volume 72 Number 3

The Shale Shaker The Shale Shaker is published under the oversight of members of the OCGS Publications Committee, who are responsible for all of the editorial and technical content. Publication production assistance provided by: ART DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION AND DESIGN Theresa Andrews, Visual Concepts and Design, Inc. [email protected] OCGS Board Officers Patrick Kamann President & Sponsorship Committee Devon Energy James Van Alstine Vice President & Shale Shaker Committee Co-Chair Independent Drew Dressler Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair Devon Energy Cole Hinds Secretary, Scholarship Committee Independent Rosie Gilbert Finance Committee & Education Committee Continental Resources Raleigh Blumstein Education Committee Co-Chair Independent Chris Wiggers Education Committee Co-Chair Commission of Land Galen Miller Social Function Committee Independent Joe Voyles Social Media Chair & Website Chair Independent Mike Kumbalek Shale Shaker Committee Co-Chair Independent

Steve Ladner Past President Ladner Consulting Garin Wente Membership Committee Chair Epoch Resources Directors Lesley Evans Councilor & Governance Committee Chair Independent

AAPG House of Delegates Michael Bone AAPG Mid-Continent Section Representative John Brett OCGS OFFICES 3409 S. Broadway, Suite 804 Edmond, OK 73013 Phone: (405) 235-3648 | Fax: (405) 235-1766 Website: www.ocgs.org Staff Michelle Hone [email protected]

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The Journal of the Oklahoma City Geological Society Table of Contents

Shale Shaker Features

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Changing Landscape; Patrick Kamann, President, OCGS Board of Directors

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Past OCGS - The Shale Shaker Digest 1, Volume 1-V (1950-1955): Origin and Oil Possibilities of the Anadarko Basin; Robert R. Wheeler

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Notable Discoveries from 1940-1959; Co-Editor Mike Kumbalek

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Announcement - Call for Papers

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OCGS Membership/New Members

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Past OCGS - Well of the Month

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OCGS Up-Coming Events

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Announcement - 2-Day Continuing Education Workshop; Dr. Rick Sarg

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Announcement - Continuing Education; Dr. Rick Sarg Past OCGS - The Shale Shaker Digest 1, Volume 1-V (1950-1955): A Chart of Connate Water Resistivity in Oklahoma and It's Application To Electric Log Interpretation; L. A. Puzin

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State of the Industry; Mike Kumbalek

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Advertisers Index

About the Cover COVER PHOTO: Drilling rig on the Magnolia et al., No 1 Sterba-Ordovician Unit – the deepest hole in Oklahoma when published as the cover of the November 1957 edition. The well stopped at a total depth of 20,426’. See well of the month article detailing this achievement.

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Letter from the OCGS President

By: Patrick Kamann, President, OCGS Board of Directors

To achieve net zero by 2050, the Interna- tional Energy Agency (IEA) is calling for a dramatic reduction in the use of fossil fuels. To achieve this reduction in the use of fos- sil fuels, the IEA believes society will need to adopt new forms of energy as well as change their current habits. These changes include replacing regional flights with high speed rail, eliminating the sale of internal combustion engines by 2035, holding long- haul flights at 2019 levels, and limiting highway speeds to 60 mph. The call for so- ciety to change their behavior occurs at the same time many people in the world don’t have energy security. According to the IEA, there are 2.6 billion people who do not have access to clean cooking options and 785 million people who don’t have electric- ity. Most if not all our modern comforts are provided through using affordable and reliable fossil fuels. As those individuals without clean cooking options or electricity work to achieve energy security, I believe affordable fossil fuels as well as alterna - tive energy will make up their energy mix. Additionally, the US has embraced clean affordable natural gas as a key part of re - ducing CO 2 emissions. Emerging countries such as China are doing the same. There- fore, I anticipate the use of fossil fuels will continue and geoscientist will be needed to find them. The IEA projects 11.4 million oil and gas jobs will be needed in 2030 vs. the 13.2 million jobs today. To help achieve net zero by 2050, the use of carbon capture, utilization, and storage will need to grow dramatically. All major industrial sites which use fossil fuels will need to have access to underground storage. Additionally, interest in geothermal energy is growing as a low carbon energy source. Techniques in wellbore completions and horizontal drilling developed in the oil and gas industry have the potential to make this technology more economic and widespread. In both CCUS and geothermal energy, geo- scientists will be needed. Our experience in identifying and characterizing the reser- voir, modeling fluid movement, monitoring reservoir changes with 4D seismic, as well as drilling and completing horizontal wells will be key to their success.

Finally, one item I believe is commonly overlooked is the use of natural gas in the energy transition. I mentioned above our use of natural gas instead of coal in electri- cal generation to lower CO 2 emissions. In addition, natural gas can be broken apart or refined into other commodities. Steam methane reforming is a well-established process in the refining and fertilizer indus - try that breaks methane into hydrogen and CO 2 . The steam methane reforming pro- cess is CO 2 intensive and likely to come under scrutiny. However, there are emerg- ing technologies that are looking to break apart methane into hydrogen and pure car- bon that have a low to zero CO 2 footprint. I believe these technologies will take off and quickly replace electrolysis in the produc- tion of hydrogen. Electrolysis uses elec- tricity to break apart water into hydrogen and oxygen. Although the use of alterna- tive energy to break apart water is perhaps the holy grail of zero emissions energy, it is energy intensive to create. According to BloombergNEF, to meet 24% of the world’s energy needs with hydrogen by 2050, we need 31.3 TWh of electricity to produce hydrogen using electrolysis. Today, the en- tire world produces 27.6 TWh of electricity, and so at a minimum we would need to see a twofold increase in electrical generation to meet the worlds energy needs. Due to the intensive energy demand of electroly- sis, I believe over the next 5 to 10 years, we will see a shift toward methane pyrolysis over water electrolysis. Geologists will be needed to continue to explore for and pro- duce natural gas to meet the worlds energy needs. The world’s approach to energy and our profession is certainly changing. However, like Rick, I am excited about the coming future. A future, where I believe geosci- entists, as well as energy companies, will play a key role. Now is the time to embrace these changes by continuing to build our network across all industries, continuing to learn and improve our technical skills, and above all be proud to be geoscientists in the energy industry. Patrick

Changing Landscape Patrick Kamann

As we emerge from the COVID-19 Pan- demic, we are seeing the landscape of the energy industry change. Rick Fritz, Presi- dent of the AAPG, highlights this changing landscape in the June issue of the AAPG Explorer magazine. He believes we will see a dynamic change in our profession as we modify our affiliation to energy, en - vironment and emissions. These changes are fueled as companies, big and small, put more focus on emissions. Compa- nies are heavily focused on reducing their greenhouse gas emissions along with their methane and flaring intensity. Addition - ally, some publicly traded companies have announced goals to achieve net zero emis- sions by 2050. As the focus on reducing emissions have grown, so has the conversa- tion around renewables, carbon capture uti- lization and storage (CCUS), geothermal, and hydrogen. What is the future for geoscience jobs in relation to the world’s focus on achieving net zero emissions? I believe geoscientists are poised to play a big part of the changing energy landscape in three main areas: lift- ing the world population out of energy pov- erty, characterizing the subsurface for green energy, and providing the raw materials for hydrogen-based fuels.

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By: Mike Kumbalek, Co-Editor Letter from the Editor

versary of the OCGS. The 1940s-50s saw the second world war come to an end, and even more discoveries made in Oklahoma. In 1950, the price of oil was $28 per bar- rel, which adjusted for inflation would be $315 in 2021. The price of natural gas was 7 cents per mcf, which adjusted for inflation would be equivalent to 79 cents in 2021. During this time period (1940- 1959) there were 15,926 wells spud in Oklahoma. Oil demand from WWII spurred new drilling campaigns in Oklahoma, in 1941 forty-one new fields were discovered in Oklahoma. Overall, the 1940s through the early 50’s represents Oklahoma's second oil boom. (Figure 1) However, in the late 1950’s the surge of new production cou- pled with more companies drilling abroad saw Oklahoma’s oil production and new field discoveries begin to wane. Of the discoveries made during this time period, some of the most notable fields were the West Edmond Field, the Golden Trend, and the Sooner Trend.

The West Edmond oil field was discovered by Ace Gutowsky using so-called “doo- dlebug” techniques, essentially a modi- fied divining rod. He had trouble finding financing attributed to his lack of geo - logic evidence for his prospects but was ultimately successful in finding a backer. He spudded the No. 1 Wagner on January 2nd, 1943 and had an initial 24 hour flow of 522 barrels of oil out of the Hunton Limestone. By the end of 1943 there were numerous rigs in the area and 11 wells producing. The West Edmond oil field produced 7,752,000 bbls of oil in 1944 which helped raise Oklahoma's lagging production to 1.5 million more barrels than 1943. By December 1945 the field produced 32,000,000 bbls of oil. (Weaver) To date, the field has produced 170 mil - lion bbls oil and 100 BCF of gas, mostly out of the Hunton Limestone (Gaswirth & Higley, 2013) . This along with other discoveries in the area helped to prove up a much larger fairway for the Hunton Limestone in the Anadarko Basin. (Figure 2) In addition to the Hunton Limestone

Mike Kumbalek

Notable Discoveries from 1940-1959 As discussed in the prior issue, my articles will go over the history of the Oklahoma Oil and Gas industry for the last hundred years, in twenty year groupings as a con- tinued celebration of the 100 year anni-

Figure 1 - Oklahoma’s well-completion history (producers and dry holes) (Boyd, 2002)

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production, the West Edmond field plus other discoveries help to make up what is now the STACK (Sooner Trend, Anadar- ko, Canadian, Kingfisher) trend (Figure 3) In 1947 the Golden trend was discovered. The term Golden trend was coined to de- scribe the rig lights at night along the 22 fields in line along the trend. Located in Garvin and McClain counties, the Golden Trend has ultimately been expanded to the SCOOP play. (Figure 3) The early 1950’s saw many discoveries, however the rate of discoveries waned in the later part of the decade, resulting in production declining in Oklahoma. This was partially due to the huge flood of oil to the markets from previous major discover- ies and also many of the larger oil compa-

nies beginning to explore abroad with suc- cess. One of the notable discoveries in the 1950’s was the Sooner trend. Initially dis- covered in 1942 the trend grew through the late 40’s and early 50’s as more fields de - lineating the trend were discovered along the flank of the Anadarko basin. This trend now makes up part of the STACK play. Much like the Golden Trend, the Sooner Trend illustrates discoveries made many years ago that with modern technologies and creative geologic thinking have en- abled it to grow into the STACK play at present day. Rounding things off in the 50’s, OIPA (now merged with OKOGA and named the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma) was founded in 1955 as an ad- vocacy group representing the needs and interests of Oil in Oklahoma.

This issue features two vintage publica- tions from the early days of the Shale Shaker. The first an assessment of the Anadarko basin, the second, a quick look at resistivity logs and formation water re- sistivity, both published in 1951. As pre- viously discussed, the publication about the Anadarko basin was hot off the large amount of discoveries in the 1940s just as new finds started to dwindle. What's most impressive is the large amount of contin- ued production that the Anadarko Basin yields to this date. I challenge you to use this same mentality when working tired or less attractive plays now, as there’s almost certainly a lot of meat left on the bone. We just need to find it. On another note, while I enjoy looking through the archives for old articles, we at the Shale Shaker have

Figure 2 - Map showing the thickness and oil gas production from the Hunton Group. Production beyond the Hunton subcrop inferred to be isolated areas of Hunton that remain in northern Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. AU = assessment unit, TPS = total petroleum system (Modified from Gaswirth & Higley, 2013)

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Notable Discoveries from 1940-1959, cont. Letter from the Editor

been lacking technical article submis- sions. I thank those that continue to sub- mit work to keep new ideas flowing but new authors are encouraged to share their

ideas. This is by geologists for geologists so we need everyone to submit any and all article ideas they’d like to have vetted by the OCGS community. Don't hesitate

to send any ideas or feedback to editor@ ocgs.org, Mike Kumbalek

Figure 3 - Generalized map showing modern horizontal fairways in southern Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma. Note the location of the current fairways with the major discoveries of West Edmond, Golden Trend, and Sooner trend in the 1940’s-50’s (EPUS Global Energy)

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References Boyd, D., 2002, Oklahoma Oil: Past, Present, and Future, accessed June 23, 2021, http://www.ogs.ou.edu/fossilfuels/ pdf/OKOilNotesPDF.pdf

Bobby D. Weaver, “West Edmond Field,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, https://www. okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry. php?entry=WE013.

EPUS Global Energy, What is the Stack/ Scoop, accessed June 30 2021, https:// epusenergy.com/what-is-the-stack-scoop/ Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Debra K. Higley; Petroleum system analysis of the Hunton Group in West Edmond field, Oklahoma. AAPG Bulletin 2013;; 97 (7): 1163–1179. doi: https://doi. org/10.1306/12031212075

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OCGS Membership & New Members

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