Shale Shaker Vol 72, No 2 March-April 2021

Shale Shaker Vol 72, No 2 March-April 2021

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THE JOURNAL OF THE OKLAHOMA CITY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

VOLUME 72

Number 2

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100 th 1921 - 2021

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The Journal of the Oklahoma City Geological Society Volume 72 Number 2

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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Celebrating 100 Years!; Patrick Kamann, President, OCGS Board of Directors

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What You Missed - OCGS Spring Clay Shoot 2021

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Happy 100th Birthday OCGS; Co-Editor Mike Kumbalek

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What You Missed - AAPG Mid-Con Imperial Barrel Award Participants

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OCGS Membership/New Members

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Well Log Prediction Using Machine Learning; Sundeep Sharma, Devon Energy Past OCGS - The Shale Shaker: The Reflection Seismograph Celebrates 50th Anniversary 1921-1971; W. B. Robinson

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OCGS Up-Coming Events

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Announcement - Technical Meeting, Dr. Stephen M. Hubbard

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Announcement - Technical Meeting, Jeff A. May, PhD Announcement - Continuing Education, Dr. Yucel Akkutlu

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State of the Industry; Mike Kumbalek

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Advertisers Index

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FRONT COVER: The front cover is from the 50th anniversary of the OCGS edition cover (Vol. 21 No 10.)

BACK COVER: The photo is the Empire Field, Southwest of Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma, Circa 1921.

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C R A W L E Y P E T R O L E U M

Turning Prospects into Production

105 N. Hudson, Suite 800 Oklahoma City, OK 73102 (405) 232-9700

Allen Peacock [email protected]

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Letter from the OCGS President

By: Patrick Kamann, President, OCGS Board of Directors

Then on April 1, 1921 the Oklahoma City Geological Society was formally or- ganized. Dr. Irvine Perrine was the first President of the Society and Harve Loo- mis was the first Secretary/Treasurer. The charter members of the Oklahoma Geo- logical Society included the members above along with:

Through his work he discovered that some of the fields in these counties were producing from Pre-Pennsylvanian strata including the Ordovician. Fritz Aurin started a new position as an assistant to the chief geologist at Marland Oil Company. Mr. Marland and the chief geologist, F. Park Geyer, were interested in finding deeper fields in the Northern Mid-Continent after drilling an excellent producer below the Mississippian Lime in the South Ponca Field. In 1920, Fritz Aurin, Glenn Clark, Earl A. Trager and the Marland geological department worked to collect well cuttings from Northern Okla- homa and Southern Kansas. They spent time and effort educating drillers and drill - ing contractors on the value of saving well cuttings. They worked nights, holidays, and Sundays creating maps of the subsur- face using the well cuttings and drillers logs. Mr. Marland realized the impor- tance of the study and decided to release the study information to the public. The Society continued to meet for lun- cheons until 1923 when they became inac- tive. After the discovery of the Oklahoma City Oil Field on Dec. 4, 1928, a group of local geologists again organized the soci- ety. Some additional notable dates of the society include: In April of 1931 the soci- ety affiliated with the American Associa - tion of Petroleum Geologist (The fourth such society to affiliate with the AAPG.); In March 1934, Harold S. Thomas began editing a bi-monthly publication called “News of Oklahoma City Geological So- ciety” (This small printed publication was the predecessor to the Shale Shaker); In June of 1934, the Society started an an- nual field trip, with their first trip down to Sulphur. I find a few items about the founding of the Oklahoma City Geological Society fasci- nating. First, and foremost, I am proud to be a part of an organization that has been focused on growing the study of the sub- surface and facilitating the networking of

George Burress George Burton Frank Buttram Wm. Buttram R. C. Copeland

C. Z Logan W. L. Miller Cal Moore Frank Parsons Artie C. Reeds C. H. Taylor

Patrick Kamann

C. H. Eaton S. G. Garrett

Celebrating 100 Years! On April 1 st , the Oklahoma City Geologi- cal Society celebrates their 100 th year an- niversary! In the 1920s, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists was encouraging local groups of geologists to form. These groups were charged to move forward the study of the subsurface and grow the petroleum geology profession. On January 17 th , 1921, Dr. Irving Perrine called a meeting of local geologists to his home to discuss forming a society. The individuals reported to have been at that meeting were:

On March 16 th , prior to the formal orga- nization of the Society, a luncheon with a technical talk was arranged. At the first OCGS luncheon, George Burton gave a talk on the, “Relation of the Base of the Red Beds to the Oil Pools of Southern Oklahoma”. At the time independent op- erators believed they would find oil where the Red Beds were thin. Burton made a map showing the relation of the thin Red Beds and oil fields using cable tool drillers logs. These logs generated by cable tool drillers were noted by Burton to be very good logs with the cable tool drillers being “experts in formation interpretation”.

I. J. Broman Virgil Brown

Jerry B. Newby D. W. Ohern Joseph M. Perkins Irving Perrine

Claude S. Dally Chas. N. Gould C. T. Griswold M. G. Hoffman W. C. Kite Harve Loomis The second luncheon talk was held onMay 6 th of 1921. Fritz Aurin and Glenn Clark of Marland Oil Company gave a talk on their study completed with Earl A. Trager. The title of their talk was, “Notes on the subsurface Pre-Pennsylvanian Stratigra- phy of the North Mid-Continent Fields”. While at Empire Gas and Fuel Company, Fritz Aurin performed correlations on the Pennsylvanian and Pre-Pennsylvanian stratigraphy in Eastern Oklahoma, Ok- mulgee, Muskogee, and Creek Counties. The summary of the history of the society came from: Newby, J. (1951). Founding of the Oklahoma City Geological Society. Shale Shaker, Vol. 1, No. 7, 5-11. Dean Stacy L. E. Trout H. E. Williams Sam Woods

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geoscientists for 100 years. I believe this is truly an amazing achievement. Second, I am struck by how far the science and technology of our industry has come. A hundred years ago, geologists were dis- covering how to find oil by mapping the subsurface from well cuttings and drill-

ers logs. Today, we utilize some of those same techniques along with technology such as 3D seismic and seismic inversion, machine learning to generate synthetic logs, and multi-variate analysis. (Please see Mike Kumbalek’s letter from the Edi- tor and the article from Sundeep Sharma

in this issue for more detail.) We work in and amazing industry that is always using new technology to improve our under- standing of the subsurface. I am proud to be an Oklahoma City geologist. Patrick

Charter Members of the Oklahoma City Geological Society – From Left to Right: Dr. Dan Ohern, Dr. Irving Perrine, Mr. George Burress, Mr. Virgil Brown, Mr. Willard L. Miller, and Mr. Jerry Newby

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

fare but also increased the global demand for oil. For example, by the end of WWI, the British Army included 56,000 trucks, 23,000 motorcars, 34,000 motorcycles, and 55,000 planes (Black, 2017). During this period the US produced 60-70% of the world's oil and became a crucial ally when it joined the Allied powers in 1917 (Black, 2017). Coupled with the rise of the automobile for the individual, the global need for oil was growing rapidly. Enter the OCGS in 1921, when a group of geologists who were keen to keep explor- ing for new oil fields was formed. Dur - ing 1921,approximately 4,500 wells were drilled in Oklahoma. To date, those 4,500 wells have produced 15 million barrels of oil and 5.37 bcf of gas cumulatively. Since then, 455,883 wells have been drilled or permitted in Oklahoma, yielding 3.18 billion barrels of oil, and 56 tcf of gas cumulatively. The world needed oil and Oklahoma answered the call. The 1920’s proved to be a huge boom for Oklahoma, with the notable discoveries of the Bur- bank and Greater Seminole fields. These discoveries were aided with massive leaps made in the technology for prospecting and drilling. The first tests of the reflec - tion seismograph were conducted near Belle Isle in 1921 (the vintage technical article from 1971 dives into more detail about this test). The introduction of rotary drilling to Oklahoma occurred in 1924. Ultimately, in 1927 Oklahoma’s oil pro- duction peaked at 762,000 barrels per day. The following year the Oklahoma City oil field was discovered which made Okla - homa the nation's largest oil producer. As a result of this and major discoveries in Texas and abroad, the Oklahoma Corpora- tion commission issued the first statewide proration order to reduce production and elevate oil prices in 1928. 1929 brought the discovery of the Wilburton Gas Field in Pushmataha County. The field reached peak production of 400 mcf per day in 1990 and has produced over 2 tcf. In 1930 the now famous “Wild Mary Sudik” of

the Oklahoma City oil field blew out. The well flowed an estimated 20,000 barrels per day, and due to strong winds, oil blew as far as Norman, 11 miles south. In 1931 the first water flood was executed in Rog - ers County. Although by 1931 the price of oil had dropped by 66% of its value, prompting Governor “Alfalfa Bill” Mur- ray to use the Oklahoma National Guard to shut down all oil production to raise prices to $1 per barrel in 1927. By 1935 Oklahoma passed the first well-spacing law to regulate spacing unit size (Boyd, 2006). These feats were all accomplished in just two decades and for brevity I’ve limited my overview of Oklahoma petro- leum history to just two decades. In the coming issues I’ll continue to note key events of our industry in Oklahoma over the past 100 years keeping with the OCGS centennial celebration. In closing, Figure 1 shows Oklahoma’s oil fields circa 1920 and Figure 2 shows oil fields through 2016. The staggering amount of successful exploration in Okla- homa over the past 100 years is a testa- ment to the drive and determination of the people working in our industry. Along the lines of continued exploration and innova- tion, this issue has two technical articles. The first, “The Reflection Seismograph Celebrates 50th Anniversary 1921-1971” by W.B. Robinson is a discussion of the very first reflection seismograph, which was done in Oklahoma. The second, “Well Log Prediction using Machine Learning” by Sundeep Sharma, discusses the meth- odology for using machine learning to create DT curves from a basic log suite in order to help geophysicists have more >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40

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