Publication Year
2012
Series
Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies
Publication Year
2012
Series
Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies
Publication Year
2012
Series
Annual Reports
Abstract
Annual report for the Bureau of Economic Geology 2012
Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Series
Open-File Map
Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Series
Report of Investigations
Abstract
The Wolfberry play in West Texas combines favorable geology with innovative completion practices to form one of the largest unconventional oil plays in the United States. Wolfberry wells produced almost 55 million barrels of oil in 2011, and that figure could double in a few years. In this report, the authors used wireline logs to correlate and map stratigraphic intervals and drill cores to characterize lithofacies and calibrate wireline logs for lithofacies identification and mapping beyond cored wells.