In 1983, the Bureau of Economic Geology published the Atlas of Major Texas Oil Reservoirs, a precedent-setting synthesis of key geological and engineering data on 450 major oil reservoirs grouped into 48 regional plays.

Along the Texas Gulf shoreline and offshore, the distal margin of the Frio Formation is a deep hydrocarbon province that is underexplored relative to the onshore Frio.

In the Rio Grande Embayment of South Texas, the Carrizo Formation (lower Eocene) consists of two sand-rich fluvial depositional systems that grade basinward into several deltaic complexes within the upper part of the Wilcox Group.

Barbers Hill salt dome, located in the Texas Coastal Plain near Houston, has a long history of resource exploitation, including oil and brine production, storage of hydrocarbons in solution-mined caverns within the salt stock, and disposal of brine into the cap rock.

This report summarizes geologic, engineering, and production information on 24 low-permeability, gas-bearing sandstone reservoirs in 13 basins in the United States.

The Tirrawarra Sandstone is the primary producing zone at Tirrawarra field in the Cooper Basin of South Australia, where it contains 146 million barrels (MMbbl) of unrecovered oil.

Canyon sandstones form a prolific low-permeability gas play in the Val Verde Basin of southwest Texas. Exploration and development activity is at a high level, but little published information on Canyon geology is available.

Authors of this report summarize the results of integrated geologic characterization of the Frontier Formation along the Moxa Arch in southwestern Wyoming in four major areas of study: (1) stratigraphic and depositional systems, (2) diagenesis of reservoir sandstones, (3) disttribution of natural

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.

Basinal mudrocks and associated facies assigned to the Wolfcamp and lower Leonard lithostratigraphic units in the Midland Basin are prolific producers of oil and gas.