Print this pageAbstract: Geology of Panoma Gas Area, Southwestern Kansas
The Panoma gas area, in the Hugoton embayment of the Anadarko basin, is the second largest gas field in Kansas, encompassing more than 1,700 sq mi. The discovery well was drilled in late 1959; there are approximately 900 producing gas wells in the field. Production is limited to the limestone and dolostone formations of the Lower Permian Council Grove Group (Wolfcampian).
The field is an east-dipping homocline that flattens toward the east. The entrapping mechanism is a decrease in permeability due to a facies change from limestone and dolostone to a red shale and sandstone sequence, from east to west. The controlling factor for the size of the field is the gas-water interface. This interface also dips eastward, but at a greater rate than that of the formations on the west; and its dip flattens toward the east to form a concave-upward surface.
APG Search and Discovery Article #90974©1975 AAPG Mid-Continent Section Meeting, Wichita, Kansas