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Lindsey Slough Gas Field: History Of Development

Abstract

Lindsey Slough gas field is the fourth largest gas field in the Sacramento Basin of Northern California. Found in 1962, this field has since produced approximately one-third of a trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Though the field lies adjacent to the giant Rio Vista gas field, Lindsey Slough has little in common with its larger neighbor. Instead of the trap being a large, faulted dome, Lindsey Slough gas is mostly trapped in narrow fault-closed bowing traps and also on horst blocks. Also, whereas most of the gas at Rio Vista comes from sandstones of Eocene age, almost all of the gas at Lindsey Slough comes from sands of Paleocene and Upper Cretaceous age. Lindsey Slough field saw a flurry of drilling activity in the 1960's, which found some of the most prolific areas in the field, and saw another spurt of drilling activity in the 1980's, when the Hasting Island, Avery-Wellman and Willow Springs areas were developed. One unique fact about the Lindsey Slough accumulations is that many of the wells have multiple pay zones, often five or six, and the gas Btu values and make-up of the gas are very similar, inferring possible vertical migration along fault planes into traps.