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Influence of Fractures on Gas Previous HitProductionNext Hit at Hay Reservoir Field, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Pasternack, Ira
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

Hay Reservoir is the second largest upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale field in the Green River basin with cumulative Previous HitproductionNext Hit from overpressured, tight-gas sandstones totaling more than 150 BCFG. The excellent core control available at Hay Reservoir provides a unique opportunity among Lewis Shale fields for reservoir characterization.

Previous HitProductionNext Hit at Hay Reservoir is primarily from a single lobe-shaped sandstone interval, interpreted as a series of amalgamated sediment gravity flows deposited within a deep-water setting. Laramide uplift of the sandstone depositional toes resulted in the stratigraphic trap configuration responsible for the Hay Reservoir accumulation.

Petrographic studies suggest that porosity Previous HitdevelopmentNext Hit within the very fine- to medium-grained arkosic sandstones is dominantly from the secondary dissolution of feldspar, lithic and carbonate grains. Porosity, permeability and Previous HitproductionNext Hit at Hay Reservoir all appear to improve in structurally updip positions.

Natural fractures have been identified in the majority of the Hay Reservoir cores. These fractures may have had a role in controlling secondary porosity Previous HitdevelopmentNext Hit or controlling Previous HitproductionTop variations at Hay Reservoir field.