Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The Denver Basin...(Video)
The Denver Basin is an active petroleum producer in the United States. One of the neat things about the Denver Basin is that the geology is easily observed from the outcrops all along the front range area. The Denver Basin, show in the picture below, has multiple fields which produce both gas and oil.
The Denver Basin has been producing oil since 1901 when oil was discovered in the fractured Pierre Shale Formation at Boulder oil field. Since then, thousands of wells have produced trillions of cubic feet of gas and millions of barrels of oil from the different hydrocarbon rich formations in the Denver Basin. Some of these formations are tight sands, chalks, and oil shale units, which require stimulation to economically produce oil and gas, an unconventional play. The video below demonstrates the petroleum geology in our back yard of the Front Range of Colorado. What people don't realize driving to work everyday....OIL!!!
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That about sums it up... we geologists just BS for awhile and then drink a beer.
ReplyDelete@ Davey- Lol
ReplyDeleteThe video is great I love your enthusiasm and charisma.
i want your body
ReplyDeleteTell your friends this blog is for class, and to keep it clean :).
ReplyDeleteYour enthusiasm IS great. You're like the crocodile hunter, but for rocks. The wind makes it a little hard to hear, but this is a great vid otherwise. Nice work.
And good to know all the geologists are celebrating all of our great oil in the Denver Basin.