Texas Panhandle Granite Wash

In northeastern oldham county the fault system may have provided a hydrocarbon migration route.

Texas panhandle granite wash.

This decades old tight sands play about 160 miles long and 30 miles wide covers parts of western oklahoma and the texas panhandle and horizontal drilling there has produced some exceptional rewards lately. Drilling times improving in the cleveland play. It is pushing the granite wash play which has been known to be concentrated in the north easternmost texas panhandle distally to the east into oklahoma and north into hemphill county. In texas our intrastate natural gas pipelines are connected to the major natural gas producing formations in the texas panhandle including the granite wash formation and delaware and midland basins in the permian basin.

The wash system more commonly known as the granite wash in the anadarko basin drapes around the uplift to the dalhart and palo duro basins as well. The texas panhandle and southwestern oklahoma is home to an abundance of unconventional targets most notably the cleveland tonkawa and marmaton formations. People think of this as a texas pan handle only play but it s pervasive throughout the area. Both oil and gas bearing these plays display characteristics similar to its neighbor the more well known granite wash play.

Oil natural gas are found in multiple zones at depths between 11 000 and 13 000 feet. Canyon granite wash conglomerates and sandstones have a total thick ness of about 450 feet 137 m and were derived from granitic rocks of the bravo dome. The lambert 1 hryhor and sundance fields in oldham county texas produce oil from the niddle pennsylvanian canyon granite wash. The source beds of oil are most likely penn shales that are interbedded with the reservoirs.

The granite wash is a tight sand play located in the texas panhandle railroad commission of texas district 10 and western oklahoma. In certain plays the natural gas is found as deep as 17 000 feet. The granite wash oil play is geographically quite a large area located in the northern texas panhandle spreading to western oklahoma and southwest kansas. We anticipate completing approximately four extended lateral granite wash horizontal wells.

The colony granite wash is situated at the eastern end of a series of des moines age granite wash fields that extend along the southern flank of the anadarko basin approximately 60 miles into the texas panhandle. In our texas panhandle granite wash play we completed 12 extended lateral horizontal gas condensate wells in our buffalo wallow field.