Wolfcamp Upper A Fan Study
AAPG
ACE2019
ANNUAL CONVENTION & EXHIBITION
19 22 May. San Antonio, Texas
Scholle,
2002
NORTHWEST
SHELF
Matador August 2015 Investor Presentation.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1
520006/000152000615000140/matadoraug
ust2015investo.htm
SHELF
SHELF MARGIN
SLOPE
BASIN
TURBIDITY
CURRENT
SUSPENSION SETTLING
DELAWARE BASIN
Reciprocal model of sedimentation in Delaware Basin -
Traditionally, carbonate fans are not generally recognized
NORTHWEST
Lagoon
SHELF
Back-reet open shelt
Beel
Fow-reet carbonate apron
A
Capitan
shelf margin
Lowstand Interval
1st Bone Spring Lime
Leonard
HST
LST
DELAWARE BASIN
1st Bone Spring Sand
2nd Bone Spring Lime
HST
2nd Bone Spring Sand
Highstand Interval
LST
3rd Bone Spring Lime
265 mya End of Bone Springs - Warmer!
Paradigm:
1. Most interpretations are
HST
Delaware Basin
a variant of Handford
3rd Bone Spring Sand
(1981, American
LST
Association Petroleum
Used with permission of
Dr. Ron Blakey, 2005
Northern Arizona Univ.
Dept. of Geology
http://en.ucc.neu.edu
Geologists Bulletin, v. 65,
p. 1602-1616.)
HST
Wolfcamp
Study
Interval
Wolfcamp "A", "B", "D"
= Oil & Gas Source Rocks and
Resource Reservoir Rocks
Extensively distributed basin-wide
Matador
2. Mudstones deposited
from suspension settling
3. Carbonate-dominated
turbidites and debris
flows largely restricted to
basin margins
devon
Upper Penn Shale
Strawn
San Andres
Yeso
Abo
Delaware Mountain Group
1st, 2nd, 3rd Bone Spring Sands
Sands confined to channels
and distributary systems
MUD FLATS
SALT
PAN
SHELF (SAND-MUD)
CARBONAT
CANYON
1st, 2nd, 3rd Bone Spring Carbonates
Wolfcamp "A" Carbonates
Wolfcamp "D" Carbonates
More limited in areal extent
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