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    A Brief Overview of the Cretaceous Mancos Shale in Northeastern Arizona and its Hydrocarbon Potential

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    Rauzi, S.L.
    Spencer, J.E.
    Issue Date
    2013-06-10
    Keywords
    Arizona Geological Survey Open File Reports
    Upper Cretaceous
    Turonian
    Cenomanian
    Navajo Reservation
    Black Mesa
    Navajo County
    Kayenta
    shale gas
    fossiliferous shale
    Dakota Sandstone
    Mancos Shale
    shale oil
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    Rauzi, S.L. and Spencer, J.E., 2013, A Brief Overview of the Cretaceous Mancos Shale in Northeastern Arizona and its Hydrocarbon Potential. Arizona Geological Survey Open-File Report, OFR-13-08, 8 p.
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    The recent development of horizontal drilling techniques and application of hydraulic fracturing to horizontal wells has dramatically increased oil and gas production in the U.S., notably in areas where extensive organic-rich shale and calcareous shale deposits are present. Shale and limestone formations that contain hydrocarbons without sufficient porosity and permeability to yield oil and gas with conventional drilling techniques are being reconsidered in light of these technological advances. The Mancos Shale in the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico has become a target of interest because the new technologies have unlocked the potential of unconventional resource plays like the Mancos Shale. Broadhead (2013) described the Mancos Shale oil and Mancos Shale gas plays in New Mexico at the San Juan Basin Energy Conference on March 18-19, 2013. In this report we briefly review the geology of the Mancos Shale in Arizona and consider its potential to yield hydrocarbons with horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
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    OFR-13-08
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    Documents in the AZGS Document Repository collection are made available by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please contact azgs-info@email.arizona.edu.
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