Resource Assessment of the In-Place and Potentially Recoverable Deep Natural Gas Resource of the Onshore Interior Salt Basins, North Central and Northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Annual Progress Report for Year 3

摘要

The principal research effort for Year 3 of the project has been resource assessment. Emphasis has been on estimating the total volume of hydrocarbons generated and expelled and the potential amount of this resource that is thermogenic (deep) gas in the North Louisiana Salt Basin, the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin, the Manila Subbasin and the Conecuh Subbasin. Other tasks for Year 3 include assessing the potential volume of gas in deeply buried reservoirs as a result of thermal cracking of entrapped liquid hydrocarbons being converted to gas and identifying areas in the study area with high potential for the recovery of deep gas.