Hydrocarbon Reservoir Potential of the Mississippian Chainman Shale, Western Utah (MP 15-4) Stratigraphic Studies Think again

Think again

Although a major surface-faulting earthquake has not occurred on the Wasatch fault zone since the state was settled in 1847

which averages 725 feet thick

Pulverizers

000 1″=11

Hydrocarbon Reservoir Potential of the Mississippian Chainman Shale, Western Utah (MP 15-4) Stratigraphic Studies Think againBy: S. Robert Bereskin, John D. McLennan, Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., and Peter J. Nielsen The Mississippian Chainman Shale represents a potential target for untapped oil and gas resources in western Utah and eastern Nevada. This study focuses on the lithologic, facies, petrographic, petrophysical, and geochemical characteristics of a 500 meter thick Chainman stratigraphic section exposed in the central Confusion Range of western Millard County, Utah. A