Paleozoic Shale-Gas Resources
Paleozoic Shale-Gas Resources of the Colorado Plateau and Eastern Great Basin, Utah
Funded by Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America

Potential Paleozoic shale-gas play areas for the Manning Canyon and Paradox Formations in Utah, and the identified “sweet spots” for each play area.
Project Summary
- Executive Summary (pdf)
Publication
Paleozoic shale-gas resources of the Colorado Plateau and eastern Great Basin, Utah—multiple frontier exploration opportunities, edited by Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., UGS Bulletin 136
Publication (pdf)
Appendices (ZIP file – 357MB)
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Reports and Deliverables
- Proposal (pdf)
- Well Database (xls)
- Bibliography of published stratigraphic definition, petrologic, rock mechanics, geochemical, and geochronology analysis (pdf)
Presentations (pdf)
Burial Histories of Mississippian Potential Source and Shale-Gas Reservoir Rocks, Central and Western Utah
Robert Ressetar, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah
Presented at AAPG-RMS Annual Conference, Durango, CO, June 2010
| Poster (7MB) |
Gas Shale Reservoir Characteristics from the Pennsylvanian of Southeastern Utah
S. Robert Bereskin & Tarn D. Bereskin, Bereskin and Associates, Inc.
John D. McLennan, Energy and Geoscience Institute
Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Presented at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, Denver, Colorado, June 2009
| pdf file, Poster panel 1 (4MB) | |
| pdf file, Poster panel 2 (5MB) | |
| pdf file, Poster panel 3 (MB) |
Contact
For more information on this project, contact Tom Chidsey, 801-537-3364, email: tomchidsey@utah.gov.



