Speaker: Dr. Peter Flaig
TITLE: Recent investigations into Strawn Group reservoirs along the Eastern Shelf of the Permian Basin
ABSTRACT: The Pennsylvanian Strawn Group is a proven, prolific oil and gas producer along the Eastern Shelf of the Permian Basin. Our Strawn working group at STARR includes siliciclastic and carbonate sedimentologists, ichnologists, geochemists, subsurface modelers, engineers, petrologists, and geophysicists. In this talk I present a summary of ongoing STARR research focused on the Strawn along the Eastern Shelf. These studies include:
- An examination of facies relationships, paleoenvironments, depositional system evolution, underlying controls on stratal stacking, and correlatability of Upper Strawn stratigraphy near the Katz and Anne Tandy fields in Stonewall and King Counties, TX.
- An outcrop analog for the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Strawn in the Bug Scuffle Member of the Gobbler Fm, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico
- A connectivity study in the Katz Field that employs a time series of injector-producer data to develop a Capacitance-Resistance Model (CRM) for connectivity of reservoirs in the field.
- A characterization of the reservoir system in the KMA Field and its association with the Haskell Delta and Knox-Baylor Trough system.
These studies all incorporate state-curated core from the Austin Core Research Center at the BEG, wireline logs from the S&P Global / Petra database, and/or outcrop data to improve reservoir models, correlations, and predictability. The purpose of this talk is to showcase the most recent findings of these ongoing studies and stress the applicability of this research both to academics and industry.
Bio: Peter P. Flaig is a Research Associate Professor at the Bureau of Economic Geology, UT-Austin. His Master’s and Postdoctoral work took him to the Central Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica where he examined sedimentation across the Permian-Triassic boundary. Peter collaborated with paleontologists during his PhD research on the North Slope of Alaska identifying ancient depositional systems and ecosystems of the dinosaur-bearing Prince Creek Formation. He joined the Bureau of Economic Geology in 2009 for a postdoctoral fellowship, and then spent 7 years as lead scientist on fluvial, deltaic, and shallow marine research at the Quantitative Clastics Laboratory Industrial Associates Consortium. Peter has worked for the State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery program for the past 9 years, specifically on the Strawn, Wilcox, and Woodbine.
Peter’s research focuses on deposits of siliciclastic and mixed carbonate-clastic systems, typically integrating sedimentology, ichnology, paleopedology, palynology, geochemistry, high-resolution image capture and analysis, reservoir characterization, and petroleum geology. He has worked extensively on deposits of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway from Texas through the southwestern US (UT, CO, and WY including the Book Cliffs), Canada, and Alaska. Peter has continuing investigations on strata deposited across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming, Pennsylvanian reservoirs on the Eastern Shelf of the Permian Basin, the Cretaceous Woodbine Fm, and the Brookian Megasequence on the North Slope of Alaska.
Peter’s contact information is–email: peter.flaig@beg.utexas.edu, telephone: 512-471-9622, Address: Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, University Station, Box X, Austin, TX, 78713-8924.
Affiliations & Accreditation
PhD University of Alaska-Fairbanks – Geology/Sedimentology
MS University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – Geology/Sedimentology
BS University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – Geology