Green River Oil Shale Resources Database

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently completed a comprehensive assessment of in-place oil in oil shales in the Eocene Green River in the Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. A database was compiled that includes about 47,000 Fischer assays from 186 core holes and 240 rotary drill holes. Most of the oil yield data were analyzed by the former U.S. Bureau of Mines oil shale laboratory in Laramie, Wyoming, and some analyses were made by private laboratories. Total in-place resources for the three assessed units in the Green River Formation are: (1) Tipton Shale Member, 362,816 million barrels of oil (MMBO), (2) Wilkins Peak Member, 704,991 MMBO, and (3) LaClede Bed of the Laney Member, 377,184 MMBO, for a total of 1.44 trillion barrels of oil in place. This compares with estimated in-place resources for the Piceance Basin of Colorado of 1.53 trillion barrels and estimated in-place resources for the Uinta Basin of Utah and Colorado of 1.32 trillion barrels. Click here to return to Main Contents

美国地质调查局（U.S. Geological Survey, USGS）近期完成了针对怀俄明州、科罗拉多州与犹他州大格林河盆地内始新世格林河组油页岩的原地石油资源综合评估。研究团队构建了一套专项数据库，涵盖来自186口取心井与240口旋转钻井的约47000组费希尔分析（Fischer assays）数据。绝大多数油产率数据由位于怀俄明州拉勒米的原美国矿业局油页岩实验室完成检测，剩余部分分析工作则由私营实验室承担。经评估的格林河组三个单元的原地石油总资源量如下：（1）蒂普顿页岩段：362816百万桶石油（MMBO）；（2）威尔金斯峰段：704991百万桶石油；（3）莱恩伊段拉克莱德层：377184百万桶石油，三项合计原地石油总资源量达1.44万亿桶。该评估结果可与科罗拉多州皮斯坎斯盆地预估的1.53万亿桶原地石油资源量，以及犹他州与科罗拉多州境内尤因塔盆地预估的1.32万亿桶原地石油资源量进行对比。点击此处返回主目录