Thermal analysis of the southern Powder River Basin, Wyoming

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Mines & Earth Sciences
Department Geology & Geophysics
Creator Chapman, David S.
Other Author McPherson, Brian J. O. L.
Title Thermal analysis of the southern Powder River Basin, Wyoming
Date 1996-11
Description Temperature and geologic data from over 3000 oil and gas wells within a 180 km x 30 km area that transect across the southern Powder River Basin in Wyoming, U.S.A., were used to determine the present thermal regime of the basin. Three-dimensional temperature fields within the transect, based on corrected bottom-hole temperatures (BHTs) and other geologic information, were assessed using: (1) A laterally constant temperature gradient model in conjunction with an L1 norm inversion method, and (2) a laterally variable temperature gradient model in conjunction with a stochastic inversion technique.
Type Text
Publisher Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Journal Title Geophysics
Volume 61
Issue 6
First Page 1689
Last Page 1701
DOI 10.1190/1.1444087
citatation_issn 1070485X
Subject Thermal analysis; Inversion; Bottom hole temperature
Subject LCSH Temperature measurements; Terrestrial heat flow; Powder River Basin (Wyo. and Mont.)
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation McPherson, B. J. O. L., & Chapman, D. S. (1996). Thermal analysis of the southern Powder River Basin, Wyoming. Geophysics, 61(6), 1689-701.
Rights Management (c)Society of Exploration Geophysicists http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/1.1444087
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