Underground Gas Storage facilities are also regulated by the United States Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). All these rock units are in positions that are close to horizontaL Only on the flanks of major uplifts and very locally elsewhere are dips measured in angles of more than a fraction of a degree. The Agencies and Institutions participants give no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. In recent years gas production from outside and stratigraphically beneath the Hugoton has been gaining in importance. See Fig. 64, pt. Shales mostly lack carbonaceous materials. Thus both Lower Ordovician and Upper Cambrian rocks are included (Jewett, 1959; Table 1). Oil and gas traps are somewhat complex; there are numerous examples of "stratigraphic" traps of various types below disconformities and elsewhere in the rock section. In Rice, Ellsworth, Reno, and Kingman Counties, salt has been mined by the room-and-pillar method as well as hydraulically. A lock ( LockA locked padlock ) or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. [available online], Jewett, J. M., and Newell, N. D. (1935) Geology of Wyandotte County, Kansas: Kansas Geol. These data and related graphics, if available, are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. Parts of sec. Gunter Sandstone in basal part of Van Buren Formation. As shown in Figure 3, older rocks are in general at shallower depth in the eastern part of Kansas than in the western part. Sub-surface facilities used for storing natural gas. [available online], Lee, Wallace (1940) Subsurface Mississippian rocks of Kansas: Kansas Geol. 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, T. 21 S., R. 19 E. Parts of sec. Surface in southwestern and subsurface in western Kansas. Possibly at some time these beds may be of use as storage reservoirs. [available online], Kansas Geological Survey Thickness as much as 300+ feet. As a petroleum-bearing province in Kansas, the Nemaha is an area of slight but somewhat indefinite width. Mapping Resources implemented as part of the North American Cooperation on Energy Information (NACEI) between the Department of Energy of the United States of America, the Department of Natural Resources of Canada, and the Ministry of Energy of the United Mexican States. "Tertiary" chiefly included in Ogallala Formation. Greenish-gray, silty, dolomitic shale restricted principally to area of ancient Northeast Kansas Basin. (1952) Pleistocene geology of Kansas: Kansas Geol. 4) are quite distinct from earlier and later ones (Jewett, 1958, 1960), and are almost without any indications in surface rocks. 147, p. 1-254. Surface in southwestern Kansas and subsurface in western Kansas. Locally it is 45 feet thick. Some "structural traps" in Pennsylvanian rocks in eastern Kansas have no or very little surface indications; some structures that are traps in pre-Pennsylvanian sediments are completely concealed. Survey, v. 12, p. 1-59. Many oil and gas traps. 77, p. 1-308. Ill-sorted, round to angular, coarse- to fine-grained sandstone. "Granite wash" is a term frequently used for deposits lying on the Precambrian but overlain by sediments as young as Pennsylvanian. Thickness of these rocks ranges from a featheredge on the flanks of the late-Paleozoic uplifts to about 1,800 feet. Many of the hydrocarbon accumulations are in traps that are "structural" in origin, although concentrations that commonly are said to have taken place because of lateral changes in porosity, as in "shoestring sands", are plentiful. These rocks have been identified in the Forest City, Salina, and Sedgwick Basins. [available online], Moore, R. C., Frye, J. C., and Jewett, J. M. (1944) Tabular description of outcropping rocks in Kansas: Kansas Geol. Sandstones generally silty, carboniferous, and clayey, as much as 50 feet thick. Depleted natural gas or oil fields function as gas storage reservoirs in California. Consumption within Kansas amounted to only 362,280,000 M cubic feet or 64 percent of the marketed production. United States, Email:phmsa.pipelinesafety@dot.gov Glauconitic, noncherty dolostone. Little research would be required to determine suitable sites for sizable reservoirs. The Gunter Sandstone is the basal member of the Van Buren Formation. On a regional structural basis, the two parts, both lying west of the Nemaha Anticline and east of the Central Kansas Uplift (Fig. U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Because of the general scarcity of faulting and steep folding, anticlinal and domal structures are relatively simple and easily defined (Jewett, 1951, 1958, 1960). 4, p. 1-31. 89, p. 1-132. The Bonneterre Dolostone is widespread in eastern and western Kansas but is believed to be absent from the central part of the state. Farther south in the area, oil and gas is produced from structures more or less parallel to and near the axis and in the anticline itself. [available online], Latta, B. F. (1946) Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Belvidere area, Kiowa County, Kansas: Kansas Geol. Map 48, sheets 1-7. These rocks are absent from major uplifts, but elsewhere in the state they are widespread. LPG storage projects are in operation in McPherson, Reno, Grant, and Kingman Counties. Subsurface only, except small outcrop area in southeast corner of state. Moore and others, 1951, p. 13; Frye and Leonard, 1952; Geological Survey ground-water reports. Comments to webadmin@kgs.ku.edu A very consequential amount of natural gas has been produced from Mississippian rocks in Kansas. Survey Bull. Sandstone beds, mostly in lower part, offer probable reservoirs in many areas. For present purposes, Kansas east of the Nemaha Anticline may be regarded as a unit, but it is well to note that the so-called basins are extremely broad structures and were separate areas of deposition during an extremely brief interval of time in the middle part of the Pennsylvanian period. 41, pt. Attention is called to Bulletin 89, "The Kansas Rock Column" by Moore and others (1951), and to a chart "Graphic Representation and Classification of Rocks in Kansas" (Jewett, 1959). Moore and others, 1951, p. 17; Frye, 1949; Smith, 1940; Frye, Leonard, and Swineford, 1956; Geological Survey ground-water reports. Lenticular sandstone bodies in the lower part of the Cretaceous section in the northwestern part of the Salina Basin offer possible reservoirs for gas storage, should economic or other conditions warrant storage in this part of the state. CalGEM has entered a 60106 agreement with PHMSA to act as a state partner and inspect UGS facilities on behalf ofPHMSA. Farther south in eastern Kansas there are conspicuous "highs" near Mound City, in Linn County; near Kincaid, in Anderson County; near Humboldt, in Allen County, and near Cherryvale, in Montgomery County. Survey Bull. Maximum thickness about 750 feet. Parts of sec. Survey Bull. The locations of active gas fields and of major gas pipe lines are shown on Figure 1. Gas storage seemingly is possible but not now practicable in Arbuckle rocks. 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, T. 34 S., R. 17 E. Parts of sec. This volume is more than double the total production of natural gas in Kansas prior to 1949 and four times the amount produced previous to 1938. B, p. 25-36. B., and Swineford, Ada (1956) Stratigraphy of the Ogallala Formation (Neogene) of northern Kansas: Kansas Geol. The facilities are usually hollowed-out salt domes, geological reservoirs (depleted oil or gas field) or water bearing sands (called aquifers) topped by an impermeable cap rock. Underground Natural Gas Storage: Facility Locations, The following map shows the various types and locations of U.S. underground natural gas storage facilities. They lie unconformably below the Chattanooga (or Boice) Shale and unconformably above various older rocks. Subsurface in most of state, but absent on principal uplifts. Clayey and calcareous shales predominant, fine-grained chalky, platy limestones constituting most of the lower middle part. Large amounts of gas also have been produced in the area. Gas accumulation there is controlled mainly by the lateral gradation of porous dolomitic marine beds up dip into fine-grained dense, seemingly nonmarine strata farther west. 32, 33, T. 22 S., R. 19 E; 1, 12, 13, T. 23 S., R. 19 E; 5, 6, 8, T. 23 S., R. 19 E. Parts of sec. In places the shale is an effective "cap rock". geoinfo@canada.ca, Natural Gas Underground Storage - North American Cooperation on Energy Information. By far the greatest amount of Kansas gas production has come from the prolific Hugoton Gas Area in western Kansas and adjoining areas of the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandles. [available online]. In outcrops and subsurface in much of central and western Kansas. The "Tertiary" Ogallala Formation of western Kansas has a maximum thickness of about 400 feet. 111, p. 1-179. CalGEMis collaborating with public health professionals and soliciting comments from the public to create a formal draftofthe proposed regulationsto submit forAdministrativeProcedures Act(APA)rulemakingthrough the Office of Administrative Law (OAL). The Hugoton gas reservoir is a stratigraphic trap that is due to irregular distribution of porosity along the strike (N 20 E) of the gently east dipping Permian beds. Survey Bull. Jewett, J. M. (1954) Oil and gas in eastern Kansas: Kansas Geol. Depths to potential reservoirs in Pennsylvanian rocks throughout the two basinal areas range from a few hundred to about 4,500 feet. In addition to their being impractical for gas storage because of being freshwater aquifers, the Neogene beds lack impervious seals or sufficient overburden above what otherwise might be storage reservoirs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 20, T. 26 S., R. 5 E. Max. This shows a recent rise in importance of gas production within Kansas outside the limits of the Hugoton Gas Field. 1) is in a stratigraphic trap in Lower Permian (Wolfcampian) rocks. Official websites use .govA .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Enforcement letters sent by PHMSA, as a result of CalGEM inspections, can be found on PHMSA's stakeholder outreach webpage here. Much of the gas and oil that has been discovered in eastern Kansas occurs in "shoestring sands". Farquhar, O. C. (1957) The Precambrian rocks of Kansas: Kansas Geol. 3 for distribution. Survey Bull. Important source of fresh water in southeastern Kansas. Moore and others, 1951, p. 37; Swineford, 1955; Kulstad, 1960. During 1958 natural gas was produced from 49 counties in Kansas. A small amount of gas has been produced from "Hunton" rocks in Kansas. Union Gas System, Incorporated, operates five projects, the Buffalo and Fredonia in Wilson County, the Liberty North and Liberty South in Montgomery County, and Longton in Chautauqua County. Mapping Resources implemented as part of the North American Cooperation on Energy Information (NACEI) between the Department of Energy of the United States of America, the Department of Natural Resources of Canada, and the Ministry of Energy of the United Mexican States. Oil-bearing rocks of lower-Middle and of Lower Pennsylvanian age in deep subsurface in southwestern Kansas. Survey Oil and Gas Inves., Prelim. Clays, silts, sands, gravels, boulders, in surficial deposits, mostly unconsolidated, comprising soil, valley fillings, stream terraces, deposits of loess, and the glacial deposits of northeastern Kansas. These are elongate sandstone bodies enclosed by less pervious shale. (1948) Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician rocks in Kansas: Kansas Geol. Finished, the total storage capacity will be about 16 billion cubic feet, making it the largest in Kansas. Smith, H. T. U. Natural gas is injected into the storage reservoirs through gas storage wells and stored until withdrawn for use. Because of the density of drilling in the Central Kansas area, many data as to porosity and attitude of comparatively shallow rocks are available. All Kansas west and south of the Central Kansas Uplift area is designated as a single petroliferous province, the Hugoton Embayment.