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Reservoir Characteristics of Nearshore and Shelf Sandstones in the Jurassic Smackover Formation, Thomasville Field, Mississippi

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The Jurassic Smackover trend throughout the U. S. Gulf Coast is typified by production from a highenergy carbonate facies, most commonly at depths of less than 15,000 feet (4,575 m). However, Thomasville Field and four other nearby fields in the trend produce sour gas (containing hydrogen sulfide) with sustained high production rates from low porosity and permeability sandstones that are interbedded with tight nonreservoir carbonates. These fields are located in central Mississippi in the informally designated sour gas trend. Thomasville Field was the first discovered and largest of these fields, containing more than one-half of the more than one trillion cubic feet (2.8 × 1010 m3) of gas in the sour gas trend. Thomasville was developed over a span of more than 10 years, requiring both detailed geological interpretations and the development of new engineering technology.

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Shew, R.D., Garner, M.M. (1990). Reservoir Characteristics of Nearshore and Shelf Sandstones in the Jurassic Smackover Formation, Thomasville Field, Mississippi. In: Barwis, J.H., McPherson, J.G., Studlick, J.R.J. (eds) Sandstone Petroleum Reservoirs. Casebooks in Earth Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8988-0_19

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