Permian Basin Intro [ UTD GSS PRODUCT ]

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Geological introduction for Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico. UTD GSS PRODUCTS.

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The Permian Basin of West Texas and southeast New Mexico is about 400 km from east to west and 480 km from north to south. It is one of the great continental basins of the United States, the southernmost of the Williston, Michigan, Illinois, Anadarko, and Permian basins. This basin is an important contributor to the strength of the US economy. Today, at around 2 million barrels of produced oil per day, the Permian Basin accounts for over 20% of US oil production. In spite of its importance, most people are unaware of the basin and its significance to the US economy.
Geologists separate the Permian Basin into five subregions: NW shelf, Central Basin Platform, Delaware Basin, Midland Basin, and Val Verde Basin. This basin architecture is hidden beneath a relatively flat arid region, where few people live (UAV + Google Earth). Up to 8,000 m or 5 miles of sediment fills the basin (18 times higher than Empire State Building). Most of the sediments in the Permian Basin were deposited in Paleozoic time, from Cambrian to Permian, or from about 530 to 250 million years ago.
If the basin is filled with Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, and Permian sediments, then why do we call is the Permian Basin? Perhaps it is because it contains one of the world’s thickest deposits of Permian sediments (Go to the cross-section). Permian sediments occupy about half the basin fill. Permian-age reservoirs also contain the majority of trapped oil within the basin.
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