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Title: The Cretaceous Niobrara Gas Play
Author: Tom Smagala, Mary Beth Cooper
Source: American Gas Association 1979
Year Published: 1979
Abstract: The Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation has yielded natural gas of biogenic origin from structural closures on the shallowdipping east flank of the Denver-Julesburg Basin and the northern plunge of the Las Animas Arch. Present production is from structural traps in the Smoky Hill Member of the Niobrara Formation. It was deposited in the deep, quiet water of the Cretaceous Interior Seaway. The majority of fields located to date are in Colorado and Kansas however, several discoveries have been announced in the Nebraska portion of the Basin. Potential for significant Niobrara gas production exists in the Kennedy and Salina Basins of Nebraska, and from parts of South Dakota, Montana, and Canada. The formation has high porosity and low permeability and requires hydraulic fracture stimulation for economic production. Producing depths range from 1000 and 3200 feet.

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