Digital Petroleum Atlas
Nichols Field
General Information
Nichols Field Oil & Gas Data

General Field Information

Produces Oil: Yes Produces Gas: Yes
Exploration Method: Subsurface geological data
Drilling Casing Practices: Completion practice during the first year of drilling in this field was to set the pipe through the producing section, perforate, treat with mud acid and sand fracture the formation. The Mollie Greenwood 1 (15-097-10134), however, which was drilled by the Ohio Oil Company, was completed open hole with no treatment.

Discovery Well(s)
Discovery Date Well Name Available Well Data Oil Production Gas Production LAS File Viewer with Core Data Plots Core Image Core Data Table
02 MAR 1955 FRANKLIN NICHOLS 1
No Core Images No Core Data
Well Location: NE NE NW 20-T29S-R18W
Rotary Total Depth: 5628
Production Zone: Mississippian Oil and Gas
Initial Gas Potential: 7.3 MMCFGPD
Initial Formation Pressure: 1630
Comments: Well API 15-097-00002 Produces from the Mississippian chert breccia This well was a joint venture with the Falcon-Seaboard Drilling Company.
Data Source: KOGF. Vol. I; DISCOVERY 2191
Discovery Date Well Name Available Well Data Oil Production Gas Production LAS File Viewer with Core Data Plots Core Image Core Data Table
15 FEB 1956 V. H. KOEHN or KOEHN-SCHMIDT 1
No Oil Production No Gas Production No Digital LAS Files No Core Images No Core Data
Well Location: SW SW NE 28-T29S-R18W
Rotary Total Depth: 5060
Production Zone:
Initial Oil Potential: 10 BOPHour during a drill stem test
Comments: This well has a well-defined gas cap and oil column. Well API 15-097-00038
Data Source: KOGF, Vol. I
Discovery Date Well Name Available Well Data Oil Production Gas Production LAS File Viewer with Core Data Plots Core Image Core Data Table
06 NOV 1963 KEITH BROWN 'A' 2
No Oil Production
No Digital LAS Files No Core Images No Core Data
Well Location: C NW SE 32-T29S-R18W
Rotary Total Depth: 4939
Production Zone: Lansing-Kansas City Gas
Discovery Date Well Name Available Well Data Oil Production Gas Production LAS File Viewer with Core Data Plots Core Image Core Data Table
10 NOV 1983 YOST FARMS 1
No Digital LAS Files No Core Images No Core Data
Well Location: C N2 N2 NE 36-T29S-R19W
Rotary Total Depth: 5125
Production Zone: Marmaton Oil
Discovery Date Well Name Available Well Data Oil Production Gas Production LAS File Viewer with Core Data Plots Core Image Core Data Table
12 JAN 1984 UNRUH-GREY 1
No Digital LAS Files No Core Images No Core Data
Well Location: C S2 SW SW 18-T29S-R18W
Rotary Total Depth: 5125
Production Zone: Lansing-Kansas City Oil
Discovery Date Well Name Available Well Data Oil Production Gas Production LAS File Viewer with Core Data Plots Core Image Core Data Table
14 FEB 1985 Landen Trust 'A' 1
No Oil Production
No Digital LAS Files No Core Images No Core Data
Well Location: C NW NE 27-T29S-R18W
Rotary Total Depth: 4950
Production Zone: Marmaton Gas
Discovery Date Well Name Available Well Data Oil Production Gas Production LAS File Viewer with Core Data Plots Core Image Core Data Table
13 JUN 1985 YOST 'A' 1
No Digital LAS Files No Core Images No Core Data
Well Location: SW SE SE 29-T29S-R18W
Rotary Total Depth: 5056
Production Zone: Marmaton Oil
Discovery Date Well Name Available Well Data Oil Production Gas Production LAS File Viewer with Core Data Plots Core Image Core Data Table
12 SEP 1985 UNRUH 'B' 1
No Digital LAS Files No Core Images No Core Data
Well Location: NE NW NE 26-T29S-R19W
Rotary Total Depth: 5172
Production Zone: Mississippian OIl

Summary Production Information

Field Size: 14240 acres
Total Wells: 243
Productive Oil Wells: 96 as of July 2024
Productive Gas Wells: 37 as of July 2024
Abandoned Wells: 64
Cumulative Oil: 6,825,267.49 bbls as of July 2024
Cumulative Gas: 48,238,285.00 mcf as of July 2024

Producing Formation:


LANS.-K.C.
(Lansing - Kansas City Supergroup)

LANS.-K.C. (Lansing - Kansas City Supergroup)
Oil & Gas Production Information
Produces Oil: Yes Produces Gas: Yes

Producing Formation:


MARMATON
(Marmaton Group)
Depth Top: 4950 feet

MARMATON (Marmaton Group)
Thickness
Thickness: 5 feet

MARMATON (Marmaton Group)
Oil & Gas Production Information
Produces Oil: Yes Produces Gas: Yes

Producing Formation:


MISSISSIPPIAN
(Mississippian System)
Depth Top: 4997 feet
Formation Lithology: The reservoir rock in the Nichols Field is most appropriately called the Mississippian chert breccia. It consists of chert fragments in a green or light gray clay matrix. These chert fragments vary in size from microscopic to 10 inches across. The fragments are mostly angular, but lower in the chert section they are subrounded to subangular in a dolomite matrix. At least two, and probably more, hypotheses have been proposed by geologists as to the origin of this chert breccia. In situ weathering seems to be the most popular and accepted hypothesis, but movement of weathered materials off Mississippian topographic highs into local channels or depressions must be considered, at least in part, as an explanation for the variable gross chat thickness. Porosity in the chert breccia unit is of two types. One type is solution, pinpoint to vugular, which is the result of weathering. The second type is due to fracturing of the breccia, resulting from either collapse of the breccia and from either contemporaneous or subsequent Pennsylvanian movement. Permeability is found in both the fractures and solution vugs, as well as at the interfaces of the chert with the shale matrix. The productive capacity of the chert section is controlled by local permeability changes. Consequently, a test with poor drill stem performance might make a fair well after treatment. In structurally high wells, the chert section is observed to thin and become more calcareous in the productive interval, another case of varying porosity-permeability conditions in the area.
Trap Type: This trap was formed by a stratigraphic updip pinchout of the Mississippian chert breccia and by local porosity and permeability conditions. The trap lies on the crest and flanks of a southwest plunging anticlinal nose. The oil zone lies on the southeast flank of the nose.

MISSISSIPPIAN (Mississippian System)
Thickness
Average Thickness: 75 feet

MISSISSIPPIAN (Mississippian System)
Oil & Gas Production Information
Produces Oil: Yes Produces Gas: Yes
Average Oil Column: 40 Average Gas Column: 35
Gas Oil Ratio: 334 cubic feet per barrel Drive Mechanism: For the oil wells: Gas cap expansion and gas solution drives.
Water Production: Most of the oil wells make some water in varying amounts after treatment by mud-acidizing and fracturing.

MISSISSIPPIAN (Mississippian System)
Gas Chemistry
Maximum BTU: 1008

MISSISSIPPIAN (Mississippian System)
Oil Chemistry
Average Oil API Gravity: 37
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