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Well of the Week Selects – The WCSB ain’t dead yet

October 6, 20224:59 AM Neil Watson

The Petro Ninja – Enlighten Geoscience Well of the Week for October 6, 2022 will give you something to digest over the Thanksgiving weekend.  The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin has often been treated like a minor character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  Contrary to some opinions, it is not dead yet.

The Leduc – Woodbend Rex play is an example of the potential rewards of identifying and pursuing by-passed pay. I specifically refer to 102/03-22-048-26W4/00. Applying modern stratigraphic techniques to ancient well logs allowed for the identification of a significant by-passed oil play.

This style of exploration based on geological prospecting might not be au courant but there is a significant resource waiting to be discovered in this fashion. A presentation on this play was included in the AAPG ACE 2018  conference highlighting the most significant recent onshore discoveries in North America.  Time to find a good petrophysicist to help come to grips with those old well logs.

Reference

Case Study of a Large Conventional Oil Pool Discovery in a Mature Basin.  Discovery Thinking Forum, Pinckston, R., 2018. AAPG ACE 2018 Salt Lake City

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