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


The Petro Ninja – Enlighten Geoscience Properly of the Week for October 6, 2022 provides you with one thing to digest over the Thanksgiving weekend.  The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin has typically been handled like a minor character in Monty Pythion and the Holy Grail.  Opposite to some opinions, it’s not useless but.

The Leduc – Woodbend Rex play is an instance of the potential rewards of figuring out and pursuing by-passed pay. I particularly check with 102/03-22-048-26W4/00. Making use of trendy stratigraphic strategies to historical nicely logs allowed for the identification of a major by-passed oil play.

This type of exploration primarily based on geological prospecting may not be conscious however there’s a important useful resource ready to be found on this vogue. A presentation on this play was included within the AAPG ACE 2018  convention highlighting probably the most important latest onshore discoveries in North America.  Time to discover a good petrophysicist to assist come to grips with these outdated nicely logs.

Reference

Case Research of a Giant Standard Oil Pool Discovery in a Mature Basin.  Discovery Pondering Discussion board, Pinckston, R., 2018. AAPG ACE 2018 Salt Lake Metropolis