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Conference: CIPPE 2019

Chinook Consulting exhibit at CIPPE 2019 is part of the Alberta-Canada Pavilion in Beijing at New China International Exhibition Center from Wednesday, March 27th to Friday, March 29th.

Picture Calendar 2019

Our call for pictures for the 2019 calendar brought in many great photos of rigs, wellsite operations and rocks sent by our team members from all over Canada and a few from overseas. Thank you all for your wonderful submissions; it was difficult to pick a limited number for the 12 months of the year. […]

Job Opening: Production Engineer [2018]

Senior Oil & Gas Production Engineer We are hiring senior production engineers to handle the daily oil and gas production operations and help to maximize profitability by increasing revenue and lowering operating expenses. Candidates should be willing to work overseas (North Africa) in rotation basis, as a part of a multi-disciplinary team.  Responsibilities: Good experience […]

Job Opening: Reservoir Engineer [2018]

Senior Oil & Gas Reservoir Engineer  Candidates should be willing to work overseas (North Africa) in rotation basis, as a part of a multi-disciplinary team. Responsibilities: Evaluate exploitation opportunities including EOR. Analyze and QC reservoir data Update/rebuild reservoir simulation models to characterize GEA fields; integrate learnings from previous reservoir studies History-match these models to available […]

Job Opening: Workover Supervisor [2018]

Senior Workover Supervisor We are hiring a senior Workover Supervisor to handle the daily management of a service rig, coordinate workover, and completion activities and supervise the safety of the operation. Candidates should be willing to work overseas (North Africa) on a rotation basis, as part of a multi-disciplinary multi-cultural team. Responsibilities: Responsible for directing and […]

Traditional Art

Chinook is proud to announce collaboration with traditional artist Mulidzas Curtis Wilson. Curtis designs elements of the chinookpetroleum.com website in the traditional West Coast Ligwilda’xw style. Mulidzas is the traditional name handed to Curtis Wilson during a family Potlatch held in 2001. Curtis was born, raised and lived in Campbell River. His family comes from […]

Light The Night Walk

Chinook is proud to be a route sponsor for the Calgary LIGHT THE NIGHT WALK in support of the Leukemia & Limphoma Society of Canada. We’re looking forward to walking at this year’s Light The Night Walk. Please encourage your friends, family members, coworkers, or anyone else you know, to join our team and help […]

Announcement: Petroleum Geochemistry Service

Chinook Consulting has recently added Geochem Lab Services to our ever expanding suite of professional services. Geochemical well logs are created from samples using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) that measure elemental concentrations and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) that measure mineral/phase characteristics and abundance. Geochemical well logging is a proven tool that helps clarify subtle changes in hydrocarbon […]

East Duvernay Shale Basin

Devonian Duvernay Formation, East Shale Basin, Alberta Summary The East Shale Basin of Alberta is located geographically in the Three Hills and the Ponoka/Gull Lake area, with recent activity mainly found within the strike areas of Joffre, Morningside and Huxley. The East Shale Basin (ESB) has seen a flurry of recent activity since 2016 following […]

Technological Approach in Resource Plays

The aptly titled “shale revolution” is changing the energy production landscape in North America one resource play at the time.  The potent combination of horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracking is unlocking oil and gas reserves around the continent.  Faced with dwindling recoverable reserves in mature basins, explorers and producers are using technological advances to extract […]

Conference: AAPG ACE Convention 2018

AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition ACE 2018 – Salt Lake City We are pleased to be part of AAPG ACE 2018 again this year. The conference is hosted by the Utah Geological Association. Chinook Consulting will be on the exhibit floor at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah at booth 801 […]

Conference: GeoConvention 2018

Joint CSPG-CWLS-CSEG Convention: GeoConvention 2018 We are pleased to be part of GeoConvention 2018 again this year. Chinook Consulting will be on the exhibit floor at the TELUS Convention Centre at booth 218 from Monday, May 7th to Wednesday, May 9th. Register at the link below for a Free Exhibit Hall Pass. We look forward to […]

Drilling Optimization Approach

At Chinook Consulting Services we define Drilling Optimization as: Constructing a well that meets all objectives, for both reservoir access and data gathering, at the lowest possible cost and/or time without compromising HS&E or wellbore quality   In order to meet this objective, we believe that the most two main areas focus should be: Borehole […]

Drilling activity in the world

Rig activity throughout the regions of the world changes daily and with it changes the amount of services needed for the oil and gas industry. Rig counts throughout history and the world varied widely, between 6000 in 1981 and 1100 in 1999. Reasons for wild swings in rig utilization are numerous, among them political, technological, […]

Appointment: Drilling Manager

We are please to announce the appointment of Razvan Sima, P.Eng to the position of Global Manager, Drilling and Completions.   Razvan is leading our Drilling and Completions Department, with a focus on Drilling Optimization and Well Delivery Optimization Services. Welcome to the team!

The Grosmont Carbonate Trend

The Grosmont Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Upper Devonian (Frasnian) age. It is present in the sub-surface of north-eastern Alberta,1 south-west of the Sub-Cretaceous erosional edge and north-east of the Ireton Shale facies of central Alberta. The ERCB estimates more than 400 billion barrels (65 billion m3) bitumen in place are trapped in the […]

The Duvernay Shale

The Duvernay Shale came to prominence in 2010 and 2011, when more than $2 billion were spent in auctions for land rights targeting the Devonian shale formation. The liquids rich play follows the trend set by similar unconventional targets in the United States, such as the prolific Eagle Ford Shale in Texas. Technology advances such […]

The Montney Play

The Montney Play is the foremost example of unconventional gas play in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Large deposits of shale and siltstone with poor permeability contain vast quantities of gas in the west and oil in the coarser eastern facies of the Montney Formation. An estimated 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas is […]