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 […]
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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 […]
Announcement: Geosteering Workshop June 2018
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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 […]
Announcement: Geosteering Workshop April 2018
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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 […]
The Horn River Basin
The Horn River play is one of the latest grand resource plays to emerge in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Following in the footsteps of such shale gas plays as the Barnett, Antrim and Caney Shale, the Horn River discovery lead to a surge in land sales in remote north-eastern British Columbia. Mineral rights for […]
Cardium Reborn
Back in 2008, the Cardium Formation in central Alberta was stale and tired, with well known areas drilled to exhaustion, and fringes deemed un-economic. As of 2010, thanks in large part to new technologies that include horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracturing (“multistage horizontals”, as nonsensical as it sounds, is becoming a mainstream term), the Cardium […]
The Case for Remote Geo-Steering
The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin is a mature oil and gas area, where most of the easy reservoirs have already been discovered, and in many cases already drained. Most new plays are linked to the deployment of new technologies in reservoirs previously deemed un-economic. Where is remote geo-steering applicable? Not every play is suitable for […]