Chinook Consulting

Category: Geoscience

Lithium Production

New lithium extraction technologies from reservoir brine offers new opportunities in old oil fields.

Helium Development

A global shortage of Helium spurred a new wave of exploration in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

Transferable Skill and Technology

The oil and gas industry is constantly changing. Over the past few years, it has been under constant pressure to change towards renewable energy and alternative resources. There is a multitude of transferable skills and technologies that can be used towards these new developments. Some examples of transferable sills and technologies, primarily developed and perfected […]

Reservoir Navigation With Resistivity Forward Modeling

A workflow for geosteering thermal oil sands development wells Chinook is one of the more active services companies in Canadian thermal oil sands developments. Services provided include wellsite geology, coring supervision, core logging, geochemical analysis and now also geosteering, performed remotely and in the field. Since the launch of capable geosteering software packages ten years […]

Multilateral, Feather, Fishbone

A look at Well Designs in a Mature Basin Disclaimer: The following material is based on Chinook’s experience in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, not on all wells drilled in Canada. While the image may be incomplete, Chinook’s exposure to well drilling in the basin is large enough to be a representative sample of general […]

Webinar: Geosteering with resistivity forward modeling

A workflow for navigating thermal oil sands wells Resistivity geosteering has been on our radar for some time. With ROGII releasing a resistivity forward modeling module as part of Starsteer, the use of resistivity for geosteering complex reservoirs such as the McMurray became applicable for operators and third party service providers such as Chinook. We […]

Webinar: Resistivity Forward Modeling

Rogii and Chinook will co-present a webinar showcasing workflows related to geosteering SAGD wells with the use of LWD resistivity logs. What Webinar: geosteering for SAGD thermal oil wells using StarSteer resistivity modeling When June 11th 2020, 1:30 to 2:30pm MST How Webex Registration link The software deployed is StarSteer (with Resistivity module), and the […]

Emerging Clearwater Play in North-Central Alberta

Controls on Productivity A Comprehensive Play Study The emerging play in the Lower Cretaceous Clearwater and Spirit River Formations in central Alberta, Canada continues to draw attention and capital based on early production results, it’s competitiveness and perceived scalability. Average production from this interval has grown ~ 70% year over year based on sustainable production […]