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COVID-19 Response

Chinook Consulting drafted a Business Continuity Plan to deal with the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan contains provisions for remote operations, procedures for dealing with travel, sickness and social distancing. The overall strategy is to continue to provide service excellence while taking all necessary precautions to curb the spread of the virus. […]

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 […]

Renewed Covid-19 restrictions

As of November 25, 2020, the Government of Alberta declared a state of health emergency. Likewise, the City of Calgary imposed a state of local health emergency. These announcements cam with renewed restrictions related to in-person meetings and gatherings. These restrictions are expected to be in place until December 15th, 2020. With this in mind, we […]

Ongoing Projects: Alternative Energy and Technology

A list of recent and ongoing clean tech projects in Western Canada This post lists renewable and alternative energy projects that were built, are under constructions or are proposed in Western Canada. As a service provider to the upstream oil and gas industry, we find multiple applications of our skill and technology in clean tech […]

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 […]

2020 Events

This post is a list of events where Chinook Consulting will be present in 2020. Catch up with us at the events outlined herein. Check back often, as this page will be updated throughout the year.

Conference: GeoConvention 2020 – ONLINE

POSTPONED to September 21 Joint CSPG-CWLS-CSEG Convention:   GeoConvention 2020 As of May 25th, the format of the Conference is switched to virtual. Initially scheduled for May 2020, the conference was postponed to September 21st to 23rd due to the COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing social distancing efforts. Register at the link below The conference is organized […]

Clean Energy, Efficient Use of Resources

At Chinook Consulting, we are firmly rooted in our oil and gas expertise, while actively pursuing developments in renewable energy and alternate resources. We were always at the forefront of technology and novel approaches, and we continue to prioritize new and exciting developments as part of our growth strategy. Transferable skills from  the oil and […]

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 […]

Webinar: Romania Energy Market

Web seminar about Romania’s energy sector, hosted by CGEF, the presentation showcased some of the particularities of Oil and gas business in Romania.

Conference: CEEC 2020 – ONLINE

Central-Eastern Europe and Caspian (CEEC) Scout Group Fall Meeting:
The group brings together operators and stakeholders operating from Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Croatia to Georgia and Turkey.

Conference: URTeC 2020 – ONLINE

UPDATE: As of May 20, the conference is moved to a fully on-line format, due to uncertainty related to Coronovirus outbreak Joint AAPG-SPE-SEG Convention: URTeC 2020 The Conference is organized and endorsed  by the following organizations: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) American Rock Mechanics Association […]

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 […]