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 […]
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McMurray Oil Saturation
Have you ever wondered what rich McMurray oil saturation looks like at the shaker and in cuttings? See a short video of heavy oil saturated McMurray sand on the shale shakers:
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 […]
SAGD and Heavy Oil Development
Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) and Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS) SAGD/CSS is an unconventional resource development that is widely used to extract bitumen from underground oil sands deposits. These methods involve injecting steam into sub-surface oil sands deposits to heat the bitumen locked in the sand, thereby lowering the viscosity allowing it to flow and to be extracted. In […]
Geosteering in the WCSB
What Works, What Doesn’t Not all plays are equally suitable for a geosteering approach. While geosteering is the preferred method of reservoir navigation in unconventional shale and siltstone reservoirs, the approach is also used in conventional tight oil and gas clastic resource plays, as well as in some heavy oil plays and carbonate reservoirs. This […]
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!
Technologies and Geology
Undoubtedly new technologies drive development of resources plays and have spurred a new stage of exploration in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Engineering based plays place emphasis on drilling and completion techniques, but achieving desired production benefits substantially from improved understanding of reservoir geometry and mechanics, enhanced modelling of the producing formation and ideal placement […]
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 […]
Alberta Township System
The Alberta Township System is a land survey system used in Western Canada to divide land in 1 square mile sections. Initially used to define land for agriculture purposes, the system was later adopted in land sales and leases for hydrocarbon exploration rights. Provincial governments in Western Canada regulate the naming of oil and gas […]
Well classification
Lahee classification Mnemonic Lahee classification Description NFW New Field Wildcat An NFW well is located at a considerable distance beyond the limits of known pools and is outside the boundaries of existing fields. The well is drilled in an area where hydrocarbons have not yet been discovered. The geological risk of this type of well […]
Preparing cuttings samples drilled with invert mud
Invert (oil based) mud poses very specific challenges when it comes to cleaning drill cuttings. Invert mud coats the cuttings in a sticky membrane; in order to eliminate this, the coating has to be dissolved with thinners and shaken off using kinetic energy. Most cleaning methods are time consuming and require large quantities of water […]
Glossary of Geosteering terms
Directional drilling is becoming the predominant method of opening up reservoirs in the mature Western Canada Sedimentart Basin. Wellsite geologists are supervising and controlling the wellpath in order to achieve maximum exposure to the reservoir or to hydrocarbons within a reservoir. Strong understanding of directional drilling terms is paramount in this capacity. Glossary of geosteering terms […]
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 […]