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Canada Rocks 22 Book Review: Canada Rocks – The Geological Journey 24 CSPG Finance Report 26 Reservoir Engineering for Geologists Part 5B 30 The Neoproterozoic Old Fort Point Formation, Southern Canadian Cordillera 35 Cadomin Tight Gas Reservoirs along the updip edge of the WCSB Deep Basin 40 2008 CSPG CSEG CWLS Convention MARCH 2008 VOLUME 35, ISSUE 3 Canadian Publication Mail Contract – 40070050 IHS AccuMap® “AccuMap encompasses speed, stability, efficiency and accuracy. As an intuitive and easy-to-use product, AccuMap serves a broad audience, from field users to the CEO.” Darrel Saik Senior Geological Technologist Paramount Energy Trust AccuMap is the most widely used and highly trusted oil and gas mapping software touching every segment of E&P, for every professional. www.ihs.com/energy Call toll free 1 877 495 4473 I_dY['/(-$$$ MARCH 2008 – VOLUME 35, ISSUE 3 ARTICLES Book Review: Canada Rocks - The Geological Journey ................................. 22 by Ashton Embry CSPG Finance Report ............................................................................................ 24 by Peter Harrington Reservoir Engineering for Geologists CSPG OFFICE #600, 640 - 8th Avenue SW Part 5B – Material Balance for Oil Reservoirs ............................................... 26 Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 1G7 by Ray Mireault P. Eng., Chris Kupchenko E.I.T., and Lisa Dean P. Geol. Tel: 403-264-5610 Fax: 403-264-5898 Web: www.cspg.org Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm The Neoproterozoic Old Fort Point Formation, Southern Canadian Cordillera ....................................................................... 30 Business Manager: Tim Howard Email: [email protected] by Mark D. Smith, R.W.C. (Bill) Arnott, and G.M. Ross Membership Services: Kristina Keith Email: [email protected] Cadomin Tight Gas Reservoirs along the updip edge Communications & Public Affairs: Heather Tyminski of the WCSB Deep Basin ................................................................................ 35 Email: [email protected] Conventions & Conferences: Shauna Carson by Brad Hayes Email: [email protected] Conventions & Conferences Assistant: Tanya Santry 2008 CSPG CSEG CWLS Convention Short Courses ................................. 40 Email: [email protected] Corporate Relations Manager: Sarah Barton 2008 CSPG CSEG CWLS Convention Field Trips ......................................... 43 Email: [email protected] Programs and Services Manager: Lori Humphrey Clements 2008 CSPG CSEG CWLS Convention Guest Speakers ............................... 46 Email: [email protected] Reception: Dayna Rhoads Email: [email protected] DEPARTMENTS EDITORS/AUTHORS Executive Comment .................................................................................................. 5 Please submit RESERVOIR articles to the CSPG office. Submission deadline is the 23rd day of the month, two months prior to issue Technical Luncheons .................................................................................................. 8 date. (e.g., January 23 for the March issue). Division Talks ........................................................................................................... 14 To publish an article, the CSPG requires digital copies of the Rock Shop .......................................................................................................... 29, 38 document. Text should be in Microsoft Word format and illustrations should be in TIFF format at 300 dpi., at final size. For additional information on manuscript preparation, refer to the Guidelines for Authors published in the CSPG Bulletin or contact the editor. Technical Editor Ben McKenzie Tarheel Exploration Tel: 403-277-4496, Email: [email protected] Coordinating Editor Heather Tyminski Comunications and Public Affairs, CSPG Tel: 403-513-1227, Email: [email protected] ADVERTISING Advertising inquiries should be directed to Sarah Barton, Tel: 513-1229, Email: [email protected]. The deadline to reserve advertising space is the 23rd day of the month, two months prior to issue date. The RESERVOIR is published 11 times per year by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. This includes a combined issue for the months of July/August. Advertisements, as well as inserts, mailed with the publication are paid advertisements. No endorsement or sponsorship by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists is implied. The contents of this publication may not be reproduced either in part or in full without the consent of the publisher. FRONT COVER Blind Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Muskox bull standing on Lower Design & Layout by Sundog Printing. Printed in Canada by Sundog Printing. Permian Great Bear Cape Formation with same succession overthrusted in the background. Photo by Benoit Beauchamp. Additional copies of the RESERVOIR are available at the CSPG office for $3.00. RESERVOIR ISSUE 3 • MARCH 2008 3 PETRA® connects to the industry’s most popular data source PETRAprovides geoscientists and engineers the analysis tools needed for today’s exploration and exploitation challenges IHS Enerdeq Desktop and IHS AccuMap directly export well and production data into PETRA projects For the first time raster logs from IHS AccuLogs are available in PETRA for use with digital log data Download a trial version at ihs.com/energy/petra Spend more time making decisions and less time managing data. ©2007 IHS Inc. All rights reserved. For more information visit: energy.ihs.com/petra I_dY['/(-$$$ EXECUTIVE COMMENT A message from the Communications Director, Peggy Hodgkins PETRA® connects to In the fall of 2007, the industry’s most I was asked to join the CSPG Executive popular data source as Communications CSPG Director. EXECUTIVE Ashton Embry, who had been in this series that cover many of the other subjects position for seven years, was stepping down that our members will be exposed to in PETRAprovides geoscientists and engineers the analysis tools PRESIDENT and I saw an opportunity to help the their work environments. Lisa Griffith • Griffith Geoconsulting Inc. needed for today’s exploration and exploitation challenges Society achieve one of its important goals. [email protected] Tel: (403) 669-7494 A key underpinning of the Society is the With this in mind, let me describe the dissemination of high quality, relevant, useful, Communications objectives for 2008. IHS Enerdeq Desktop and IHS AccuMap directly export well VICE PRESIDENT and important information to its members. Graeme Bloy • West Energy Ltd. and production data into PETRA projects As the new Communications Director, it The Reservoir is the CSPG’s primary vehicle [email protected] Tel: (403) 716-3468 is my mandate to make sure that members to inform, entertain, and educate our have quick access to any and all information members. We would like to expand its PAST PRESIDENT For the first time raster logs from IHS AccuLogs are available they need to do their jobs. scope so that it helps prepare members for Colin Yeo • EnCana Corporation the reality of prospecting in a mature basin. in PETRA for use with digital log data [email protected] Tel: (403) 645-7724 Communications within the CSPG can be This will be accomplished through a series broken down into three core areas of of articles that span the range of disciplines FINANCE DIRECTOR focus: the Bulletin, the Reservoir, and the necessary to be a successful petroleum James Donnelly • ConocoPhillips Canada CSPG website. It is the goal of the CSPG geologist. Economics, joint interest and Download a trial version at ihs.com/energy/petra [email protected] Tel: (403) 260-8000 executive committee, and namely me, your land negotiating, drilling and completions, Communications Director, to continually production and facility engineering, and ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR evaluate and improve these services to make reserve assessments are all part of the David Garner • Chevron Canada Resources them vital to you, our members. We want world we work in. [email protected] Tel: (403) 234-5875 to know how we can improve the Reservoir so that you will want to hang on to copies As a geologist, it is not necessary to be an PROGRAM DIRECTOR rather than tossing them in the recycle expert in any of these fields, but the more Randy Rice • Suncor Energy Inc. bin. We want to know how you like your we know about each, the better we are at Spend more time [email protected] Tel: (403) 205-6723 publications delivered to you. We want to our jobs as we interact with other experts. making decisions know how the website can better work for My plan is to lay out a three-year storyboard SERVICE DIRECTOR and less time you and to know what should be included of topics and recruit expert individuals or Jen Vezina • Devon Canada Corporation in it. I need to make sure that you have organizations that will contribute material managing data. [email protected] Tel: (403) 232-5079 an efficient way to access the information for each topic. The idea is to have a series you need to work productively in your of articles on each topic that will span ASSISTANT SERVICE DIRECTOR interdisciplinary team. several issues of the Reservoir. Look back Ayaz Gulamhussein • NuVista Energy Ltd. at the series Simplifying Seismic, written by [email protected] Tel: (403) 538-8510 Last year, a key communications strategy Dr. Easton Wren during 2005, as an example was to use the Reservoir as a vehicle of what we are trying to achieve.
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