Marlowe Steen River Muskeg
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
14 The Old Fort Point Formation: Redefinition and formal subdivision of a distinctive stratigraphic marker in the Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup, southern Canadian Cordillera 24 Go Take A Hike RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO: CSPG – 110, 333 - 5 Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 3B6 Addressee Additional Delivery Information Street Address Postal Box Number and Station Information Municipality, Province/Territory Postal Code $10.00 OCOTBER 2015 VOLUME 42, ISSUE 09 Canadian Publication Mail Contract – 40070050 OCTOBER 2015 – VOLUME 42, ISSUE 09 ARTICLES The Old Fort Point Formation: Redefinition and formal subdivision of a distinctive stratigraphic marker CSPG OFFICE in the Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup, southern Canadian Cordillera .... 14 #110, 333 – 5th Avenue SW Go Take A Hike .......................................................................................................................... 24 Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 3B6 Tel: 403-264-5610 Honorary Member - Kathryn (Kathy) Scales ...................................................................... 30 Web: www.cspg.org Please visit our website for all tickets sales and event/course registrations Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm The CSPG Office is Closed the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month. DEPARTMENTS OFFICE CONTACTS Message from the Board ............................................................................................................ 5 Membership Inquiries Tel: 403-264-5610 Email: [email protected] Technical Luncheons ................................................................................................................... 8 Technical/Educational Events: Biljana Popovic Tel: 403-513-1225 Email: [email protected] Division Talks .............................................................................................................................. 10 Advertising Inquiries: Kristy Casebeer Tel: 403-513-1233 Email: [email protected] Sponsorship Opportunities: Lis Bjeld Rock Shop .................................................................................................................................. 29 Tel: 403-513-1235 Email: [email protected] Conference Inquiries: Candace Jones Correction from our September 2015 Tel: 403-513-1227 Email: [email protected] CSPG Foundation: Kasandra Amaro Issue. The September 29th Technical Tel: 403-513-1234 Email: [email protected] Luncheon speaker was Norka Marcano Accounting Inquiries: Eric Tang Tel: 403-513-1232 Email: [email protected] from Executive Director: Lis Bjeld Schlumberger Reservoir Laboratories. Tel: 403-513-1235, Email: [email protected] EDITORS/AUTHORS Please submit RESERVOIR articles to the CSPG office. Submission deadline is the 23rd day of the month, two months prior to issue date. (e.g., January 23 for the March issue). To publish an article, the CSPG requires digital copies of the document. Text should be in Microsoft Word format and illustrations should be in TIFF format at 300 dpi., at final size. CSPG COORDINATING EDITOR Kristy Casebeer, Programs Coordinator, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Tel: 403-513-1233, [email protected] 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 and August. The purpose of the RESERVOIR is to publicize the Society’s many activities and to promote the geosciences. We look for both technical and non-technical material to publish. The contents of this publication may not be reproduced either in part or in full without the consent of the publisher. Additional copies of the RESERVOIR are available at the CSPG office. No official endorsement or sponsorship by the CSPG is implied for any advertisement, insert, or article that appears in the Reservoir unless otherwise noted. All submitted materials are reviewed by the editor. We reserve the right to edit all submissions, including letters to the Editor. Submissions must include your name, address, and membership number (if applicable).The material contained in this publication is intended for informational use only. While reasonable care has been taken, authors and the CSPG make no guarantees that any of the equations, schematics, or devices discussed will perform as expected or that they will give the desired results. Some information contained herein may be inaccurate or may vary from standard measurements. The CSPG expressly disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions, or conduct of any third-party user of information contained in this publication. Under no circumstances shall the CSPG and its officers, directors, employees, and agents be liable for any injury, loss, damage, or FRONT COVER expense arising in any manner whatsoever from the acts, omissions, or conduct of any third-party user. Schooner Gulch State Beach in Mendocino County. Spherical concretions form Printed by McAra Printing, Calgary, Alberta. rows of ‘bowling balls’ visible at low tide. Caused by mineral cementation around a nucleation site (typically a fragment of organic material), these hardened sandstone concretions are exposed as the softer sandstones of the Galloway Formation are eroded. As the cliffs are worn back by the waves, concretions are left behind on the wave cut platform. Photo by: Monika Silvia Enachescu RESERVOIR ISSUE 09 • OCTOBER 2015 3 Knowledge has TO BE improved, CHALLENGED, AND INCREASED constantly, OR IT vanishes. Peter Drucker Power your upstream decision-making with customer-driven data, integrated software and services from geoLOGIC. At geoLOGIC, we help turn raw data into actionable knowledge. That’s a powerful tool to leverage all your decision making, whether it’s at head geoSCOUT | gDC office or out in the field. From comprehensive oil and gas data to mapping Upstream knowledge solutions and analysis, we’ve got you covered. Get all the knowledge you need, all in one place with geoLOGIC. For more on our full suite of decision support tools, visit geoLOGIC.com MOSAIC COMMUNICATIONS - 403-230-4224 EXT 107 JOB: GEO006 APPROVED BY: DATE: 06/05/2015 CLIENT: FILE NAME: GEO006 CSPG 8.375x10.875-Drucker-05June2015-EO-FO ACCT MGR: FILE SIZE: 8.375x10.875 PROD MGR: FILE AT: 100% ART DR: Message from the Board A message from Jen Russel-Houston, Director CSPG BOARD PRESIDENT Tony Cadrin [email protected] Tel: 403.303.3493 BYOE. PRESIDENT ELECT Bring your own Engineer Greg Lynch • Shell Canada Ltd [email protected] Tel: 403.384.7704 What is in a name? When I describe progress of the geologic evaluation, PAST PRESIDENT a rock as “vuggy, crackle-fractured and the concerns of the engineer Dale Leckie dolomudstone” my geoscience will ensure that the work you are [email protected] colleagues can immediately picture doing as a geologist will be used by that rock. They can imagine the the engineer to optimize reservoir FINANCE DIRECTOR Astrid Arts • Cenovus Energy warm tropical sea that deposited performance. The AAPG Annual [email protected] Tel: 403.766.5862 the lime mud and the diagenetic Convention and Exhibition (ACE) will and geomechanical processes that be hosted in Calgary June 19-22, 2016. FINANCE DIRECTOR ELECT altered the rock to create the vugs As a part of ACE there will be a day Scott Leroux • Long Run Exploration and the fractures. They can picture dedicated to integrated presentations [email protected] Tel: 403.802.3775 the 3-dimensional pore system and that are of interest to both geologists DIRECTOR could even estimate a porosity and and engineers including topics such as Mark Caplan permeability. A rock name means integrated case studies, completion something to us, but to everyone else design, geomechanical stimulation of it is foreign secret language that is tight reservoirs, and reserve estimation. DIRECTOR often a barrier to communication. Hearing the same presentation with Milovan Fustic • Statoil Canada Ltd. your engineering colleague will [email protected] Tel: 403.724.3307 How often does a play or an stimulate some interesting discussion opportunity get missed because the at the coffee break and may reveal new DIRECTOR geoscientist and the engineer struggle insights about your shared reservoir. Michael LaBerge • Channel Energy Inc. to communicate? We spend years [email protected] Tel: 403.301.3739 describing core and seismic volumes Teach your engineering DIRECTOR and present our geologic model to our colleagues the language and start Ryan Lemiski • Nexen Energy ULC team and often miss a critical step. We with the rocks. Some of the best [email protected] Tel: 403.699.4413 neglect to “translate” our work so it breakthroughs I have experienced in can be applied to solve the engineering communicating with my engineering DIRECTOR problems. This translation step is colleagues were when we both looked Robert Mummery • Almandine Resources Inc. [email protected] Tel: 403.651.4917 critical to the successful application at the rocks together; whether we of the geoscience model and the were looking at the core, walking the DIRECTOR CSPG has a few tricks to help you shorelines of a modern depositional Darren Roblin • Kelt Exploration and your engineering colleagues break environment, studying the outcrop [email protected] Tel: 587.233.0784 the language barrier and improve of an ancient analogue, or preferably communication. all three. Following the three-day DIRECTOR ACE the CSPG will host the CSPG Jen Russel-Houston • Osum Oil Sands Corp. Immersion.