Exploration
2022 | Qi Chen, Alina Shchepetkina, Scott Melnyk, Murray K. Gingras
The Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation contains crude bitumen reserves of the Athabasca Oilsands that formed by channel amalgamation and lateral migration of fluvio-tidal point bars. These point bars are widely accepted as incised valley fills during episodic base-level rises in tidally influenced estuary (Mathison, 2004; Hein et al., 2013). Historically, well logs such as gamma-ray and spontaneous potential were used…
2021 | Chenyang Feng, Scott Melnyk, Cole Ross, Keith Shanley, John-Paul Zonneveld, Murray K. Gingras
The reservoir quality of the Lower Triassic (Induan-Olenekian) Montney Formation of the Puskwaskau Field is assessed from two cored intervals. Four lithofacies are identified in the present study: these are defined by their detailed sedimentological characteristics. Lithofacies 1 is composed of interlaminated bituminous very fine-to medium-grained siltstone and dolomitic medium-to coarse-grained siltstone…