Stone's Notes

This conversation with Greg Baniak is about dual porosity and dual permeability due to ichnology, based on his study titled "Reservoir characterization of burrow-associated dolomites in the Upper Devonian Wabamun Group, Pine Creek gas field, central Alberta, Canada" by Greg Baniak, Murray Gingras, and George Pemberton.

In this study the dolomitization of burrows in a limestone matrix increase the reservoir quality, as shown by spot permeametry work done on cores.  How do you know what your bioturbation intensity is? How do you know the distribution?  How do we know the type of traces we're dealing with?  How can we know if we're actually dealing with a dual porosity dual permeability system?  What kind of reserves are we going to allocate to those intervals?  Are we going to use generic core plugs, or are we going to use bulk permeability sampling to populate our models and come up with gas in place volumes?  There's a lot of different aspects to it that we can start manipulating as geologists and better inform the decisions that need to be made.

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Citation: Greg M. Baniak, Murray K. Gingras, S. George Pemberton,
Reservoir characterization of burrow-associated dolomites in the Upper Devonian Wabamun Group, Pine Creek gas field, central Alberta, Canada. Marine and Petroleum Geology. Volume 48, 2013, Pages 275-292, ISSN 0264-8172, 
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264817213002316)

This conversation with Andre is about the geology of the Glauconitic Sands, based on his study titled "Shoreface to Shallow Shelf and Estuarine Incised-Valley Deposits of the Lower Cretaceous Glauconitic Sandstone in the Jenner Upper Manville E Pool, SE AB" by Andre M. Koladich and R.W.C Arrnott.

Learn about the different facies in the Glauconitic Sands, and what made this pool a prolific producer for ConocoPhillips.  

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Citation: Andre M. Koladich, Bill Arnott.  Shoreface to Shallow Shelf and Estuarine ncised-Valley Deposits of the Lower Cretaceous Glauconitic Sandstone in the Jenner Upper Manville E Pool, SE AB. AAPG Datapages/Search and Discovery Article #90213 CSPG© 2015 CSPG/CSEG/CWLS Convention 2004, Innovation, Collaboration, Exploration: Building to the Future, Calgary, AB, Canada, May 31-June 4, 2004

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This conversation with Jesse is about intertidal flats and channel fill characteristics, based on his study titled "Assessing the Lateral and Vertical Variability of a Channel-fill: A case study from the Palix River, Willipa Bay, Washington" by Jesse Schoengut and Murray Gingras.

How do you tell a point bar from a channel fill?  What are the facies in a channel fill?  How big are they?  Where do you drill and explore in channels?  How do you use eta cross stratification and epsilon cross stratification terminology?

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Citation: Schoengut, Jesse.  Gingras, Murray.  Assessing the Lateral and Vertical Variability of a Channel-fill: A case study from the Palix River, Willipa Bay, Washington.  Unpublished.