− | [[file:predicting-reservoir-system-quality-and-performance_fig9-96.png|300px|thumb|{{figure number|1}}Location of Weyburn field. Copyright: Coalson et al.;<ref>Coalson, E. B., S. M. Goolsby, and M. H. Franklin, 1994, Subtle seals and fluid-flow barriers in carbonate rocks, in J. C. Dolson, M. L. Hendricks, and W. A. Wescott, eds., Unconformity Related Hydrocarbons in Sedimentary Sequences: RMAG Guidebook for Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Clastic and Carbonate Sediments, p. 45–58.</ref> courtesy RMAG.]]
| + | Weyburn field, in the Williston basin of Saskatchewan, produces oil from the Midale Member of the Mississippian Mission Canyon Formation.<ref name=ch09r9>Chetin, A. K., and W. W. Fitkin, 1959, Geology of the Weyburn field, Saskatchewan: Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin, December, p. 751–761.</ref> |
− | This raises the possibility that either a stratigraphic change;<ref name=ch09r70>Winland, H. D., 1972, Oil accumulation in response to pore size changes, Weyburn field, Saskatchewan: Amoco Production Company Report F72-G-25, 20 p. (unpublished).</ref><ref name=ch09r71>Winland, H. D., 1976, Evaluation of gas slippage and pore aperture size in carbonate and sandstone reservoirs: Amoco Production Company Report F76-G-5, 25 p. (unpublished).</ref> Wegelin, 1986; <ref name=ch09r33>Kent, D. M., Haidl, F. M., MacEachern, J. A., 1988, Mississippian oil fields in the northern Williston Basin, in Goolsby, S., M., Longman, M., W., eds., Occurrence and Petrophysical Properties of Carbonate Reservoirs in the Rocky Mountain Region: RMAG Symposium, p. 193–210.</ref> or [[hydrodynamics]]<ref name=ch09r43>Petroleum Research Corporation, 1961, Hydrodynamic exploration for unconformity traps: Research Report A-11, 47 p. (unpublished report, available at Colorado School of Mines Library, Golden, CO).</ref><ref name=ch09r13>Dahlberg, E., C., 1982, Applied [[Hydrodynamics]] in Petroleum Exploration: New York, Springer Verlag, 161 p.</ref><ref name=ch09r24>Hannon, N., 1987, Subsurface water flow patterns in the Canadian sector of the Williston Basin: RMAG 1987 Symposium Guidebook, p. 313–321.</ref> or perhaps both provide the updip, transverse (lateral) seal. From producing wells at Weyburn and nearby Steelman, the oil column height appears to be [[length::600 ft]] [[depth::(183 m]]). This raises the next question: Could the Midale marly beds provide a seal for a 600-ft oil column, or must hydrodynamics be present to augment the seal quality of the Midale marly beds? | + | This raises the possibility that either a stratigraphic change;<ref name=ch09r70>Winland, H. D., 1972, Oil accumulation in response to pore size changes, Weyburn field, Saskatchewan: Amoco Production Company Report F72-G-25, 20 p.</ref><ref name=ch09r71>Winland, H. D., 1976, Evaluation of gas slippage and pore aperture size in carbonate and sandstone reservoirs: Amoco Production Company Report F76-G-5, 25 p.</ref><ref>Wegelin, A., 1984, Geology and reservoir properties of the Weyburn field, southeastern Saskatchewan, ''in'' J. A. Lorsong and M. A. Wilson, eds., Oil and Gas in Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Geological Society Special Publication 7, p.71-82.</ref><ref name=ch09r33>Kent, D. M., F. M. Haidl, and J. A. MacEachern, 1988, Mississippian oil fields in the northern Williston Basin, ''in'' S. M. Goolsby, and M. W. Longman, eds., Occurrence and Petrophysical Properties of Carbonate Reservoirs in the Rocky Mountain Region: RMAG Symposium, p. 193–210.</ref> or [[hydrodynamics]]<ref name=ch09r43>Petroleum Research Corporation, 1961, Hydrodynamic exploration for unconformity traps: Research Report A-11, 47 p.</ref><ref name=ch09r13>Dahlberg, E. C., 1982, Applied hydrodynamics in petroleum exploration: New York, Springer Verlag, 161 p.</ref><ref name=ch09r24>Hannon, N., 1987, Subsurface water flow patterns in the Canadian sector of the Williston Basin: RMAG 1987 Symposium Guidebook, p. 313–321.</ref> or perhaps both provide the updip, transverse (lateral) seal. From producing wells at Weyburn and nearby Steelman, the oil column height appears to be 600 ft (183 m). This raises the next question: Could the Midale marly beds provide a seal for a 600-ft oil column, or must hydrodynamics be present to augment the seal quality of the Midale marly beds? |