Gas reservoir potential of the Lower Ordovician Beekmantown Group, Quebec Lowlands, Canada: Reply
- Talisman Energy Inc., Alberta (Canada)
We thank Friedman (1996) for his useful discussion comparing Beekmantown rocks from New York state with the Beekmantown rocks in Quebec. The objective of our paper (Dykstra and Longman, 1995) was to discuss the gas reservoir potential of the Beekmantown Group in Quebec and compare it to areas of analogous production, namely the Arbuckle reservoir in the Wilburton field in Oklahoma. In 1995, when our paper was published, we were unaware of any significant commercial gas production from the Beekmantown Group in New York state. Figure 1 is a map of North America during Early Ordovician time, showing the location of the paleoshoreline and the paleoequator. The Beekmantown Group, which was deposited along this coastal and shallow-marine complex on the eastern margin of the North America craton, could contain potential reservoir rocks almost anywhere along this trend. As explained in our paper, known hydrocarbon discoveries and production come from several locations along the Lower Ordovician coastal complex. This includes the Ellenburger and Arbuckle of the United States, and the Beekmantown and St. Georges groups of Canada (Figure 1). In conclusion we would like to reiterate, as Friedman pointed out, that dolomites of the Beekmantown provide an important exploration target in both the autochthon and the overlying thrust sheets of the Canadian and US Appalachians.
- OSTI ID:
- 405383
- Journal Information:
- AAPG Bulletin, Vol. 80, Issue 10; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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