Geology of Gulf Canada's Pelican oil sands pilot project, Alberta Canada

Conference · Sat May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982 · Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5753153

Sharpe, R J

Gulf Canada Resources Incorporated is operating an experimental oil sands pilot project (Pelican Lake project) in the Wabasca deposit in NE Alberta intended to recover bitumen by steam stimulation followed by combustion. The geology of the pilot site is being studied actively through an extensive logging and coring program aimed at defining the detailed vertical and lateral variability of the Wabiskaw A sand reservoir, particularly with a view to defining such parameters as porosity, permeability, oil saturation, and isopach, net pay, and structure. The Wabiskaw A sand at the pilot site is a thin, glauconitic, coarsening-upward sheet sand interpreted as part of an offshore (shelf) bar system. The major part of the sand body at the pilot site consists of a northeast-southwest trending bar. This grades into an interbar facies at the southeast corner where the sand thickness and net pay decrease and the clay content of the reservoir increases.

• OSTI ID: 5753153
• Report Number(s): CONF-8206143-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States) Journal Volume: 66:5
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
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OIL SATURATION
OXIDATION
PERMEABILITY
POROSITY
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SATURATION
STEAM INJECTION
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
THICKNESS
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