It was -30C as I clicked on the “Submit for Review” button for what I thought would be the last Petro Ninja – Enlighten Geoscience Well of the Week for 2022. I was now ready to focus on Christmas preparations. And my mind went back to the one time I had well call on a very cold Christmas Day. We were drilling a horizontal in the Glenburn Unit in North Dakota. While it seemed hard to pull myself away from family time to take the phone call, I could tell that it was even har

This is the time of year to wrap up a lot of packages and tie them up with a bow. That includes Christmas gifts and this Petro Ninja – Enlighten Geoscience Well of the Week series looking at .Manitoba. Previous articles looked at the first oil well in the province, more recent discoveries and where the furthest east oil well lay in comparison to the rest of the WCSB. Now to complete the package by looking at one more, seemingly insignificant, well. The core from the 100/11-

Earlier in this Petro Ninja – Enlighten Geoscience Well of the Week series on the petroleum geology of Manitoba we learned that the oil industry made its initial Manitoba discovery soon after Leduc No. 1. Exploration success continued into this millennium at a stratigraphic level just slightly older than Manitoba’s overwhelmingly Mississippian aged production. What else can we discover about this somewhat neglected portion of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin? There is

Please allow me a bit of a diversion before we dive into this Petro Ninja – Enlighten Geoscience Well of the Week. The Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists is holding its Annual General Meeting on Thursday December 8, 2022. This meeting is particularly important due to a request for the members to vote on a Special Resolution to change the CSPG’s name to the Canadian Energy Geoscience Association. After almost five decades of existence, the Alberta Society of Petroleum