This project was commissioned to address a lack of coordinated public information about geological formations suitable for long-term CO2 storage in...
Modelled after our popular CDL Digest wall maps, this free download covers resource plays in western Canada including drilling activity for 2023.
This Crown Land Map shows operators believed to be exploring for brine-hosted lithium across the WCSB.
This Crown Land Map shows helium rights holders across the WCSB. In Saskatchewan, determining helium rights is straightforward as operators acquire...
The CCS, EOR, Geothermal and Hydrogen Projects Summary Map is part of the Activity Summary Map Series. It shows CCS, EOR, Geothermal and Hydrogen...
This study aims to deliver a preliminary inventory dataset of lithium and other dissolved-metal brine data in northeastern BC...
Modelled after our popular CDL Digest boardroom maps, this free download covers resource plays in western Canada including drilling activity for 2022.
Two Alberta-based maps highlighting CCS evaluation permit target zones including CO2 emitters.
The brine-hosted lithium metallic and industrial mineral Crown majority rights map shows operators believed to be exploring for brine-hosted lithiu...
The helium Crown majority rights map shows helium rights holders across the WCSB. In Saskatchewan, determining helium rights is straightforward as...
The CCS, EOR, Geothermal and Hydrogen Projects Summary Map is part of the Activity Summary Map Series. It shows CCS, EOR, Geothermal and Hydrogen...
Modelled after our popular CDL Digest boardroom maps, this free download covers resource plays in western Canada including 2022 Q1 drilling activity.
Modelled after our popular CDL Digest boardroom maps, this free download covers resource plays in western Canada including 2021 drilling activity.
Modelled after our popular CDL Digest boardroom maps, this free download covers resource plays in western Canada...
The profitability of Viking oil plays is compared using the Play Metrics module in Canadian Discovery’s Catalyst Play Evaluation Platform...
How do the plays in Western Canada stack up against one another? Using the Play Metrics module in Canadian Discovery’s Catalyst Play Evaluation...
This free poster download illustrates Canadian Discovery's Quantitative Seismic Interpretation workflow.
This paper examines the application of a quantitative interpretation workflow using an example from a Canadian oil sands project.
This paper describes the results of the customized workflow that examines if facies variations and fluid types can be distinguished using seismic...
This presentation integrates all available data to produce a detailed volume of deterministically derived reservoir, non-reservoir and fluid...
This paper describes the process that integrates all available data to produce a detailed volume of deterministically derived reservoir...
An examinations of the key aspects and concerns in the SAGD development of the Grand Rapids bitumen resource.
A comparison of AVO, inversion and final reservoir characterization products.
This presentation will address the intricate process of identifying and securing water resources, focusing on some of the complexities specific to...
A summary of Montney operations (drilling/production/completions) over the past year, along with an overview of current issues with H2S production...
This presentation assesses the magnitude and distance of elevated pressure that an injection site can impose on neighbouring projects resulting in...
This presentation will follow the history of the Montney from the development of conventional sandstone and dolostone reservoirs in the 1960s, 70s...
The Basal Cambrian Sand has multiple Hubs being evaluated with Sequestration Lease Areas (SLAs) that will share common boarders. Projects will be...
The Basal Cambrian Sand has multiple Hubs being evaluated with Sequestration Lease Areas (SLAs) that will share common boarders...
The NEBC Lithium Formation Water Database joint study, conducted by Canadian Discovery Ltd. and Matrix Solutions Inc. for Geoscience BC, strives to...
In central Alberta, the Devonian-aged Cooking Lake Formation serves as both a potential seal/baffle to the Leduc Formation and a component of the...
This presentation will be a summary of the top-producing wells drilled in the WCSB in 2023-2024 from three notable formations: the Duvernay, Charli...
The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) has been an area of oil and gas exploration and development since the early 20th century. It has...
This presentation is an overview of the top-producing wells drilled in several key formations in the WCSB in 2022-2023...
The atlas has collated available public information and studies, while CDL provided geological support to fill in any gaps between previously...
This presentation will start with a high level overview of Quest and head west to discuss a workflow to explore other zones within the Cambrian...
An outline of changes and challenges to Montney development since its origins as a conventional shoreface sandstone play in the 1960s to...
The havoc wreaked by COVID-19 continued through 2021, but signs of recovery became stronger as the year went on. Vaccines were distributed, people...
This talk will focus on subsurface scoping workflow of the proposed CCUS Hub in the Greater Calgary Area.
The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) has been an oil and gas exploration and development area since the early 20th century and has generated...
A synopsis of drilling, completion, and land sale activity across the WCSB in 2020 and the first half of 2021.
The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the topic of hydrodynamics and discuss its role in helping to predict areas with a higher risk of...
The objective of this analysis is to link regional fluid dynamics trends to liquids production in the BC Montney from Septimus to Dawson.
The presentation provides an overview of the importance of lithium and helium, specifically why these elements will have an increasing role to play...
Since unconventional development via horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing began in the Montney Formation around 2005, drilling has
The Marten Hills-Nipisi Clearwater heavy oil play has seen rapid growth in production over the last three years...
This presentation discusses the shift in methodologies in the interpretation of “fluid dynamics” data when transitioning from regional prospecting and
In this presentation, we use several case studies from the Montney Formation to exemplify how the application of hydrodynamics has evolved as...
This analysis highlights the trends and geological zones that industry pursued in 2018...
CDL’s updated Frac Sand Forecast 2018-2022 is a ground-up analysis of historical frac sand usage and forecast of future trends. Each of the major...
This presentation provides a geoscientific and well completions overview of 2017 activity, production results and trends.
As part of a panel discussion on “What will be Unconventional Next?” this presentation explores the rise of unconventional and the impact of...
This analysis looks back at 2016 to highlight the trends and zones that the industry is pursuing.
This talk briefly outlines the methodology behind developing the type curves and forecasting the EURs to map both the EURs and estimated remaining...
This presentation outlines a robust forecasting methodology based on play-based type curves and look at insights from EURs in several key resource...
Crown land sale activity, completions metrics and production metrics for 2014 (pre-price collapse) and 2016 (still in the collapse) will be compared..
Data analyzed from the Drilling Database shows some trends in recently drilled Montney wells. Current practices and avenues for optimization are...
This presentation provides a geoscientific and well completions overview of recent resource play activity, results and trends...
This presentation examines the optimal completion techniques that maximize estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) and minimize half cycle...
This presentation compares Dunvegan resource oil and gas to other Deep Basin resource plays, in addition to providing a geological overview of...
Using multivariate statistical analysis, Canadian Discovery examined the optimal completion techniques that maximize Estimated Ultimate Recovery...
A geoscientific and well completions overview of recent resource play activity, results and trends...
This presentation is a geoscientific and well completions overview of recent activity, results and trends in Western Canada...
This is a review of regional variances of pressure, temperature and liquids content within the Montney...
This three-part presentation draws from recent Canadian Discovery technical work and ongoing exploratory studies, utilizing real world examples...
This Digest presentation reviews recent activity and results for Western Canada, with an emphasis on hot and emerging plays, operators and technology.
This Digest/Spark Lunch & Learn presentation reviewed recent activity and results for Western Canada, with an emphasis on hot and emerging plays...
This presentation highlights how geomechanical insights can be used to optimize Duvernay resource play development...
A Well Completions & Frac Database Lunch & Learn presentation focused on the Montney highlighting recent completions trends.
This presentation reviews geomechanics and reservoir characterization of shale and carbonates in Canada.
A presentation on how Quantitative Interpretation (QI) has changed the way we interpret seismic data.
A presentation on the imperative of fully integrating geology, geomechanics and quantitative seismic interpretation on the path from exploration...
Resource plays covered include the Exshaw-Bakken, Cardium, Montney and Duvernay.
Facies, Environments, Diagenesis, Sequence Stratigraphy and an Oil Migration Model for the Bakken Petroleum System of the Williston Basin
This presentation covers how resource plays have created a paradigm shift in how exploration and production companies are drilling and completing...
A presentation on emerging resource plays in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.
A presentation on benchmarking resource plays in Western Canada - specifically the Montney and Cardium.
This presentation investigates drilling and completions techniques being used by E&P companies for oil and gas wells
This presentation covers initial observations on the relationship of Bakken stress measurements to well production in the Viewfield Area...
This statistical review of drilling activity from 2003 to present summarizes recent discoveries to highlight trends.
An overview of recent oil exploration activity in Western Canada.
Canadian Discovery is highlighted for its work and innovation in unconventional resource plays on Profiles with Terry Bradshaw.
