Petroleum geology of the Cretaceous Mannville Group, Western Canada

Abstract

With more than a trillion barrels of oil and many trillions of cubic feet of gas, the Mannville Group contains more hydrocarbons in the Western Canadian Basin than all other reservoirs combined. Memoir 18 contains 20 selected papers covering all aspects of the petroleum geology of the Mannville Group. Topics covered include: the latest advances in sequence stratigraphy, facies and incised valley play; regional play-defining mapping of Alberta and Saskatchewan; pool studies of the Glauconitic incised valley play; geochemistry and facies of the Sotracode intervals; reservoir mapping of the Glauconitic and Ostracode interval in Alberta and Saskatchewan; Mannville hydrogeology: migration and flow units; diagenesis and reservoir quality; Mannville coal and coalbed methane; and heavy oil characterization and application.