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Assessing the Potential for Future Reserve Growth in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

By Mahendra K. Verma

This presentation ─ Assessing the Potential for Future Reserve Growth in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin ─ was prepared for a meeting of the Conference Board of Canada in Calgary, Canada, on May 24-25, 2005. The presentation includes a definition of reserve growth, and the reasons for choosing Canada for reserve growth study. The objectives are to evaluate reserve growth at the pool and field levels, develop models for forecasting additional reserves from reserve growth, and determine reserve growth sensitivity to various parameters, such as pool size, oil gravity, and porosity. The presentation also includes a brief description of geology, reserve analysis (change in oil-in-place, oil reserves, gas-in-place, gas reserves, and recovery factors with time), reserve growth models for oil and gas, and a short-term forecast of additional reserves from reserve growth.

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Posted June 2005

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