1.Introduction The Weyburn oil field occurs within a larger trend of similar oil accumulations in Mississippian-aged carbonates.The history of discovery of these oil accumulations resulted in the fields being given se...1.Introduction The Weyburn oil field occurs within a larger trend of similar oil accumulations in Mississippian-aged carbonates.The history of discovery of these oil accumulations resulted in the fields being given several different names.The Weyburn field and the immediately-adjacent Midale field are effectively part of a larger oil pool with OOIP(original oil in place)reserves of over 2 billion barrels.This is certainly a large conventional oil pool for Canada even if not large by world standards.These pools are found in truncated stratigraphic traps and occur at about 1450e1550 m depth making them ideal for CO_(2) storage[1].展开更多
文摘1.Introduction The Weyburn oil field occurs within a larger trend of similar oil accumulations in Mississippian-aged carbonates.The history of discovery of these oil accumulations resulted in the fields being given several different names.The Weyburn field and the immediately-adjacent Midale field are effectively part of a larger oil pool with OOIP(original oil in place)reserves of over 2 billion barrels.This is certainly a large conventional oil pool for Canada even if not large by world standards.These pools are found in truncated stratigraphic traps and occur at about 1450e1550 m depth making them ideal for CO_(2) storage[1].