CARDIUM GARRINGTON RESOURCE OIL Play Description

Northwest
Territories
PLAY: CARDIUM GARRINGTON RESOURCE OIL
E
T125
Play Description: The Upper Cretaceous Cardium comprises a muddy, sandy and conglomeratic clastic wedge that was
deposited in a dominantly shoreface to shallow marine environment along a northwest-southeast-trending shoreline.
Hydrocarbons are produced from several stratigraphic zones within the formation. The conventional trapping mechanism
is stratigraphic transition of porous sandstones or conglomerates into shales. The Cardium resource plays focus more on
the halo of siltier rock surrounding the cleaner and coarser barrier island and shoreface sands. Cardium in the Garrington
area has somewhat higher porosity and slightly better permeability than in the Pine Creek area, but is of significantly
lesser quality compared to the Pembina area.
Mesozoic Defor
Alberta
T100
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Ph
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Ed
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T75
PINE CREEK
British
Columbia
Saskatchewan
NE
T50
PEMBINA
Resource Plays
Cardium Garrington Resource Oil
FERRIER
R1W6
SW
WILLESDEN GREEN
STRACHAN
Cardium Pine Creek Resource Oil
GARRINGTON
Cardium Pembina Resource Oil
Cardium Deep Basin Resource Gas
T25
Structural and Geological Elements
Cardium Depositional Edge*
Leduc Platform and Reefs*
Deep Basin Approximate Limit
Manitoba
Oil Sands Deposits
Garrington Play Area
Fields Mentioned in Text
* (WCSB Atlas, 1994)
Washington
Idaho
R1W5
Montana
T1
R1W4
R1W3
R1W2
North Dakota
R1E1
R1W1