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2015

Nitrogen Injection

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Investigating The Feasibility Of Nitrogen Injection In Turner Valley, Igor Koracin Oct 2015

Investigating The Feasibility Of Nitrogen Injection In Turner Valley, Igor Koracin

Graduate Theses & Non-Theses

The Turner Valley gas and oil field was discovered in 1913 and it was one of the main plays that sparked the growth of the petroleum industry in Canada. The Turner Valley formation is a Mississippian reservoir located at a mean depth of 7,546 feet. It is a heavily faulted field, 25 miles in length with an average width of 2 miles and is located 30 miles south-west of Calgary. It is an asymmetric anticlinal structure cut by the y axis with parallel thrust and normal faults.

Due to its early inception and the lack of resource development regulations, Turner …