Alberta Geological Survey

Gas Production from the Viking

Gas production from the Vikmg is widespread and extensive in southern, central and western Alberta, northeast B.C. and western Saskatchewan. The B.C. fields occur in the Peace River Block and immediately to the south. There is no Viking gas production in northern Alberta or B.C. or in central or eastern Saskatchewan.

Included are fields producing from the Viking, Bow Island, Basal Colorado, Peace River Group, Paddy and Cadotte.

There are 75 Viking gas fields with Initial Established Marketable Gas Reserves of over 1000 x 10⁶m³ (35 BCF), with 69 in Alberta, 4 in Saskatchewan and 2 in B.C. The ten largest Viking gas fields, listed in order of Initial Established Marketable gas reserves, are shown in Table 1. Cumulative production data for Alberta and British Columbia are updated to the end of 1990 and for Saskatchewan to the end of 1989.

Table 1 - Ten Largest Viking Gas Fields (in units of 10⁶m³)

Initial Established

No.	Field	Formation	No. of Pools	Marketable Reserves	In-place Volume	Cumulative Production	Discovery Year
1	Provost	Viking	87	39,206	56,732	26,444	1946
2	Viking-Kinsella	Viking	13	29,101	35,308	18,627	1914
3	Cessford	Bsl Colo	82	22,245	27,416	20,258	1949
4	Westlock	Viking	25	12,245	14,810	10,658	1947
5	Bindloss	Viking	14	9,949	11,275	8,161	1952
6	Fort Saskatchewan	Viking	5	7,737	9,183	7,538	1951
7	Countess	BslCol/Bowls	50	6,855	9,000	5,570	1951
8	Sinclair	Paddy	15	5,961	7,675	4,631	1956
9	Coleville-Smiley	Viking	1	5,693	7,054	5,144	1951
10	Beaverhill Lake	Viking	22	4,951	6,412	4,203	1948

In-Place Pool Size Class	No. of Pools	Recoverable Reserves	Cumulative Production
1.0 to 10	705	2,764	444
10 to 100	2051	42,580	6,613
100 to 1000	460	91,441	35,037
1000 to 10000	62	95,324	53,238
over 10000	2	45,823	8,048
Total	3280	277,933 x 106m3	103,380 x 106m3