SUCCESSES IN 1980s BODE WELL FOR W. CANADA SEARCH

P.J. Lee, Paul R. Price Geological Survey of Canada Calgary The senior author made a prediction in 1980 of how much initial established recoverable crude oil (light, medium, and heavy) and initial established marketable natural gas would be discovered in the Western Canada sedimentary basin (WCSB) in the 1980s. The data used for that prediction included the annual cumulative footage drilled in meters and the cumulative volumes of crude oil and marketable gas discovered annually as reported in