Fort Saskatchewan Gas Field, Alberta

The Fort Saskatchewan gas field, discovered in 1951 in central Alberta 15 mi northeast of Edmonton, has a total of 31 gas wells which had yielded 87,097,346 Mcf of sweet nonassociated gas as of January 1, 1966. Production is from the Viking Formation of Early Cretaceous age. A stratigraphic trap is formed by the updip pinchout of the productive sandstone; downdip the sandstone body is water-saturated, and it is terminated laterally by shale re-entrants along strike.