Chapter 41 Geology and petroleum potential of the West Greenland–East Canada Province
The US Geological Survey (USGS) assessed the potential for undiscovered oil and gas resources of the West Greenland–East Canada Province as part of the USGS Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal programme. The province lies in the offshore area between western Greenland and eastern Canada and includes Ba...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.3452891.v1 2023-05-15T14:59:25+02:00 Chapter 41 Geology and petroleum potential of the West Greenland–East Canada Province Schenk, Christopher J. 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3452891.v1 https://geolsoc.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Chapter_41_Geology_and_petroleum_potential_of_the_West_Greenland_East_Canada_Province/3452891/1 unknown Geological Society of London https://dx.doi.org/10.1144/m35.41 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3452891 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Geology FOS Earth and related environmental sciences dataset Dataset 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3452891.v1 https://doi.org/10.1144/m35.41 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3452891 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z The US Geological Survey (USGS) assessed the potential for undiscovered oil and gas resources of the West Greenland–East Canada Province as part of the USGS Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal programme. The province lies in the offshore area between western Greenland and eastern Canada and includes Baffin Bay, Davis Strait, Lancaster Sound and Nares Strait west of and including part of Kane Basin. A series of major tectonic events led to the formation of several distinct structural domains that are the geological basis for defining five assessment units (AU) in the province, all of which are within the Mesozoic–Cenozoic Composite Petroleum System. Potential petroleum source rocks include strata of Ordovician, Lower and Upper Cretaceous, and Palaeogene ages. The five AUs defined for this study – the Eurekan Structures AU, NW Greenland Rifted Margin AU, NE Canada Rifted Margin AU, Baffin Bay Basin AU and the Greater Ungava Fault Zone AU – encompass the entire province and were assessed for undiscovered technically recoverable resources. The mean volumes of undiscovered resources for the West Greenland–East Canada Province are 10.7×10 9 barrels of oil, 75×10 12 cubic feet of gas, and 1.7×10 9 barrels of natural gas liquids. For the part of the province that is north of the Arctic Circle, the estimated mean volumes of these undiscovered resources are 7.3×10 9 barrels of oil, 52×10 12 cubic feet of natural gas, and 1.1×10 9 barrels of natural gas liquids. Dataset Arctic Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Davis Strait Greenland Kane Basin Lancaster Sound Nares strait DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Baffin Bay Canada Greenland Kane ENVELOPE(-63.038,-63.038,-73.952,-73.952) Lancaster Sound ENVELOPE(-83.999,-83.999,74.218,74.218) Nares ENVELOPE(158.167,158.167,-81.450,-81.450) |
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The US Geological Survey (USGS) assessed the potential for undiscovered oil and gas resources of the West Greenland–East Canada Province as part of the USGS Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal programme. The province lies in the offshore area between western Greenland and eastern Canada and includes Baffin Bay, Davis Strait, Lancaster Sound and Nares Strait west of and including part of Kane Basin. A series of major tectonic events led to the formation of several distinct structural domains that are the geological basis for defining five assessment units (AU) in the province, all of which are within the Mesozoic–Cenozoic Composite Petroleum System. Potential petroleum source rocks include strata of Ordovician, Lower and Upper Cretaceous, and Palaeogene ages. The five AUs defined for this study – the Eurekan Structures AU, NW Greenland Rifted Margin AU, NE Canada Rifted Margin AU, Baffin Bay Basin AU and the Greater Ungava Fault Zone AU – encompass the entire province and were assessed for undiscovered technically recoverable resources. The mean volumes of undiscovered resources for the West Greenland–East Canada Province are 10.7×10 9 barrels of oil, 75×10 12 cubic feet of gas, and 1.7×10 9 barrels of natural gas liquids. For the part of the province that is north of the Arctic Circle, the estimated mean volumes of these undiscovered resources are 7.3×10 9 barrels of oil, 52×10 12 cubic feet of natural gas, and 1.1×10 9 barrels of natural gas liquids. |
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Chapter 41 Geology and petroleum potential of the West Greenland–East Canada Province |
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Chapter 41 Geology and petroleum potential of the West Greenland–East Canada Province |
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