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Laurentian Basin
• The basin is a hybrid Mesozoic basin developed between the
Scotian shelf and slope and the Newfoundland Transfer Zone
(NTZ); during Late Triassic - Middle Jurassic the Laurentian
Basin had affinity with the Scotian Basin
• Large Paleozoic extensional and transtensional structures are
mapped in the northern part of the basin. In the south large
Mesozoic structural and stratigraphic features are observed
• In the early eighties, several Exploration Permits were held which
stretched the unsettled international boundaries of Canada and
France and provincial boundaries of Newfoundland and Labrador
and Nova Scotia, by Gulf, Mobil, Texaco and Imperial Oil
• The Bandol #1 well was drilled in 2001 on a shelf location and in
French territory by Murphy et al.; while it was rumoured to have
found good Mesozoic reservoir, the well remains confidential until
2011. This is the only existing well in a 60,000 km 2 area
Enachescu, NL DNR 2009