Petroleum Exploration Opportunities in Jeanne d'Arc Basin , Call for ...
Petroleum Exploration Opportunities in Jeanne d'Arc Basin , Call for ...
Petroleum Exploration Opportunities in Jeanne d'Arc Basin , Call for ...
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<strong>Petroleum</strong> Geology<br />
• <strong>Jeanne</strong> d’Arc d<br />
Bas<strong>in</strong> is a hydrocarbon prolific bas<strong>in</strong> that conta<strong>in</strong>s<br />
almost exclusively all the oil volumes discovered offshore<br />
Newfoundland<br />
• The bas<strong>in</strong>’s s <strong>in</strong>fill conta<strong>in</strong>s structured synrift rock successions<br />
(<strong>in</strong>cludes evaporites, carbonates and coarse and f<strong>in</strong>e clastics)<br />
rang<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> age from Late Triassic to late Early - Cretaceous<br />
(Extensional Stage sedimentary sequence)<br />
• Oil prone source rocks are present <strong>in</strong> Late Jurassic (<strong>Call</strong>ovian(<br />
<strong>Call</strong>ovian,<br />
Ox<strong>for</strong>dian and especially Kimmeridgian); the potential <strong>for</strong> other<br />
source rocks is recognized with<strong>in</strong> the Early and Late Cretaceous<br />
and Early Tertiary<br />
• The early sedimentary fill conta<strong>in</strong>s the Argo Salt that later<br />
became mobile and created salt <strong>in</strong>duced structures <strong>in</strong> the<br />
overly<strong>in</strong>g sediments (e.g. White Rose Diapir, , Amethyst Ridge)<br />
(Enachescu et al., 2000)<br />
• Post rift sedimentary sequence is represented by parallel, slightly<br />
de<strong>for</strong>med sedimentary layers (ma<strong>in</strong>ly f<strong>in</strong>e clastics and th<strong>in</strong> chalk<br />
and carbonates)<br />
Enachescu&Foote/NLDNR 2009
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