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Reservoirs
Reservoirs rocks in the Jeanne d’Arc d
Basin are predominantly
high porosity-high permeability sandstone of Late Jurassic to late-
Early Cretaceous age. More than 98% of the discovered
petroleum resides in these reservoir rock units.
•Stacked sandstones intervals within the Jeanne d’Arc, d
Hibernia, Catalina
and Avalon/Ben Nevis formations are proven quality reservoirs. Most M
of
these reservoirs are alluvial or deltaic
•Individual wells have tested in excess of 50,000 bopd from the Hibernia H
Sandstone at Hibernia, and in excess of 40,000 bopd from the Jeanne d’Arc d
Sandstone at Terra Nova
•Excellent reservoirs are found in Late Jurassic Voyager and Late Cretaceous
Dawson Canyon formations (Otter Bay and Fox Harbour members) and the
Paleocene Avondale and South Mara members of the Banquereau
Formation, but to date only a couple of smaller pools have been encountered
at these levels
•Early Tertiary sequence has a real and effectively untested potential for
large oil and gas pools (especially in deep water)
Enachescu, NL DNR 2009