Petroleum Exploration Opportunities in Jeanne d'Arc Basin , Call for ...

Prospects and Leads
• Area’s s main hydrocarbon play is structural; it involves porous Ben
Nevis/Avalon sandstones trapped within multi-sided fault bounded
blocks
• Several fault dependent closures can be mapped within the Parcel;
closures are capable of each holding 25 to 50 mmbbls
oil
recoverable depending on trap size and thickness of pay zone
• Multi-pay play is also possible in the area
• Stratigraphic trapping of Ben Nevis sands may also occur within the
parcel
• Source rocks are found at expulsion depths of 3800-5800 beneath
the individual rotated blocks and within the downdip SW depression
• Seismic amplitude variations are seen in the late Early Cretaceous,
Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary sequences. The variation of
seismic amplitude within some of the markers, amplitude anomalies
around faults and gas chimneys and curtains may indicate flow of
hydrothermal solutions
Enachescu, NL DNR 2009