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GEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK PALEOZOIC MESOZOIC CENOZOIC CARBONIFEROUS TR. JURASSIC CRETACEOUS TERTIARY DEV. NEOG PALOEGENE SENONIAN M E L M L E L M OXFORDIAN CALLOVIAN BAJOCIAN BAJOCIAN TOARCIAN PLIENSBACHIAN SINEMURIAN HETTANGIAN RHAETIAN STEPHANIAN WESTPHALIAN NAMURIAN VISEAN TOURNAISIAN FAMENNIAN FRASNIAN GIVETIAN CANYON FM. VERRILL ABENAKI FM. MIC MAC FM. MOHAWK FM. IROQOUIS FM. ARGO FM. EURYDICE FM. ABENAKI FM SHALE IROQUOIS FM. ARGO FM. EURYDICE FM. UNNAMED PICTOU CUMBERLAND GPS. RIVERDALE- CANSO GPS. WINDSOR GP. HORTON GP. BASEMENT COMPLEX SHALE UPPER CARB LR. SHALE ARGO FM. MIC MAC FM. Comparative stratigraphy of Scotian Shelf, Southern Grand Banks and Northern Grand Banks. CANYON FM. VERRILL MIC MAC FM. SOUTH MARA SOUTH TEMPEST After Northcor Energy Report 1984 & MacLean and Wade, 1990 MISSISAUGA FM. CANYON FM. VERRILL TRANSGRESSIVE REGRESSIVE INTERMEDIATE DRIFTING TRANSGRESSIVE RIFT TECTONIC SEDIMENT STAGES LATE DRIFTING EARLY DRIFTING VALLEY PRE-RIFT Page 16 South Whale Subbasin The South Whale Subbasin was the first to be drilled offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. Fourteen wells were drilled between 1966 and 1974 and one well ( Narwhal F-99) was drilled in 1987. In this first phase of Grand Banks exploration the companies primarily targeted the salt piercement features involving the Lower Jurrassic Argo Salt. It appears, however, that the Argo salt movement may have postdated the migration of hydrocarbons and no discoveries were made. There were several oil and gas shows in the South Whale Subbasin but a source rock has yet to be identified by the limited drilling. However, given that the South Whale Subbasin lies on trend with the Scotian Basin which has a rich gasprone source rock in the Upper Jurassic Verill Canyon Shales, there is a very good chance of similar age source rocks in the deeper parts of the South Whale. It is also possible that the Egret Member, that has sourced the oil and gas discoveries Figure 3.7 of the Jeanne d’Arc Basin may be AGE SCOTIAN SOUTHERN NORTHERN present in this area. Although SHELF GRAND BANKS GRAND BANKS similarities to the Scotian Basin Q PLIOCENE suggests that the area may be gas MIOCENE prone, large basement ridges BANQUEREAU BANQUEREAU BANQUEREAU (observed on seismic data) that run OLIGOCENE FORMATION FORMATION FORMATION parallel to the shelf may have EOCENE provided the restricted marine conditions that favor the PALEOCENE development of oil-prone source MAASTRICHTIAN FOX HARBOUR CAMPANIAN WYANDOT FM. DAWSON DAWSON CANYON rocks. These ridges appear to have SANTONIAN DAWSON CANYON CANYON FORMATION CONIACIAN FORMATION FORMATION been the base for carbonate banks OTTER BAY TURONIAN PETREL MBR PETREL MBR PETREL MBR L that grew within the Jurassic. These CENOMANIAN SHORT- SABLE M. LOGAN SHORT- EIDER BEN NAUTILUS ALBIAN LAND CANYON LAND NEVIS SHALE SHALE NASKAPI M. FM. SHALE banks, interpreted on the basis of APTIAN AVALON BARREMIAN seismic character, may have E MISSISAUGA HAUTERIVIAN MISSISSAUGA FORMATION CATALINA VALANGINIAN FORMATION porosity development creating the HIBERNIA BERRIASIAN opportunity for structural / TITHONIAN JEANNE D’ARC L KIMMERIDGIAN stratigraphic plays. The South Whale Subbasin contains the equivalent of the Micmac and Mississauga sandstones that have been key producers in the Scotian Basin. Seismic data indicates the presence of an Upper Jurassic reef front, that is known to contain thick porous intervals on the Scotian Shelf, but which has never been drilled offshore Newfoundland. Pan- Canadian Petroleum recently announced a major gas discovery within such a reef front offshore Nova Scotia. This “Deep Panuke” discovery was tested by two wells, both of which tested in excess of 50 million cubic feet per-day with the flow rates limited by equipment.
GEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK The presence of petroleum in Western Newfoundland has been recognized in surface seeps and shallow drilling since the late 1800's. The first modern exploration effort - using seismic to select a well location - was carried out by Hunt Oil and Pan Canadian in 1994-95 and resulted in the Hunt/Pan Canadian Port au Port #1 discovery. This well encountered four zones of good reservoir quality in the Cambro-Ordivician platform. The two lower zones were wet, but the upper two zones flowed oil at rates of 1528 and 1742 b/d respectively. Although follow up drilling at four other locations failed to make additional discoveries, the Port au Port #1 well proved the presence of a viable petroleum system in the area. Released seismic data show that large undrilled prospects remain to be tested throughout the offshore and onshore areas of western Newfoundland. GOVERNMENT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR Department of Mines and Energy Generalized Stratigraphic Sections Western Newfoundland Western Newfoundland GOVERNMENT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR Department of Mines and Energy Port au Port #1 Discovery Well LABRADOR QUEBEC ANTICOSTI BASIN GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE OS Hydrocarbon Shows Western Newfoundland NFLD OS GEOLOGY: LABRADOR STRAIT OF BELLE ISLE Show SEEPS: OTHER: OS ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oil, Gas,Oil & Gas) Oil Bitumen Oil Shales Carboniferous / Silurian Post Flysch Sequence Allocthon Shelf-Flysch Precambrian Basement 0 50 100 km Page 17 AUTOCHTHONOUS STRATA METRES 0 500 1000 SILURIAN ORDOVICIAN CAMBRIAN PE After: James et al, 1988 CLAM BANK LONG POINT GROUP MAINLAND SANDSTONE GOOSE TICKLE TABLE HEAD GROUP ST. GEORGE GROUP PORT AU PORT GROUP LABRADOR GROUP GRENVILLE BASEMENT U/C METRES 0 500 U/C - UNCONFORMITY ALLOCHTHONOUS LOWER ORDOVICIAN CAMBRIAN ORDOVICIAN Figure 3.8 SUITE PILLOW LAVAS SHEETED DIKES & BRECCIAS CUMULATES MOHO MANTLE METAMORPHIC AUREOLE MELANGE LOWER HEAD FORMATION COW HEAD GROUP CURLING GROUP MELANGE 8 km Figure 3.9 In Western Newfoundland and offshore in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, a Cambro-Ordovician carbonate platform overlies Paleozoic clastic sediments of the Labrador Group and crystalline basement. The Ordovician carbonates and clastics are locally overlain by Carboniferous clastic and carbonate sediments. Reservoir quality rocks have been identified in both the Cambro- Ordovician and the Carboniferous. The tectonic history of the area is complex. In the late Ordovician subsidence reactivated faulting, initiated during a period of extension in the Cambrian, produced normal faults in the carbonate platform. Later, compression brought the onset of thrusting and reverse faulting of the carbonate platform and older formations. Strike slip faulting along the Cabot Fault Zone led to the creation of Carboniferous pull apart basins.
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