New Understanding of the Petroleum Systems of Continental Margins of the World

A Late Jurassic Play Fairway Beyond the Jeanne d’Arc Basin: New Insights for a Petroleum System in the Northern Flemish Pass Basin
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Published:December 01, 2012
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John Cody, David Hunter, Stephen Schwartz, Jonathan Marshall, Simon Haynes, Kai Gruschwitz, Michael McDonough, 2012. "A Late Jurassic Play Fairway Beyond the Jeanne d’Arc Basin: New Insights for a Petroleum System in the Northern Flemish Pass Basin", New Understanding of the Petroleum Systems of Continental Margins of the World, Norman C. Rosen, Paul Weimer, Sylvia Maria Coutes dos Anjos, Sverre Henrickson, Edmundo Marques, Mike Mayall, Richard Fillon, Tony D’Agostino, Art Saller, Kurt Campion, Tim Huang, Rick Sarg, Fred Schroeder
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Abstract
The Grand Banks of Newfoundland is a broad continental shelf that extends 450 km into the North Atlantic Ocean. A sequence of Mesozoic rift-events and subsequent break-ups associated with the North Atlantic rift are recorded in a series of complex basins. From the onset of exploration in the 1960’s, regional exploration on the Grand Banks has been primarily focused on the Early Cretaceous Ben Nevis and Hibernia formations shallow marine sandstone reservoirs. This early phase of exploration resulted in the discovery of the Hibernia, White Rose, and Hebron fields in the southern Jeanne d’Arc Basin. Collectively, these fields contain approximately 2.5 billion barrels of oil resources. The Terra Nova Field in the southern Jeanne d’Arc basin is the exception to this Early Cretaceous play trend, producing from Late Jurassic braided fluvial reservoirs (Jeanne d’Arc Formation) and contains approximately 500 million barrels of oil resources. This presentation is focused on recognizing and delineating a now proven petroleum system in the North Flemish Pass basin.
- Atlantic Ocean
- braided streams
- Canada
- clastic rocks
- Cretaceous
- Eastern Canada
- estuarine environment
- fluvial environment
- Grand Banks
- Jeanne d'Arc Basin
- Jeanne d'Arc Formation
- Jurassic
- Kimmeridgian
- Lower Cretaceous
- Mesozoic
- Newfoundland
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- North Atlantic
- oil and gas fields
- petroleum
- reservoir rocks
- sandstone
- sedimentary rocks
- source rocks
- streams
- Tithonian
- Upper Jurassic
- Ben Nevis Formation
- Terra Nova Field
- Egret Member
- Rankin Formation
- Flemish Pass Basin
- Avalon Formation
- Hibernia Formation
- petroleum systems
- Mizzen Field
- Bodhran Sandstone