f The prospectivity of the Western Nordkapp Basin

The Barents Sea still contains a number of exciting new plays and prospects. The Western Nordkapp Basin is a little explored basin located in the easternmost portion of the Norwegian Barents Sea. The basin is essentially a deep Paleozoic and Triassic depocenter punctuated by salt walls which strike parallel to the basin axis. Structuring associated with these diapirs has created a number of interesting plays which are currently being evaluated in the Norwegian Fourteenth Licensing Round.