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oa New Insights into the Slope and Deep Water Regions of the Southern Grand Banks Area, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 78th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2016, May 2016, Volume 2016, p.1 - 5
Abstract
The Southern and South-eastern Newfoundland and Labrador regions cover an area approximately one-third the size of the US Gulf of Mexico. This vast offshore region remains underexplored both on the shelf, and in the slope and deep water area. Additionally, the slope and deep water areas historically have only partial seismic coverage with acquisition in 1999 (Western Geophysical Petrol Ltd.) and 2000 (Geco Geophysical Canada Ltd.). As a result of this sparse seismic dataset, Mesozoic basin extents have not been fully delineated over the slope and deep water regions. Recently, Nalcor Energy partnered with TGS and PGS, has acquired regional 2D seismic surveys over these frontier offshore regions in an effort to better understand their resource potential. Prior to the recent acquisition of 36,325 line kilometres of regional 2D broadband seismic that began in 2014 little information existed about the extent and nature of the stratigraphic section over the remaining portion of the Southern Newfoundland offshore. Interpretation of the newly acquired seismic data is revealing increased extents of previously defined basins, thickness of Mesozoic stratigraphy, as well as the complex deformation history of these regions.
