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Natural Resources Canada

Ressources Naturelles Canada

energy resource studies...

NorthernResourceDevelopmentProgram

INTEGRATED PETROLEUM RESOURCE POTENTIAL AND GEOSCIENCE STUDIES OF THE BOWSER AND SUSTUT BASINS

PROJECT WORKSHOP Feb. 27, 2004

CAE Feb27/04

INTEGRATED PETROLEUM RESOURCE POTENTIAL AND GEOSCIENCE STUDIES OF THE BOWSER AND SUSTUT BASINS

GOALS:-engage and educate northerners in geoscience-attract private sector investment to this frontier region-reduce exploration risk-increase employment opportunities for northerners.

Project OverviewA joint program undertaken by the Resource Development and Geoscience Branch of the B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines, and the Northern Resource Development Program of the Geological Survey of Canada (Natural Resources Canada)Current collaborators: Simon Fraser University, Gitcorp

Bowser Basin

N.E. British Columbia

CAE Feb27/04

INTEGRATED PETROLEUM RESOURCE POTENTIAL AND GEOSCIENCE STUDIES OF THE BOWSER AND SUSTUT BASINSProject OverviewGOAL: attract private sector investment to this frontier region / reduce exploration risk / increase employment opportunities for northerners.

BY: providing relevant geoscience framework and data for understanding energy resource potential; communication/publication (activities shown below) TIME: 4 years, starting April 1, 2003.

WHO: Joint GSC / BC MEM project, SFU, Gitcorp

INTEGRATED GEOSCIENCE FRAMEWORK / PETROLEUM

ASSESSMENT

Stratigraphic/structural framework

Petroleum resource studies and assessment

Geochronology / isotopic studies

Paleomagnetic studies

Potential Field studies

Thermochronology studies

Outreach

Biostratigraphic studies

GIS, map production, database, and information management

Seismic interpretationCommunity communication

Evenchick (GSC)Ferri (BCMEM)McMechan (GSC)Osadetz (GSC)Stasiuk (GSC)Wilson (GSC)Hannigan (GSC)Enkin (GSC)Lowe (GSC)Snyder (GSC)McNicoll (GSC)B.Ryan (BCMEM)Mustard (SFU)

J.Ryan (GSC)Poulton (GSC)Sweet (GSC)Chen (GSC)Fowler (GSC)Turner (GSC)Mate (GSC)Baker (GSC)Wagner (ESS)Quat (GSC)Joseph (GSC)Ritcey (GSC)

Research and technical team

CAE Feb27/04from GSC/BCMEM Open File 4343

Thermal maturity pre-2002: a largely unknown picture, but assumed to be bleak

Thermal maturity July 2002: new data release thoroughly revises perceptions of prospectivity

Revised Thermal Maturity Model And Indications For Effective Petroleum Systems

Complicated patterns of thermal maturation and maximum temperatures indicate that large areas of the Bowser Basin are in the oil and gas windows.

Relative prospectivity based on thermal maturity

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REGIONAL GEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK - location

north-central British Columbia

in Intermontane Belt of the Canadian Cordillera, a region of low metamorphic grade relative to the bounding Omineca Belt (metamorphic) and Coast Belt (plutonic and metamorphic

overlies Stikine Terrane (Stikinia), a terrane allochthonous to the North American margin prior to deposition of Bowser and Sustut basin strata

Stikinia and overlap basins are separated from certain North American rocks by oceanic Cache Creek terrane