Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool (PEMT) – Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta
The Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta dataset comes from the Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool (PEMT). The online tool was decommissioned in 2019 and the data was transferred to Open Data in order to preserve it.
The PEMT was originally developed in 2009 to help guide development in the Canadian Arctic by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). The online tool mapped the sensitivities of a variety of Arctic features, ranging from whales to traditional harvesting, across the Arctic. The tool was intended to aid government, oil and gas companies, Aboriginal groups, resource managers and public stakeholders in better understanding the geographic distribution of areas which are sensitive for environmental and socio-economic reasons.
The study area and analytical resolution was defined using the oil and gas leasing grid within the Beaufort Sea. The study area has been the scene of oil and gas exploration activity since 1957. Oil was first discovered at Atkinson Point in 1969 and major gas fields in the early 1970s. Such finds spurred the proposal of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline in 1974 and the addition of exploration and investment offshore. Exploration and drilling continued both onshore and offshore until the mid-1970s with the release of the Berger Report, which recommended a 10-year moratorium on the construction of the pipeline. After the release of the Berger Report, the pace of onshore activity declined but offshore exploration escalated in the 1980s. Offshore exploration was facilitated with innovative operating techniques and new offshore platforms that extended the ability to operate in the short open-water season and ice. With the minor exception of the small onshore gas field at Ikhil, no oil or gas has been commercially produced in the area.
DISCLAIMER: Please refer to the PEMT Disclaimer document or the Resource Constraints - Use Limitation in the Additional Information section below.
Note: This is one of the 3 (three) datasets included in the PEMT application which includes the High Arctic and Eastern Arctic datasets.
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- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2009-02-18
- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2009-09-10
1-866-817-3977
- Hours of service
- Monday to Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
- Credit
- Government of Canada; Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
- Status
- historicalArchive; archiveHistorique RI_594
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542
- Keywords ( RI_528 )
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- Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool
- PEMT
- Environment
- Arctic
- Canadian Arctic
- Environmental Sensitivity
- Exploration
- Production
- Petroleum
- Oil
- Beaufort Sea
- Mackenzie Delta
- High Arctic
- Eastern Arctic
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Arctic
- Economic development
- Environmental management
- Environment
- Natural gas
- Geology
- Northern Canada
- Petroleum
- Environmental impact
- Petroleum industry
- Use limitation
- Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Use constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Use limitation
- DISCLAIMER • The Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool (PEMT) data is for information purposes only. Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) does not guarantee that the data, which comes from outside sources, is accurate. • Data and information from PEMT have been developed through consultation with resource management partners. CIRNAC does not collect and has not interpreted or screened the environmental data or information provided to it. Users are strongly urged to consult the appropriate expert authorities to be fully informed on the state of knowledge regarding particular data and information. • Assignment of sensitivity rankings to environmental information is a subjective process. Explanations for these rankings are included in referenced materials and reflect the expert opinion of an environmental consultant, not CIRNAC. • The PEMT data was created using certain averaging techniques to characterize sensitivity values at the resolution of grid units. This allows quantitative comparisons to be made at a scale relevant to oil and gas rights issuance. The averaging techniques are explained in the documentation. • There should be no presumption by users that the PEMT data encompasses all relevant data and information. The PEMT data should not in any way be regarded as a substitute for data and information which may be submitted in the course of regulatory approvals of oil and gas activities.
- Spatial representation type
- vector; vecteur RI_635
- Metadata language
- fra; CAN
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Economy
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Oceans
- Begin date
- 2008-03-10
- End date
- 2012-04-18
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- Reference system identifier
- http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4617 / 7.11.2
- Distribution format
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unknown
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unknown
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unknown
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WFS
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1.1.0
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ESRI REST
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Unknown
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WMS
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1.3.0
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1-866-817-3977
- Hours of service
- Monday to Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
- OnLine resource
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Web Feature Service (WFS)
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HTTPS
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Web Service;WFS;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
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Pre-packaged FGDB file
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HTTPS
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Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
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Pre-packaged SHP file
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HTTPS
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Dataset;SHP;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
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Pre-packaged CSV file
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HTTPS
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Dataset;CSV;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
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Data Dictionary - Web Services (in French)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;CSV;fra
- OnLine resource
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Data Dictionary - Web Services (in English)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;CSV;eng
- OnLine resource
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Data Dictionary - FGDB (in French)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;CSV;fra
- OnLine resource
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Data Dictionary - FGDB (in English)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;CSV;eng
- OnLine resource
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Data Dictionary - SHP (in French)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;CSV;fra
- OnLine resource
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Data Dictionary - SHP (in English)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;CSV;eng
- OnLine resource
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Data Dictionary - CSV (in French)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;CSV;fra
- OnLine resource
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Data Dictionary - CSV (in English)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;CSV;eng
- OnLine resource
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The petroleum and Environmental Management Tool : Application of Risk Assessment Tool and Cumulative Effects Model for the Eastern Arctic and high Arctic Study Areas : Final Report (English only)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- OnLine resource
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Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool : Risk-based Analysis and Cumulative Effects Scenarios for the Eastern Arctic (English only)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- OnLine resource
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Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool : High Arctic Study Area : 2011 Update (English only)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- OnLine resource
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Beaufort Sea Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool (English only)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- OnLine resource
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Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool : Eastern Arctic Study Area : Final Report (English only)
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HTTPS
)
Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- OnLine resource
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Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool : High Arctic Study Area : Final Report (English only)
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HTTPS
)
Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- OnLine resource
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Development of a decision support tool for resource management in support of a strategic environmental assessment for the Canadian Beaufort Sea (English only)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- OnLine resource
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PEMT Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta Layers (in English)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- OnLine resource
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PEMT Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta Layers (in French)
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HTTPS
)
Supporting Document;PDF;fra
- OnLine resource
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PEMT Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta
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ESRI REST: Map Server
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;eng
- OnLine resource
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PEMT Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta
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ESRI REST: Map Server
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Web Service;ESRI REST;fra
- OnLine resource
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PEMT Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta
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OGC:WMS
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Web Service;WMS;eng
- OnLine resource
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PEMT Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta
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OGC:WMS
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Web Service;WMS;fra
- OnLine resource
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PEMT Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta
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HTTPS
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Dataset;KML;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
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PEMT Disclaimer (French)
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HTTPS
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Supporting Document;PDF;fra
- OnLine resource
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PEMT Disclaimer (English)
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HTTPS
)
Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- File identifier
- 16404476-97cf-480c-83ad-7ef0a8f117d1 XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-28T08:42:21
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
1-866-817-3977
- Hours of service
- Monday to Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
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