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Hydrocarbon resource assessment of Hudson Bay, northern Canada

A revised qualitative assessment of the hydrocarbon resource potential is presented for the Hudson Bay sedimentary basin that underlies Hudson Bay and adjacent onshore areas of Ontario, Manitoba, and Nunavut. The Hudson Basin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin thatpreserves dominantly Ordovician to Devonian aged limestone and evaporite strata. Maximum preserved sediment thickness is about 2.5 km. Source rock is the petroleum system element that has the lowest chance of success; the potential source rock is thin, may be discontinuous, and the thin sedimentarycover may not have been sufficient to achieve the temperatures required to generate and expel oil from a source rock over much of the basin. The highest potential is in the center of the basin, where the hydrocarbon potential is considered amp;lt;'Mediumamp;gt;'. Hydrocarbon potential decreasestowards the edges of the basin due to fewer plays being present, and thinner strata reduce the chance of oil generation and expulsion. Quantitative hydrocarbon assessment considers seven plays. Input parameters for field size and field density (per unit area) are based on analog Michigan, Williston,and Illinois intracratonic sedimentary basins that are about the same age and that had similar depositional settings to Hudson Basin. Basin-wide play and local prospect chances of success were assigned based on local geological conditions in Hudson Bay. Each of the seven plays were analyzed in Roseand Associates PlayRA software, which performs a Monte Carlo simulation using the local chance of success matrix and field size and prospect numbers estimated from analog basins. Hudson sedimentary basin has a mean estimate of 67.3 million recoverable barrels of oil equivalent and a 10% chance ofhaving 202.2 or more million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. The mean chance for the largest expected pool is about 15 million recoverable barrels of oil equivalent (MMBOE), and there is only a 10% chance of there being a field larger than 23.2 MMBOE recoverable. The small expected fieldsizes are based on the large analog data set from Michigan, Williston and Illinois basins, and are due to the geological conditions that create the traps. The small size of the largest expected field, the low chance of exploration success, and the small overall resource make it unlikely that there are any economically recoverable hydrocarbons in the Hudson Basin in the foreseeable future. The Southampton Island area of interest includes 93 087 km2 of nearshore waters around Southampton Island and Chesterfield Inlet in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut. Of the total resource estimated for Hudson Bay, 14 million barrels are apportioned to the Southampton Island Area of Interest.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2023-08-04
Date ( RI_366 )
2018-11-06
Edition
1
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada

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Open File
Issue identification
8989
Other citation details
K.E. Dewing, C.J. Lister, L.E. Kung, E.A. Atkinson, H.M. King, A.M. Kalejaiye, and A. Krakowka(2023). Hydrocarbon resource assessment of Hudson Bay, northern Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File, 8989. https://doi.org/10.4095/332028
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
GSC Keywords Vocabulary - Thesaurus Thésaurus - vocabulaire de mots-clé de la CGC ( RI_528 )
  • marine protected area
  • resource assessment
  • petroleum geology
NRCan - GSC - Unspecified - Keywords list Liste de mots-clés - RNCan - CGC - Indéterminé ( RI_528 )
  • hydrocarbon
NRCan - GSC - Place - Keywords list Liste de mots-clés - RNCan - CGC - Lieu ( RI_528 )
  • Manitoba
  • Nunavut
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Geology
Use limitation
No constraint
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Environment description
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2018-06-01
End date
2024-08-04
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RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
OnLine resource
Hydrocarbon resource assessment of Hudson Bay, northern Canada - French ( HTTPS )

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Évaluation des ressources en hydrocarbures de la baie d'Hudson, nord du Canada - Anglais ( HTTPS )

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Hydrocarbon resource assessment of Hudson Bay, northern Canada - French ( OGC:WMS )

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Hydrocarbon resource assessment of Hudson Bay, northern Canada - English ( OGC:WMS )

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Hydrocarbon resource assessment of Hudson Bay, northern Canada - English ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

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Hydrocarbon resource assessment of Hudson Bay, northern Canada - French ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

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dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Description
Title: A probability-based method to generate qualitative petroleum potential maps: adapted for and illustrated using ArcGIS -- Description: Refer to Open File 8404 (2018).This report describes a systematic, probabilistic method grounded in accepted scientific practices to infer undiscovered petroleum resources. Its primary purpose was to expedite creation of petroleum resource summary reports required to be supplied by NRCan to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) or Parks Canada (PCA) as part of their process to environmentally protect areas of Canada's marine and coastal waters. It is innovative in that it produces a spatial overlay representing relative levels of hydrocarbon discovery success with a subjective volume estimate (qualitative), rather than predicting volumes of potentially discoverable petroleum (quantitative), which is ideal, but time consuming. The method keeps results comparable when used across different geographic areas and is the current standard for qualitative-type petroleum resource assessments done by the GSC for DFO and PCA. It allows for efficient expansion into quantitative petroleum estimates, if and when needed.
RI_416
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Calgary - Lindsay Kung ( )
Description
Lister, C.J., King, H.M., Atkinson, E.A., Kung, L.E., and Nairn, R., 2018. Méthode probabiliste de génération de cartes qualitatives du potentiel pétrolier : méthode adaptée et illustrée à l'aide d'ArcGIS ; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8404, 50 p. https://doi.org/10.4095/311225
File identifier
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Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2024-10-25T10:24:49
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
Dataset URI
https://doi.org/10.4095/332028
 
 

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