Qualitative petroleum resource assessment of the Magdalen Basin in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Quebec, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador

GIS compilation of data used to perform the stacked cumulative chance of success (resource potential map) in Open file 8556. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has been tasked, under the Marine Conservation Targets (MCT) initiative announced in Budget 2016, with evaluating the petroleum resource potential for areas identified for possible protection as part of the Government of Canada's commitment to conserve 10% of its marine areas by 2020. As part of this initiative, NRCan's Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) conducted a broad regional study of the petroleum potential over the majority of the Magdalen Basin, which is the principal geological basin in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. The GSC resource assessment is visually represented by a qualitative petroleum potential map. Disclaimer: A simplified colored version of the map is displayed on the Web Mapping Service (WMS). The correct version is available for download through the Federal Geospatial Platform (FGP) and GEOSCAN.

Date ( RI_367 ): 2020-03-10

Date ( RI_366 ): 2020-03-10

Edition: 1

RI_414

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada

RI_415

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Calgary - Lindsay Kung

3303 33 Street NW , Calgary , Alberta , T2L 2A7 , Canada

RI_413

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Calgary - Lindsay Kung

3303 33 Street NW , Calgary , Alberta , T2L 2A7 , Canada

RI_409

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Calgary - Lindsay Kung

3303 33 Street NW , Calgary , Alberta , T2L 2A7 , Canada

Name: Open File

Other citation details: Atkinson, E A; Durling, P W; Kublik, K; Lister, C J; King, H M; Kung, L E; Jassim, Y; McCarthy, W M; Hayward, N; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8556, 2020, 109 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/321856

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
petroleum geology
resource assessment

NRCan - GSC - Place - Keywords list Liste de mots-clés - RNCan - CGC - Lieu ( RI_528 )

Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island

NRCan - GSC - Unspecified - Keywords list Liste de mots-clés - RNCan - CGC - Indéterminé ( RI_528 )

hydrocarbon

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: licence; license 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 RI_458

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Environment description: ESRI ArcGIS 10.7 - File geodatabase

Begin date: 2020-03-10

End date: 2020-03-10

Reference system identifier: http://www.epsg-registry.org/ / EPSG:42304 / 6.14

Geometric object type: ;

Distribution format

FGDB/GDB ( unknown )

RI_412

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Calgary - Lindsay Kung

3303 33 Street NW , Calgary , Alberta , T2L 2A7 , Canada

RI_414

Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada

OnLine resource: Qualitative petroleum resource assessment of the Magdalen Basin in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Quebec, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador - French ( HTTPS )
Dataset;HTML;fra

OnLine resource: Évaluation qualitative des ressources pétrolières du bassin de la Madeleine dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent; Québec, Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Nouveau-Brunswick, Nouvelle-Écosse et Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador - Anglais ( HTTPS )
Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource: Qualitative petroleum resource assessment of the Magdalen Basin in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Quebec, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador - English ( ESRI REST: Map Service )
Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource: Qualitative petroleum resource assessment of the Magdalen Basin in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Quebec, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador - French ( ESRI REST: Map Service )
Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource: Qualitative petroleum resource assessment of the Magdalen Basin in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Quebec, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador - English ( OGC:WMS )
Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource: Qualitative petroleum resource assessment of the Magdalen Basin in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Quebec, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador - French ( OGC:WMS )
Web Service;WMS;fra

Hierarchy level: 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