Geological setting and resource potential of conventional petroleum plays in Paleozoic basins in eastern Canada

Dietrich, Jane S.; Lavoie, Denis; Hannigan, P K; Pinet, Nicolas; Castonguay, S; Giles, P. S.; Hamblin, A P

doi:10.2113/gscpgbull.59.1.54

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“…The deeper water sediments of the Utica (southern Quebec) and Macasty (Anticosti Island) black shales were deposited during periods of rapid subsidence of the foreland basin (Globensky, 1987;Dietrich et al, 2011). The viscoelastic flexure induced by thrust-loading on the Laurentian lithosphere during Taconian orogeny and consequent maximum lithospheric subsidence produced an oxygen-deficient deep foreland basin (Baird and Brett, 2002).…”

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“…The Upper Ordovician Utica Shale in southern Quebec has been considered as an excellent hydrocarbon source rock since the early days of hydrocarbon exploration in this area (Lavoie et al, 2009;Dietrich et al, 2011). In eastern Canada, significant industry interest has recently focused on the Upper Ordovician black shales in southern Quebec and Anticosti Island for their unconventional reservoir potential, including the Utica Shale, Lorraine Group and Macasty Shale (Castonguay et al, 2010;Dietrich et al, 2011;Lavoie et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2014).…”

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“…In eastern Canada, significant industry interest has recently focused on the Upper Ordovician black shales in southern Quebec and Anticosti Island for their unconventional reservoir potential, including the Utica Shale, Lorraine Group and Macasty Shale (Castonguay et al, 2010;Dietrich et al, 2011;Lavoie et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2014). Shale gas exploration in the Utica Shale began in 2006 in southern Quebec.…”

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Geochemical and petrographic characterization of the Upper Ordovician Utica Shale, southern Quebec, Canada

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Geochemical and petrographic characterization of the Upper Ordovician Utica Shale, southern Quebec, Canada

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“…1); it contains Middle Devonian to early Permian continental and shallow marine strata, with a maximum thickness of ∼12; 000 m in the east-central Magdalen basin ( Fig. 1; Dietrich et al, 2011).…”

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“…The Maritimes basin has numerous potential and proven hydrocarbon systems (Lavoie et al, 2009;Dietrich et al, 2011). In 1859, one of North America's first oil wells was drilled just outside Moncton, near the village of Dover (St. Peter and Johnson, 2009).…”

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Monitoring the Earthquake Activity in an Area with Shale Gas Potential in Southeastern New Brunswick, Canada

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Upper crustal investigation of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence region, eastern Canada using ambient noise tomography

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We studied the 3‐D shear wave velocity (Vs) structure in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (GSL) and adjacent onshore areas to 20 km depth by inverting Rayleigh wave dispersion extracted from the vertical components of continuous ambient seismic noise waveforms. The region is divided into three broad zones based on their Vs characteristics. In the northwest, the Grenville Province (i.e., the exposed edge of predominantly Middle‐Proterozoic Laurentian crust) is dominated by high Vs, except for well‐known anorthosite sites, which are characterized by relatively lower Vs. In contrast, the central segment of the GSL region corresponds to a belt with generally low Vs at upper crustal levels. In the southeastern part of the GSL, prominent low Vs in the uppermost crust are found to coincide with locations of subsidiary basins of the Canadian Maritime Basin, while higher Vs characterize the accreted Appalachian terranes where they are exposed on land. The Grenville Province is wedged out at depth by the Red Indian Line, which is the suture between composite Laurentia and peri‐Godwanan Ganderia in the Canadian Appalachians. The geometry and Vs characteristics of the south‐easternmost peri‐Gondwanan terranes of Avalonia and Meguma suggest that they may be fully or partially structurally overlying a basement with distinct seismic characteristics, which could be a vestige of the West African craton that was underthrust beneath composite Laurentia during the terminal Alleghenian continent‐continent collision. In the middle of the GSL, the 3‐D geometry of the Canadian Maritimes sedimentary basins overlying the Appalachian terranes shows that the depth to the top of basement is in excess of 8 km.

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Geological setting and resource potential of conventional petroleum plays in Paleozoic basins in eastern Canada

Cited by 44 publications

References 113 publications

Geochemical and petrographic characterization of the Upper Ordovician Utica Shale, southern Quebec, Canada

Geochemical and petrographic characterization of the Upper Ordovician Utica Shale, southern Quebec, Canada

Monitoring the Earthquake Activity in an Area with Shale Gas Potential in Southeastern New Brunswick, Canada

Upper crustal investigation of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence region, eastern Canada using ambient noise tomography

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