I. INTRODUCTION


This CD-ROM contains a compilation of all existing public domain conventional core analysis data for the Scotian Shelf and Slope, offshore Nova Scotia, Eastern Canada.  This area has been the subject of hydrocarbon exploration since the 1950's.  By 1997, twenty significant discoveries and two commercial discoveries had been made (CNSOPB, 1997) in the Sable Island area. One hundred and sixty eight wells have been spudded by January 2000, of which 71 wells have released Conventional Core analysis data and 10 wells have released Special Core analysis data. Publicly available data compiled in this database were accessed at the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB) Core Storage and Laboratory in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. This compilation of core analysis data marks the first effort in compiling and summarizing the wealth of reservoir information that has accumulated since the start of hydrocarbon exploration on the Scotian Shelf and Slope.

The Scotian Shelf and Slope are bounded on the east by the Laurentian Channel and on the west by the Northeast Channel, off the southwestern tip of Nova Scotia Figure 1. The Scotian Shelf has an average width of 200 km and an average water depth of 125m. At approximately 200m water depth the seafloor gradient changes abruptly to more than 1:40 - this marks the change from the continental shelf to the continental slope. The Scotian Slope lies within water depths ranging from 200 to 4000m and up to date, only a few wells have been drilled on the slope.

The primary reservoirs are the sandstones of the Upper Jurassic Mic Mac Formation and the Lower Cretaceous Missisauga Formation. The general stratigraphy for the Scotian Shelf and Slope are summarized in II. STRATIGRAPHY . The geology and stratigraphy for the Scotian Shelf and Slope are discussed in detail in Keen and Williams (1990) and other publications.
 

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