Quick
Search: 		  
advanced search
 GSW Home   GeoRef Home   My GSW Alerts   Contact GSW   About GSW   Journals List   Help 
The Leading Edge Email Content Delivery
JOURNAL HOME HELP CONTACT PUBLISHER SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Leading Edge; January 2001; v. 20; no. 1; p. 52-53; DOI: 10.1190/1.1438876
© 2001 Society of Exploration Geophysicists
This Article
Right arrow Figures Only
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Enachescu, M.
Right arrow Articles by Lines, L.
Right arrow Search for Related Content

An introduction to this special section

Michael Enachescu and Larry Lines

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

It should be no surprise to exploration geoscientists that Canada has immense reserves of oil and natural gas. Canada covers 9 976 185 km2, the largest area of any country in the Western Hemisphere and the second largest in the world. Canada's coastlines stretch from the Atlantic to the Arctic to the Pacific. This gigantic expanse of land and water has many major petroleum-producing basins (several of which have immense untapped potential) and numerous frontier basins that have not seen systematic exploration since the early 1980s (Figure 1).


Figure Removed (Available Only in the Full Text)
View larger version (60K):
[in this window]
[in a new window]
  		Figure 1. Canadian frontier sedimentary basins.

 
Canada is the world's fifth largest energy producer—behind the United States, Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia. Canada is a net exporter of oil, with a daily production of 2.7 million barrels and exports of 0.76 million barrels. Canada produces more than 6 trillion ft3 of natural gas per year and exports about 30% of it, supplying nearly 94% of U.S. natural gas imports through a continuously augmented pipeline system. Estimated conventional crude oil reserves are 4.9 billion barrels of oil and 63.9 trillion ft3 of natural gas. Due to increased prices for oil and natural gas, Canadian drilling activity in 2000 rebounded from the 1999 depressed level; the final count should exceed 14 000 wells. During much of 1998 and 1999, seismic activity was also depressed (although marine acquisition hit record levels on the east coast). Canada's land seismic exploration activity is generally highest in the winter when many surveys are collected over the frozen muskeg, tundra, and prairie regions. Canadian crew counts are often similar to those in the United States. (For example, crew counts in the February 2000 issue of TLE showed 57 seismic crews operating in the United States and 54 in Canada out of a total of 318 crews worldwide). Combined . . . [Full Text of this Article]






JOURNAL HOME HELP CONTACT PUBLISHER SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 2009 by Society of Exploration Geophysicists