Project SYD VEST SEIS - 3285 km of multichannel seismic data acquired on the southern West Greenland shelf

Abstract

During the three years since 1988, there has been renewed activity within the Geological Survey of Greenland (GGU) to reassess the geology and petroleum prospectivity of the southern West Greenland offshore area (Chalmers, 1989; Chalmers, 1990; Chalmers & Pulvertaft, in press; Ottesen, 1991). Pulvertaft (1991) gives a summary of the present state of the re-evaluation. This work has shown that the geology of the northern Labrador Sea and offshore southern West Greenland is poorly understood. A number of questions about the area's petroleum prospectivity remain unanswered despite re-interpretation and in some cases reprocessing of the existing seismic data. These problems derive from limitations in both the quality and extent of the existing seismic coverage.