Geophysical and petroleum geological activities in the Nuussuaq – Svartenhuk Halvø area 1994: promising results for an onshore exploration potential

Abstract

After the successful completion of the 1993 field work and drilling programme in the Marraat area on western Nuussuaq (Fig. 1), including a subsequent logging and geophysical programme (see Christiansen et al., 1994a, b; Dam & Christiansen, 1994), a new picture of onshore ex­ploration opportunities has started to develop. Previously the onshore basins were only considered to have a minor exploration potential, if any at all. However, the Disko-Nuussuaq-Svartenhuk Halvo region has been an important study area because many of the key parameters (sedimentological, stratigraphical and organic geochemical data from the excellent outcrops) may be obtained for predicting the distribution of reservoir and source rocks in the neighbouring major offshore basins in North-West and West Greenland (Christiansen et al., 1992, I994c).