The Sydney Basin of Eastern Canada; An Overlooked Carboniferous Basin With Demonstrated Petroleum Potential; Thoughts, Facts and Musings

摘要

The Sydney Basin represents the most easterly extent of the upper Paleozoic fill of the much larger Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada (Figure 1). Thick sequences (12 km+) of mid-Devonian to Upper Carboniferous / Permian sediments include thick non-marine, multi-storied sandstones, extensive limestones and thick salt overlain by multistoried fluvial sands and coal measures. It is worth noting that a significant portion of Canada’s light oil and gas output comes from Paleozoic reservoirs, and over 20% of world oil reserves originate in Paleozoic reservoirs. (Enachescu, M.E, 2006)