1. Jørn Skov Nielsen - Deputy Minister
Ulrik Gregersen - GEUS
Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland
Phone: Fax:

2. Is oil present in greenland?

3. Licence calls in Greenland
Greenland has experienced a boom in oil exploration in 2006 and 2007
More than km2 offshore West Greenland are now covered by exploration and exploitation licences
The future licence call offshore NW & NE Greenland – the so-called KANUMAS areas
Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland
April AAPG Convention

4. Disko West licensing round 2006 and 2007 Licence area
Area was divided into 8 licence blocks comprising 92,228 km²
Field operations:
April 24 – JD 114: Laser flights of northern lines (V5-V8), aircraft has to return to Kangerlussuaq base due to other commitments
April 26 – JD116: Twin-Otter reflight of part of line V7-V8 with helicopter validation – weather finally ok
Medivac at T12 on Greenland ice sheet
April 21 – JD111: Twin-Otter flight to Qaarsut, awaiting weather for helicopter operations, lidar scanning of two southern lines (V1-V4) – no helicopter ops possible due to weather

5. Disko West licensing area - present situation
In 2007/08 6 (7th on the way) hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation licences were granted to:
Cairn Energy PLC, NUNAOIL
ExxonMobil, Chevron, DONG, NUNAOIL
Husky, ExxonMobil, NUNAOIL
Husky, NUNAOIL
Block 8 is applied for by PA Resources
The future licence call offshore NW & NE Greenland – the so-called KANUMAS areas
Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland
April AAPG Convention

6. Exploration & exploitation licences in SW Greenland
EnCana and Cairn Energy PLC have 2 exploration and exploitation licences offshore Nuuk in West Greenland.
Cairn Energy PLC has been granted 2 licences in the open door area offshore SW Greenland.
Further, two blocks have been applied for in the new open door area south of 60 N
The future licence call offshore NW & NE Greenland – the so-called KANUMAS areas
Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland
April AAPG Convention

7. The future licence call offshore NW & NE Greenland
The interest in the KANUMAS areas has increased significantly in continuation of the opening of the Disko West offshore region for oil and gas exploration and exploitation.
Several companies have made inquiries about the licence plans for the coming years in the KANUMAS areas.
W & NW Greenland
NE Greenland
GEUS & USGS 2006
The future licence call offshore NW & NE Greenland – the so-called KANUMAS areas
Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland
April AAPG Convention

8. KANUMAS preference area
NW Greenland (~ km2) is very important as a northward extension of the Disko West 2006/2007 licence call area.
NE Greenland (~ km2) is very important, on the conjugate margin to some very prolific areas offshore Norway.
The future licence call offshore NW & NE Greenland – the so-called KANUMAS areas
Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland
April AAPG Convention

9. Baffin Bay
Connected basins very likely: Ungava System and other combined rift/strike slip systems
Same petroleum systems as further south, but also possibilities for older successions like elsewhere in the Arctic
Strong need for new geophysical data acquisition, Started in the summer of 2007, continuation in 2008

10. Distribution of Itilli oil
Itilli oil derived from marine shale of presumed Cretaceous age
Emphasize size of area
Structural setting
Today I will skip all the chromatograms but just mention that a lot of data have been published over the last 10 years since the seepage was first discovered back in 1992

11. Conceptual play types in the Melville Bay area Giant structures
Lower Paleoc. source
Cenoman.-Turon. source
Emphasize size of area
Structural setting
Today I will skip all the chromatograms but just mention that a lot of data have been published over the last 10 years since the seepage was first discovered back in 1992
Whittaker et al. 1997

12. MM TC 500 ms BMP00-209 line Emphasize size of area Structural setting
Today I will skip all the chromatograms but just mention that a lot of data have been published over the last 10 years since the seepage was first discovered back in 1992
500 ms MM TC
BMP line

13. Conclusions - Baffin Bay
Many of the new data and results have been important for definition of structures and exploration models, where the Disko West is one of the keys to NE Baffin Bay
Large basin areas with possible mature source rocks – DHI´s and Paleocene and Cretaceous oil seeps/source rocks neighbouring Baffin Bay, suggest active petroleum systems
Large structures with mid-Cretaceous and late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene deposits close to possible active kitchens, make the region prospective
Emphasize size of area
Structural setting
Today I will skip all the chromatograms but just mention that a lot of data have been published over the last 10 years since the seepage was first discovered back in 1992

14. East Greenland – future focus
Close to prolific petroleum provinces in the North Atlantic and Arctic region
Many well documented source rocks onshore, including the World class Upper Jurassic
Outcrop data provide good models for reservoir sandstones and mudstone seals
Despite an irregular seismic coverage, some interesting structures looking like "classical fields" from mid-Norway have been observed
Interesting high numbers of undiscovered resources by USGS (in collaboration with GEUS)

15. Available data and knowledge
Offshore: seismic acquisition in 1991, 1994 and 1995 (irregular grid due to ice) by KANUMAS group.
New geophysical data acquisition in recent years (StatoilHydro 2006, 2007, TGS-Nopec 2007)

16. Main structural elements
from Hamann et al. 2005

17. USGS Asssesment 2007 Total Conventional Resources in NE Greenland
Mean
Liquids BB
Gas TCF
Total BBOE

18. Baffin Bay and North East Greenland by TGS-Nopec
Emphasize size of area
Structural setting
Today I will skip all the chromatograms but just mention that a lot of data have been published over the last 10 years since the seepage was first discovered back in 1992

19. Sea ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean
Announcement: 1 October 2007 from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder:
Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season plummeted to the lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979.
The average sea ice extent for the month of September was 4.28 million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles).
The lowest September on record, shattering the previous record for the month, set in 2005, by 23 percent
The magenta line indicates the long-term median from 1979 to 2000.
The future licence call offshore NW &
NE Greenland – the so-called KANUMAS areas
Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland
April AAPG Convention

20. Sea ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean
Recent ice cover in the Arctic Ocean
If ship and aircraft records from before the satellite era are taken into account, sea ice may have fallen by as much as 50 percent from the 1950s.
The September rate of sea ice decline since 1979 is now approximately 10 percent per decade, or 72,000 square kilometers (28,000 square miles) per year.
Average sea ice extent 1979 to 2000: 7.04 million square kilometers
5.57 million square kilometers in September 2005
September 2007 sea ice extent was 4.28 million square kilometers
September ice extent from 1979 to 2007
The future licence call offshore NW & NE Greenland – the so-called KANUMAS areas
Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland
April AAPG Convention

21. The future licence calls in NW and NE Greenland
Licensing rounds will be conducted in both KANUMAS West and KANUMAS East.
The North West Greenland licensing round will be one ordinary licensing round open to all
The licensing round in North East Greenland will be divided into two phases

22. The Schedule in North West Greenland
May 1st 2010: Deadline for applications for exploration and exploitation licences in NW Greenland (Baffin Bay)
Award of licences: three months after application date

23. The Schedule in North East Greenland
Phase 1
December 15th 2012: Deadline for applications in phase 1 of the licence round offshore Northeast Greenland
Phase 2
October 15th, 2013: Deadline for applications in phase 2 of the licence round offshore Northeast Greenland

24. Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland
Phone: Fax:
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