| Title | Database of suspect oil seeps in the marine environment of Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, Nunavut, identified from a survey of RADARSAT-2 data
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Decker, V; Budkewitsch, P; Tang, W |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7404, 2013, 12 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/292761  Open Access |
| Year | 2013 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; rtf; kmz |
| Province | Northern offshore region |
| Area | Hudson Bay; Foxe Basin; Baffin Bay; Hudson Bay Basin; Davis Strait |
| Lat/Long WENS | -94.0000 -80.0000 63.0000 56.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -82.0000 -72.5000 70.0000 66.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -80.0000 -54.0000 75.0000 62.0000 |
| Subjects | geophysics; marine geology; fossil fuels; hydrocarbons; hydrocarbon potential; remote sensing; satellite imagery; mapping techniques; oil; oil seeps; lithology; sedimentary rocks; reservoir rocks;
basins; SAR; RADARSAT-2; Devonian; Silurian; Ordovician; Paleozoic |
| Illustrations | location maps; satellite images |
| Program | GEM: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Baffin Bay Sedimentary Basins - Canadian Arctic Petroleum Systems East (CAPSE) |
| Program | GEM: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Hudson / Foxe Bay Sedimentary Basins |
| Released | 2013 08 22 (10:00) |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Offshore hydrocarbon seeps are sometimes known to occur in association with oil producing basins. There are known natural oil seeps in Canada's offshore
basins, but they are relatively unstudied when compared to seeps from other areas around the world. In the Canadian Arctic, no systematic surveys (in the public domain) have been carried out for determining natural baselines of seeps or to assist
with identifying prospective petroleum systems. This report presents results of an assessment using a particular type of satellite imagery -- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). RADARSAT-2 SAR imagery was collected over a period of 3 summers to detect
possible oil seeps in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. From the 318 scenes analysed, 46 suspect targets have been identified. Results demonstrate that satellite SAR imagery can be used to infer areas of potential oil seepage at the sea bottom, which are
possibly related to active petroleum systems. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 292761 |
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