Project Fjord Seis: An evaluation of the structure and petroleum potential of Disko, Nuussuaq and the surrounding fjord areas, central West Greenland

This report is a summary for the Mineral Resources Administration for Greenland and the Government of Greenland, Minerals Office of the results of interpreting seismic and gravity data in order to evaluate the structure and petroleum prospectivity of the sedimentary basins onshore and in the fjord areas of central West Greenland (the Nuussuaq and Disko Bugt Basins).

The background for the report is the series of petroleum activities in the Disko Bugt/Nuussuaq area that started with the discovery by GGU in 1992 of oil in basalts on the Nuussuaq peninsula (Fig. 1) (Christiansen et al., 1993). The discovery was subsequently extended by GGU both at outcrop and by drilling (Christiansen et al., 1994) and by the exploration work carried out by grønArctic Energy Inc. in their various licences (Christiansen et al., 1996), which included the drilling of 3 slim-hole wells in 1995 and a full-scale exploration well in 1996. The discovery of oil has revised the existing opinion that the whole of the West Greenland area is gas-prone and in particular has promoted the Nuussuaq Basin from being merely a model for what might be found offshore to being an exploration province in its own right.