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New Carboniferous potential seen in Cumberland subbasin, Canada

08/05/2002
Considerable exploratory interest has come to focus on eastern Canada's Maritimes basin. This basin defines a large and complex tectonic depression of Late Paleozoic age, encompassing most of eastern New Brunswick, northern Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the offshore area that separates these provinces from Newfoundland (Fig. 1). Click here to enlarge imageUntil recently, the entire onshore portion of the Maritimes basin, including some 40,000 sq km, had only one hydrocarbon-producing area-Stoney Creek field, discovered in 1909-and had attracted only sporadic, localized exploratory drilling.Several factors have kindled new interest in the basin.The completion in 1999 of the M...
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