Where is petroleum found

Question 1

Where is petroleum found?
Crude oil and natural gas are found
in ?? over
millions of years by the accumulation
of sand, silt, mud and the remains of ?? 
 in ? basins.

Answer 1

sedimentary rocks formed

living creatures

sedimentary

Question 2

Canada has ? distinct regions or
domains of sedimentary rocks. Every
province and territory includes at
least a portion of a ??.
These basins cover the majority of the
land area of Alberta and Saskatchewan
and large areas off the ??

Answer 2

seven

sedimentary basin

East Coast.

Question 3

The most productive hydrocarbon
area is the ????, which includes
most of Alberta and Saskatchewan
and parts of British Columbia,
Manitoba, Yukon and the Northwest
Territories

Answer 3

Western Canada

Sedimentary Basin

Question 4

In 2003, the Western
Canada Sedimentary Basin accounted
for 87 per cent of Canada’s crude
oil and ? per cent of natural gas
production

Answer 4

97

Question 5

The Geological Survey
of Canada (GSC) estimates this basin
contained ? per cent of Canada’s
original in-place conventional
petroleum resources.

Answer 5

57

Question 6

This figure (57%)
does not include natural gas from
coal or the non-conventional bitumen
resources of the Alberta ?,
the world’s largest known petroleum
resource.

Answer 6

oilsands

Question 7

The vast majority of current
crude oil and natural gas exploration
and production activities are
concentrated in the .

Answer 7

Western Canada

Sedimentary Basin

Question 8

The ?? extends along the
East Coast from the U.S. border to the
coast of Baffin Island. This area is the
site of major offshore crude oil and
natural gas deposits discovered since
the 1970s

Answer 8

Atlantic Margin

Question 9

This region’s first crude oil
production was from 1992 to 1999
from the Cohasset and Panuke oil
fields off Nova Scotia, and much
larger oil production began in 1997
from the Hibernia project off
Newfoundland and Labrador.

Answer 9

Atlantic Margin

Question 10

??, another project in the same
vicinity, began crude oil production
in 2002, and the White Rose project
is scheduled to begin production in
2005.

Answer 10

Terra

Nova

Question 11

This region’s first natural gas
production began in 1999 from the
? Offshore Energy Project off
Nova Scotia.

Answer 11

Atlantic Margin

Sable

Question 12

The Geological Survey
of Canada estimates that the Atlantic
Margin contained  per cent of
Canada’s original in-place conventional
petroleum resources. It is an
increasingly important contributor
to the nation’s petroleum supply

Answer 12

18

Question 13

Substantial crude oil and natural gas
resources have also been identified
in the Arctic Islands, 
?? and the ??, but
development has been slow due
to ? land claims, the long
distance from markets and the
?  of pipeline systems.

Answer 13

Beaufort Sea
Mackenzie Valley

Aboriginal

absence

Question 14

Two
regions of sedimentary rocks – the
Arctic Margin and the Arctic Cratonic
regions – are estimated to hold  per
cent of Canada’s  total conventional
petroleum resources. (Cratonic rocks
are those that have been relatively
undisturbed since ?
times, generally found in interior areas
of continents.)

Answer 14

16

pre-Cambrian

Question 15

The only production
to date has been tanker shipments of
crude oil from ? to  ?from the
Bent Horn well in the Arctic Islands
(? ? region), and natural
gas production from the Ikhil field in
the Mackenzie Delta (? ?
region) since 1999 to supply the
community of ? 50 kilometres
away.

Answer 15

1985
1996
Arctic Cratonic

Arctic Margin

Inuvik

Question 16

One tanker load of crude oil
was also shipped to Japan in 1986
following an extended production
of the Amauligak discovery well in
the ?? (Arctic Margin).

Answer 16

Beaufort Sea

Question 17

The ? ? region includes
parts of Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario,
Quebec, the Maritime provinces
and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Answer 17

Eastern Cratonic

Question 18

this region’s sedimentary
rocks are estimated to contain just two
per cent of Canada’s original in-place
conventional petroleum resources

Answer 18

Eastern Cratonic

Question 19

One area of Eastern Cratonic rock is
the portion of the ? ? that
includes an area of southern Ontario
and the adjacent Great Lakes. This
area has been producing crude oil
since the 1850s, and it continues to
produce a small portion (less than
? per cent) of Canada’s current
crude oil and natural gas supply.

Answer 19

Michigan Basin

one

Question 20

The ? region is the area
of British Columbia and the Yukon
located between the Canadian
Rockies and the West Coast mountain
ranges. There has been some
exploration in Intermontane areas,
which are estimated to contain ?
per cent of Canada’s original in-place
conventional petroleum resources.

Answer 20

Intermontane

three

Question 21

The  ? ?  off the B.C. coast
is estimated to contain another ?
per cent of the nation’s original inplace conventional petroleum
resources, but there has been no
exploration since ?  when the
federal and provincial governments
imposed ? on offshore
oil and gas activities in the area.

Answer 21

Pacific Margin

four

1972

moratoria

Question 22

Since 2001, the B.C. and federal
governments have been reviewing
the Pacific bans; a federal panel began
hearings in ?.

Answer 22

2004