Jrn Skov Nielsen Deputy Minister Ulrik Gregersen GEUS

Jørn Skov Nielsen - Deputy Minister Ulrik Gregersen - GEUS Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland www. bmp. gl bmp@gh. gl Phone: +299 346 800 Fax: +299 324 302

Is oil present in greenland?

Licence calls in Greenland • Greenland has experienced a boom in oil exploration in 2006 and 2007 • More than 100. 000 km 2 offshore West Greenland are now covered by exploration and exploitation licences The future licence call offshore NW & NE Greenland – the so-called KANUMAS areas April 21 2008 AAPG Convention Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland

Disko West licensing round 2006 and 2007 Licence area Area was divided into 8 licence blocks comprising 92, 228 km²

Disko West licensing area - present situation In 2007/08 6 (7 th on the way) hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation licences were granted to: Cairn Energy PLC, NUNAOIL Exxon. Mobil, Chevron, DONG, NUNAOIL Husky, Exxon. Mobil, NUNAOIL Husky, NUNAOIL Block 8 is applied for by PA Resources The future licence call offshore NW & NE Greenland – the so-called KANUMAS areas April 21 2008 AAPG Convention Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland

Exploration & exploitation licences in SW Greenland En. Cana and Cairn Energy PLC have 2 exploration and exploitation licences offshore Nuuk in West 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 April 21 2008 AAPG Convention Cairn Energy PLC has been granted 2 licences in the open door area offshore SW Greenland. Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland

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 April 21 2008 AAPG Convention Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland

KANUMAS preference area NW Greenland (~125. 000 km 2) is very important as a northward extension of the Disko West 2006/2007 licence call area. NE Greenland (~150. 000 km 2) 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 April 21 2008 AAPG Convention Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland

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

Distribution of Itilli oil derived from marine shale of presumed Cretaceous age

Conceptual play types in the Melville Bay area Giant structures Lower Paleoc. source Cenoman. -Turon. source Whittaker et al. 1997

500 ms MM TC BMP 00 -209 line

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

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)

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 (Statoil. Hydro 2006, 2007, TGS-Nopec 2007)

Main structural elements from Hamann et al. 2005

USGS Asssesment 2007 Total Conventional Resources in NE Greenland Mean Liquids 17 BB Gas 86 TCF Total 31 BBOE

Baffin Bay and North East Greenland by TGSNopec

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 future licence call offshore NW & NE Greenland – the so-called KANUMAS areas April 21 2008 AAPG Convention The magenta line indicates the long-term median from 1979 to 2000. Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland

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 1950 s. 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 April 21 2008 AAPG Convention Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Government of Greenland

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

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

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

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