Alaskan North Slope Petroleum System Studies

Baseline Resolution, Inc. study

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-324 Alaskan North Slope Petroleum Systems (2003) By L.B. Magoon, P.G. Lillis, K.J. Bird, C. Lampe, and K.E. Peters : Six North Slope petroleum systems are identified, described, and mapped using oil-to-oil and oil-to-source rock correlations, including: a) a southern system involving the Kuna-Lisburne source rock unit that was active during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous; b) two western systems involving source rock in the Kingak-Blankenship, and GRZ-lower Torok source rock units that were active during the Albian; and c) three eastern systems involving the Shublik-Otuk, Hue Shale and Canning source rock units that were active during the Cenozoic.

Masterson, W. D., 2001, Petroleum Filling History of Central Alaskan North Slope Fields: Ph.D. thesis, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas (May 2001), 159 p. (PDF, 1.25MB) The petroleum systems filling history of the central Alaskan North Slope was reconstructed in this thesis with burial history models that were calibrated with source rock and oil geochemistry in the area surrounding the Prudhoe Bay, Kuparuk, West Sak, Pt. McIntyre, Tarn, and Alpine Fields.

IES Alaska North Slope 4D Multiclient Petroleum Systems Model & Exploration Risk Assessment Study The Alaska North Slope (ANS) 4D Project comprises a 4 D Petroleum Systems modeling and exploration risk assessment study of the Alaska North Slope.  The parties to the ANS 4D Project are the USGS Energy Group within the Earth Surface Processes Team and IES Integrated Exploration Systems, which provides PetroMod's advanced software technology and services for exploration risk and resource assessments.