Recommend12 Mar 2019 18:25
Ignoring the ramping & deramping the guessing of buys and sells and have another read over this.
Posted by Arktic1970 on Hot copper Otto Energy forum
http://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/Documents/ResourceEvaluation/20180521_DiscovThinking_Decker.pdf
If you want to learn more about the geology of the Nanushuk - Torok play use this link to download Paul Decker's 31 slide presentation.
This is probably the best summary of regional geological data available. Slide 17 explains why the Nanushuk wasn't explored sooner. From my perspective, why look for oil elsewhere when you have already bagged an elephant that needs to be developed (i.e., Prudhoe Bay Oil Field). Now that the elephant's productivity has waned, hunters have looked elsewhere for another elephant. Although not one huge reservoir like Prudhoe, the Nanushuk may prove to have just as much oil as Prudhoe more widely distributed in several different cliniforms. Of course, the only truth serum in this business is the drill bit. Time (and the drill bit) will tell the story.
If you're a glutton for data, you can use the references contained in Decker's PPT slides to find public domain USGS reports that go into much greater detail about all of these plays. David Houseknecht of the USGS has written some of the most important technical reports about the Nanushuk.
If you look at slide 8, you can see the cross-section from south (on the left side of the side) to north (to the right) of the Nanushuk and Torok. To the south, you can see how the Nanushuk comes to surface near the Brooks Range. To the north, you can see how the deposition drops off the Beaufort Shelf beyond the mouth of the Colville River. It's just one big 3D jigsaw puzzle that was created over millions of years by the same forces that are creating today's sandy marine floors, river deltas, etc. Fascinating stuff - even for a non-geologist.
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