Nalcor contracts Ikon for shelf, deepwater pore pressure studies

Offshore staff

CALGARY, Canada –Nalcor Energy Oil and Gas Inc. has contracted Ikon Science Ltd. a project to identify the regional pore pressure distribution in the offshore shelf and deepwaters of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The project extends from the northern tip of Labrador to the Flemish Pass basin. The data set includes 30 wells.

This study, which will be available to the global oil and gas industry upon completion, is one of several ongoing Nalcor geoscience initiatives to advance the exploration and future development of Newfoundland and Labrador’s frontier petroleum basins.

Nalcor Energy is Newfoundland and Labrador’s Crown Energy Co.

11/02/2012