PRESENTATION SUMMARY- TEAM UNIVERSIY PAMPLONA, COLOMBIA

Yulitza Parada, Jennifer Cárdenas, Brayant Suarez, Daniela Peña y Maria

Alejandra Azcarate.

The Alaskan North Slope (ANS) is a Mesozoic and Late Cenozoic foreland basin
that extends the full width of the north slope of Alaska located on the northern edge
of the Brooks Range. It is bordered to the south by the Brooks Range, a thrust-
faulted orogenic mountain belt that is an extension of the Canadian Rockies. The
northern boundary of the basin roughly coincides with the northern coast of Alaska,
the Beaufort Sea, where a rift shoulder that is now a high passive subsurface, the
Barrow Arch, separates the foreland basin to the south from the Canada Basin to
the North. To the west, the North Slope Basin widens offshore under the Chukchi
Sea to the northwest-trending Herald Arc and the north-trending Chukchi Shelf along
the US-U.S. boundary and Russia.
The rocks of northern Alaska feature passive margin sediments, rift-related
sediments, pelagic sediments, volcanoclastic and foreland basin deposits, ranging
in age from Upper Devonian to Cretaceous.
The seismic interpretation allowed to identify Highstand System Tract (HST),
Transgressive System Tract (T.S.T), Lowstand System Tract (L.S.T) along the basin.
It was also possible to observe channels, clinoforms and gas chimneys through
which the hydrocarbon migrated. In addition, the presence of anticlines in the Torok
Formation is observed, which would be a possible trap for hydrocarbons.
The depositional environments in the sub-basin allowed the sedimentation of rocks
with hydrocarbon potential such as shale, sandstone, siltstone, limestone (source
rock) identified in the Hue Shale, Pebble Shale Unit, Kuparuk Formation, Kingak
Shale and Shublik Formation being the main source rock. Sandstones and shale
(reservoir) in Torok Formation behaving towards the top as (Seal).
A 1D model was made in the petromod software in which the source rock formations
and the different formations that play the role of reservoir rock and seal rock were
identified. On the other hand, the timing was identified, thanks to seismic
interpretation and petrophysics with which the stratigraphic trap was determined.