In 2008, the Yukon Geological Survey contracted Petrel Robertson Consulting Limited, of Calgary, Alberta, to undertake a conventional reservoir petrophysical assessment of wireline geophysical logs from 17 oil and gas exploration wells in the Peel Plateau and Plain exploration region of the northeastern Yukon Territory. The study was initiated to enhance the research of the hydrocarbon potential of the Peel region that had begun in 2005 with the Regional Geoscience Studies and Petroleum Potential, Peel Plateau and Plain, Northwest Territories and Yukon project, a four-year collaborative research effort among the Northwest Territories Geoscience Office, the Yukon Geological Survey (YGS), the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), and university and industry affi liates. The aim of this reservoir petrophysical assessment is to highlight specific geological formations which have the potential of hosting economic quantities of conventional hydrocarbons in the Yukon Peel region. The data presented from this report will be used to update a resource assessment of the entire Mackenzie Corridor (including the Peel region), as part of the GSC’s Geo-Mapping for Energy and Minerals
(GEM) 2008-2013 initiative.
