West Greenland–East Canada assessment

The USGS 2023 assessment, published July 9, 2025, estimates mean undiscovered, technically recoverable resources of 7.8 billion barrels of oil and 91.9 trillion cubic feet of gas across the West Greenland–East Canada Province. The province spans both Greenland and Canada.1

USGS offshore petroleum assessment

Separate assessed province1

The 2007 USGS East Greenland Rift Basins assessment estimated about 31.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent in undiscovered conventional oil, gas and natural-gas liquids. Its oil component is about 8.9 billion barrels. Most assessed potential is offshore. Jameson Land and its subvolcanic extension were not quantitatively assessed in this total.2–4

Documented connections

USGS offshore petroleum assessment →Separate assessed province1

Sources and documents
  1. USGS: West Greenland–East Canada, 2023 assessment published July 9, 2025
  2. Gautier (2007), East Greenland petroleum assessment, USGS FS 2007–3077
  3. Gautier (2019), East Greenland Rift Basins, USGS Professional Paper 1824-K
  4. USGS: Circum-Arctic appraisal, Fact Sheet 2008-3049, table 1

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