Frontier basins and rural energy

Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1600

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  Frontier basin studies

• Parent Project:

  Energy Resources Section projects

• Status:

  Ongoing

• Description:

  DGGS, in collaboration with the Alaska Division of Oil & Gas (DOG), has responded Alaska's energy challenges by reviewing publicly available data on sedimentary basins throughout Alaska to identify basins whose geology suggests significant natural gas potential.

• Project Date(s):

  1999 - present

• Primary Contact:

  Herriott, Trystan M.

• DGGS section:

  Energy Resources

• Alternate Url:

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• Project Participants:

• Active Related Sub-Projects:

  • • Nenana and Susitna Basins, natural gas potential - (2005)

• Completed/Inactive Related Sub-Projects:

  • • Yukon Flats Basin - (2001)
  • • Holitna Basin - (1983)

Publications

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SR 66

Swenson, R.F., Wartes, M.A., LePain, D.L., and Clough, J.G., 2012, Fossil fuel and geothermal energy sources for local use in Alaska: Summary of available information: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Special Report 66, 144 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:3,700,000. https://doi.org/10.14509/24264

PIR 2005-5

Meyer, J.F., 2005, Principal facts for gravity data collected in the northern Susitna basin area, southcentral Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2005-5, 12 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/7186

PIR 2003-2

Meyer, J.F., and Boggess, P.L., 2003, Principal facts for gravity data collected in the Copper River basin area, southcentral Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2003-2, 12 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/2944

PIR 2003-3

Meyer, J.F., and Boggess, P.L., 2003, Principal facts for gravity data collected in the Susitna area, southcentral Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2003-3, 13 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/2945