Cedar Strat, with its unprecedented Great Basin geologic database, is identifying prospects whose combined potential may exceed billions of barrels of oil.

Bruffey Basin, a Cedar Strat Piñon Play prospect, confirms the thrust belt model in the eastern Nevada portion of the Late Cretaceous Sevier thrust belt.

Thrust imbricates encountered in the well greatly improve the Piñon Range structural models.

The improved structural models are constrained with a new, proprietary survey using serial transect mapping.

This improved study provides several important exploration leads.

Origin of Improved Bruffey Basin Study

Bruffey Basin started as a lead from the Exxon Aspen well seven miles to the northeast. The Exxon Aspen well encountered Devonian thrust over Mississippian strata.

The drill site for the Bruffey Basin well was picked using reconnaissance surface geologic mapping and gravity data.

A seismic line was shot as an attempt to tie possible reflectors to a VSP survey in the well and gain insight into the structural geology of the Piñon Range.

As is becoming increasingly apparent for eastern Nevada, the conventional 2D seismic survey yielded no useful reflectors and provided no additional insight into the structural geology of the range.

Clarifying Confusing Geological Structures

Balanced, restorable structural cross sections resulting from a serial transect mapping survey subsequent to drilling the well at Bruffey Basin reveal that much of the Piñon Range is made up of a series of thrust imbricates.

Restoration of the cross sections resolves confusing Paleozoic stratigraphic relationships that make no depositional sense without a compressional tectonic model.

Cedar Strat identifies all of its Great Basin oil & gas prospects using extensive proprietary and commercial geological and geophysical data. Cedar Strat has engaged Cordillera Resources, Inc. to refine the geological knowledge underlying Cedar Strat's prospects through serial transect mapping.

Cedar Strat's prospects are best pursued by sophisticated investors, the Oil & Gas Industry, and those entities or individuals who are knowledgeable of the risks inherent in oil & gas exploration.

Offer to Great Basin Operators!

Cedar Strat offers a complimentary well study to any operator drilling in the Great Basin — a $90K value!

Thrust belts and associated foreland basins provide a quarter of the earth's known oil reserves.

A large volume of these reserves is found where the western North American Cordillera coincides with organic-rich hydrocarbon source rocks, including the Mississippian Antler foreland basin of western Utah and eastern Nevada.

Dr. Alan Chamberlain, Chief Geologist and CEO of Cedar Strat Corp., believes the Antler foreland basin contains enough organics to generate trillions of barrels of oil.

Dr. Chamberlain bases his belief on results from a major source rock study being conducted in eastern Nevada, past production success in Nevada, and current producing wells in western Utah.

Dr. Chamberlain calls on all parties serious about energy independence in the USA to lobby for a modern, large-scale, public, “exploration-grade” survey of the Great Basin's hydrocarbon reserves.

Traps and Seeps

As with thrust belts worldwide, some oil is trapped in giant thrust structures. Typically, oil seeps occur above the giant structures — except in Nevada where a blanket of Oligocene volcanic rocks and detritus buried and sealed the oil seeps.

Some of these concealed Nevada oil seeps, including the most prolific North American onshore flowing oil well for ten years, are unconformity-related, commercial grade oil accumulations.

Data from modern, private geological studies indicate a lacustrine paleogeographical environment for the Great Basin, contrary to the long-held belief of a marine paleogeography for the region.

Great Basin Lacustrine Source Rock

Cedar Strat conducted the most extensive, proprietary source rock study to date of the Great Basin, at the request of several major companies.

The study reveals that the Mississippian Antler foreland basin comprises transgressive and regressive lacustrine sequences.

Stigmaria root zones, with rootlets penetrating bedding planes, and palynomorph biostratigraphy from oil wells and Cedar Strat's measured sections, confirm that the regressive sequences are mostly organic-rich lacustrine shales or lakebeds.

Some of the hydrocarbon source rocks are so organically rich that they bleed live oil!

These facts about a lacustrine origin for Great Basin source rock contrast sharply with the deeply entrenched, unproven, marine theory.

National Needs Cry Out for New Action

Exploration in the Great Basin is too often driven by unproven geologic hypotheses and assumptions — like the deep-marine turbidite theory — influenced by old, woefully inadequate public geological data.

Regressive Mississippian lacustrine or lakebed shales are the source of the 50 million barrels of oil produced from Nevada's commercial oil seeps.

Regressive Mississippian lacustrine shales also are found where the eastern edge of the Antler foreland basin coincides with the eastern edge of the Cretaceous Cordillera thrust belt — the source for the giant Covenant field in central Utah.

The eastern Nevada portion of the Cordillera thrust belt has yet to be exploited to its greatest potential, due in part to widely-held beliefs of a deep-marine origin for source rock — beliefs founded on old, erroneous geological studies!

Furthermore, land use policies, such as wilderness protection zones being established in prospective oil and gas producing areas, are being made in the absence of up-to-date geological knowledge.

America loses its energy independence as it depletes mature domestic oil provinces, thinking there are no more reserves of sufficient size to tap domestically.

America would be well-served to conduct a public “exploration-grade” Great Basin geological survey without delay. It has been over 100 years since anything analogous was conducted in the western US.

Such a broad-scale survey using modern exploration methods and analysis techniques will likely result in the discovery of enough domestic energy reserves to buy the United States of America the time it needs to develop commercially viable alternative energy sources.