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Best Kept Secrets in America Alan K. Chamberlain PhD President and Chief Geologist Cedar Strat Corp Las Vegas, NV 89110 702 443 3723 [email protected]

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Page 1: Best Kept Secrets in Americaamericafirstenergy.org/.../12/Lunch-Keynote-Chamberlain.pdfBest Kept Secrets in America Alan K. Chamberlain PhD President and Chief Geologist Cedar Strat

Best Kept Secrets in America

Alan K. Chamberlain PhD

President and Chief Geologist

Cedar Strat Corp

Las Vegas, NV 89110

702 443 3723

[email protected]

Page 2: Best Kept Secrets in Americaamericafirstenergy.org/.../12/Lunch-Keynote-Chamberlain.pdfBest Kept Secrets in America Alan K. Chamberlain PhD President and Chief Geologist Cedar Strat

Grant Canyon Nevada

4,000 BOPD X Ten Years

Page 3: Best Kept Secrets in Americaamericafirstenergy.org/.../12/Lunch-Keynote-Chamberlain.pdfBest Kept Secrets in America Alan K. Chamberlain PhD President and Chief Geologist Cedar Strat

America’s oil and gas shales

Page 4: Best Kept Secrets in Americaamericafirstenergy.org/.../12/Lunch-Keynote-Chamberlain.pdfBest Kept Secrets in America Alan K. Chamberlain PhD President and Chief Geologist Cedar Strat

The Great Basin oil shales are thicker

and richer than other age-equivalent

American oil shales

Page 5: Best Kept Secrets in Americaamericafirstenergy.org/.../12/Lunch-Keynote-Chamberlain.pdfBest Kept Secrets in America Alan K. Chamberlain PhD President and Chief Geologist Cedar Strat

The Mississippian Antler Basin contains sufficient

TOC to generate Trillions of barrels of oil

Page 6: Best Kept Secrets in Americaamericafirstenergy.org/.../12/Lunch-Keynote-Chamberlain.pdfBest Kept Secrets in America Alan K. Chamberlain PhD President and Chief Geologist Cedar Strat

The Great Basin

is part of the

Western

American

Cordillera or

mountain chain

that extends from

Alaska to the tip

of South America

Page 7: Best Kept Secrets in Americaamericafirstenergy.org/.../12/Lunch-Keynote-Chamberlain.pdfBest Kept Secrets in America Alan K. Chamberlain PhD President and Chief Geologist Cedar Strat

Western

American

Cordillera

Leading edge

of Cordillera

Thrust Belt

Page 8: Best Kept Secrets in Americaamericafirstenergy.org/.../12/Lunch-Keynote-Chamberlain.pdfBest Kept Secrets in America Alan K. Chamberlain PhD President and Chief Geologist Cedar Strat

Cedar Strat, using its treasure map, has identified about 165

structures west of the leading edge of the Cordillera thrust

belt that could contain billions of barrels of oil, trillions of

cubic feet of natural gas, and tens of billions of barrels of

water

Page 9: Best Kept Secrets in Americaamericafirstenergy.org/.../12/Lunch-Keynote-Chamberlain.pdfBest Kept Secrets in America Alan K. Chamberlain PhD President and Chief Geologist Cedar Strat

Great Basin Oil > Middle Eastern Oil

10,000% ROI

Jurassic sandstone cored structures

containing billions of barrels of fluid

Page 10: Best Kept Secrets in Americaamericafirstenergy.org/.../12/Lunch-Keynote-Chamberlain.pdfBest Kept Secrets in America Alan K. Chamberlain PhD President and Chief Geologist Cedar Strat

The Hunt and

Grace wells and

exposures of

Jurassic

sandstone beneath

Paleozoic

carbonates at Red

Rock and Muddy

Mountains confirm

that mountains are

cored by Jurassic

reservoir rocks

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Great

Basin

is near

Pacific

Ports

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Colorado River erosion reveals mountain cores

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Cedar Strat has the only digital

Great Basin stratigraphic database

“It would take

Exxon several

decades and

several billion

dollars to duplicate

Cedar Strat’s data”

Elite Exxon Team

• Data

• Expertise

• Leases

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Great Basin anticlines >100BBO Ghawar, Saudi Arabia 65BBO

500 meter contours

50 meter contours

Great Basin

USA

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Oil and Gas Financial Journal

January, 2017 NAPE issue

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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[email protected]

www.cedarstrat.com 702 443 3723

CEDAR STRAT CORP