Canada’s Nova Scotia and Morocco partner to search for oil

Canadian maritime province Nova Scotia is teaming up with Morocco in a bid to find petroleum riches, says Canada’s CTV News on Monday 20th of August. The two lands were considered were one 200 million years ago, before they broke apart.

A group of researchers in each territory will be conducting a study to find offshore petroleum resources. In Morocco, the Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines signed a memorandum of understanding with the Offshore Energy Research Association of Nova Scotia.

According to the Nova Scotia association the study «will compare recently collected seismic and geochemical data to better characterize the common geological elements of the Scotian and Moroccan conjugate margins».

Meanwhile, Morocco will be reconstructing images from 200 million years.

«The parties agreed that a comparative study of petroleum systems along both coastal margins will provide direct benefit to Morocco and Nova Scotia», the province's offshore association said in a press release on Monday.

«The work will allow a more comprehensive integration of scientific and exploration-related results on either side of the Atlantic», concluded the same source.