For the purposes of resource assessment, a field-growth function utilized by the U.S. Minerals Management Service for U.S. offshore areas was deemed the most appropriate of those available to use for determination of ultimate recoverable reserves in the province. It is approximately 15,000 sq km in area.
All risk is negligible, and infrastructure is well established.
In the future, field sizes will be smaller than those presently discovered, and traps will be subtler structures or combination structural-stratigraphic types. Source, trap, and efficient migration routes are riskier than 20710101. It is nearly the same area as 20710101. Physical accessibility risk, due to greater water depths, is slightly increased from 20710101. Gas and oil are expected in traps created by salt flowage.