The Little Chicago Prospect is an oil and natural gas deposit on the Mackenzie River in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. For census purposes Statistics Canada shows it being located in the unorganized part of Region 2, Northwest Territories, and as of the 2021 census, its population was 0, unchanged from 2016.[2]
Little Chicago Prospect | |
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Oil and natural gas deposit | |
  Little Chicago  Little Chicago | |
| Coordinates: 67°12′00″N 130°15′08″W / 67.20000°N 130.25222°W[1] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Northwest Territories |
| Postal code | X0E 1L0 |
The closest populated community is Fort Good Hope, about 127 km (79 mi) to the southeast, and it is situated 917 km (570 mi) northwest of Yellowknife, the capital of Northwest Territories, and 3,957 km (2,459 mi) away from Ottawa, the capital of Canada.[3]
Petroleum resources
editIn 2007, Kodiak Energy completed a survey of the petroleum resources along the Mackenzie River in the Little Chicago area and concluded that there could be up to 1 billion barrels of oil and up to 600 billion cubic feet of natural gas.[4][5] The project was a part of the planned Mackenzie Valley Pipeline that was scrapped in 2017.[6][7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Little Chicago". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
- ^ "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Region 2, Unorganized, Unorganized (NO) [Census subdivision], Northwest Territories". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. 8 March 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
- ^ "Little Chicago, Canada - Facts and information on Little Chicago - Canada.Places-in-the-world.com". canada.places-in-the-world.com. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ "Kodiak Energy's 'Little Chicago Prospect' in Northern Canada Shows Big Potential". Natural Gas Intelligence. 21 March 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ "N.W.T. oil, gas exploration program targets Little Chicago". CBC.ca. 22 February 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ "Kodiak Petroleum Signs Major NWT Project in the Mackenzie River Valley". www.rigzone.com. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ Strong, Walter (28 December 2017). "Mackenzie Valley pipeline project officially one for the history books". CBC.ca. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
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