This Special Paper was conceived as a companion volume to a Symposium held as part of the 2001 GAC-MAC Annual Meeting held in St. John's, Newfoundland. Papers within the volume review the Petroleum System of the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, and the potential geo-hazards that impact both exploration and development projects in the offshore environment of eastern Newfoundland. The volume also examines some of the important stratigraphic aspects of the Jeanne d'Arc reservoir systems, the more significant heavy oil occurrences, and how fault and fracture studies are being employed to better understand reservoir performance. The volume concludes with a case study that establishes the utility of an outcrop analogue in improving the reservoir modeling of the highly productive, main Hibernia Field reservoir.