GM 28434 OIL AND GAS RESOURCES OF QUEBEC PERMIT 514 OIL AND GAS RESOURCES OF QUEBEC PERMIT 514.'
PREPARED FOR
DEVELOPMENT AIGLE D`OR
CALGARY, ALBERTA
T . H. CLARK GEOLOGIST
MONTREAL
APRIL 30, 1972
Ministère des Richesse:', Naturelles, Québec SERVICE 9E LA DOC:.ï;!lb:i"N IAl'WN TECHNIQUE
Date: No GM: ~.'> TABLE OF CONTENTS
GEOLOGY
INTRODUCTION 1 SETTING ROCK EXPOSURES 2 WELL LOGS 3
STRATIGRAPHY INTRODUCTION 5 POTSDAM SANDSTONE 6 BEEKMANTOWN GROUP 7 CHAZY GROUP 7 BLACK RIVER GROUP 8 TRENTON GROUP 8 UTICA SHALE 10 LORRAINE SHALE 11 IGNEOUS ROCKS 11
STRUCTURE REGIONAL SETTING 12 FAULTS 12 FOLDS 16 IGNEOUS ROCK BODY PROBLEM 16
HYDROCARBONS
KNOWN OCCURRENCES PETROLEUM 17 NATURAL GAS 17
POSSIBILITIES OF FINDING COMMERCIAL QUANTITIES STRATIGRAPHIC TRAPS 20 POROSITY AND PERMEABILITY 22 STRUCTURAL TRAPS 23
RECOMMENDATIONS APPENDICES
APPENDIX A ANALYSES OF LOCAL ROCKS 27
APPENDIX B ANALYSES OF LOCAL NATURAL GAS 30
APPENDIX C LOGS OF LOCAL WELLS 31
REF ERE N C E S
ILLUSTRATIONS To follow p.
Figure 1 Map showing location of PR 514 and of wells mentioned in this report. 4
2 Logs of 4 deep wells to show general stratigraphie succession. 6
3 Isopach map of the Potsdam sandstone. 6
4 Isopach map of Deschambault (Lower Trenton) Formation. 8
5 Logs of most of the Oil Selections wells. 14
6 Plan to determine stratigraphie position of most of the Oil Selections 5-33 wells. 14
7 Determination of probable fault pattern in area of Oil Selections 5-33 wells. 14
8 Total gravity map of the region surrounding the eastern end of PR 514. 15
on page Table 1 Gas wells in the Cabane Ronde area. 18
Maps in pocket. Outline of PR 514 is shown on all maps, as far as possible.
1. Geological map of PR 514 and immediately surrounding land showing geological boundaries, structural features, location of logged wells, etc.
2. Quebec Department of Natural Resources Map 1407. Geology of the St. Lawrence Lowlands of Quebec.
Canada Mines and Technical Surveys. National Topographic series.
3. Laurentides West. 31 H/13 West Edition Jan. 1971.
4. Laurentides East. 31 H/13 East Edition Jan. 1971.
5. Vercheres. 31 H/14 Edition Jan. 1971
Maps 3, 4 and 5 have the outline of PR 514 traced upon them. 1.
OIL AND GAS RESOURCES OF QUEBEC PERMIT 514
GEOLOGY
SETTING. Permit 514 .(referred to below as PR 514) lies en-
tirely within L'Assomption county. It extends from the town of L'Assomption
westward for 18 miles to parts of the boundary between L'Assomption and
Terrebonne counties. Topographically the area is almost completely flat
(See Maps 2, 3, 4), and ranges in elevation from 50 feet above sea level
in the eastern part to 200 feet in the northern and western parts. The
Achigan river traverses most of the area, entering it just below St. Lin
at an elevation of about 175 feet above sea level and joining L'Assomption
river near the town of that name at about 75 feet above sea level. The
latter river leaves the area of PR 514 only a few feet below that elevation.
Other streams, in particular St. Esprit and Mascouche rivers, flow for only
a few miles within the area's boundaries. None of these streams is
navigable to anything larger than a canoe or rowboat.
There is only one feature that could be called a hill. Three
miles south of Pont Mousseau there is an elliptical area nearly a mile
long and half as wide with a summit 50 feet above the surrounding flat plain, and consists of what is probably modified ground moraine. The southern
boundary of this area cuts across the central part of this hill.
Almost all of the area lies within the band of Trenton Limestone as shown on Quebec Department of Natural Resources Map 1407 (Map 2, in pocket). The extreme eastern tip, consisting of somewhat less than half a square mile, is shown on that map to be underlain by Utica and Lorraine shales, although the latter formations do not outcrop here. The drift cover 2. is thick, especially near L'Assomption where it is on the average 100 feet
in thickness.
The average size of farms here is about 90-100 acres although
there is a tendency to increase the size with governmental assistance.
Most farms are narrow, rarely more than 1000 feet frontage, and usually go
back to range boundaries about one mile from the road. Ordinarily the
distal one quarter or rarely one third of a prosperous farm is woodland,
used almost wholly for domestic wood supply. The pattern of cultivated
land versus woodland is well shown on the topographic map in the pocket to
this report. All farms have service roads capable of supporting farm
vehicles running the length of the farm; these roads are rarely fit for farm
use before May first. The chief products are both natural and industrial
milk mostly trucked out of the county; cheese factories are few. Mixed
crops include wheat, oats, barley, both feed and silage corn. Truck
farming is an increasing occupation. A fair proportion of most farms is
given over to pastures.
ROCK EXPOSURES. Outcrops, all of Trenton limestone (except a
small occurrence of Utica shale and of igneous rock at L'Epiphanie), are
restricted almost wholly to river banks, and occur at L'Epiphanie only.
1) Along Achigan river at St. Roch de l'Achigan (Laurentides East map, in
pocket), where good exposures of the Tetreauville Formation (Upper Trenton)
can be seen for a mile and a half along the river banks. 2) A part of a
continuous outcrop of Deschambault limestone (Lower Trenton) a mile southeast
of St. Lin (Laurentides East map, in pocket) where, at the village itself
(Laurentides West map, in pocket), Black River beds outcrop beneath the
highway bridge, and Lower Trenton limestone continues downstream for a 3. mile, just crossing the western limit of PR 514. 3) Good exposures of
Tetreauville limestone (Upper Trenton) along St. Esprit river at and for a couple of miles downstream from Lawrence (Laurentides East map,
in pocket). 4) Along Achigan river at L'Epiphanie (Vercheres map, in
pocket), where Tetreauville limestone is overlain by Utica shale, and in a nearby quarry a thick sill of basic rock occurs close to the contact.
5) Small outcrops of Tetreauville limestone 2 miles north of L'Epiphanie
on St. Esprit river.
To be sure, beyond the limits of this permit additional outcrops
are known at Ste. Anne des Plaines (Bruchési, on Laurentides West map, in
pocket), St. Esprit (Laurentides East map, in pocket), Mascouche Rapids
(ibid.), in fields between St. Alexis (ibid.) and St. Jacques (ibid.), and
fine exposures along the Ouareau, Rouge, St. Pierre, and Assomption rivers.
These are sufficient in quantity, position, and nature to allow a dis-
tributional geological map to be drawn covering the area of PR 514 and
surrounding territories.
WELL LOGS. In addition there is a body of information from logs
of wells within and near PR 514. The locations of these are shown on the
geological map accompanying this report, and the logs are given in a
following appendix. Their names are given below, preceded by the number
assigned to them by the Quebec Department of Natural Resources as recorded
in Publication S-75, Pts 1 and 2, and subsequent additional sheets. Wells
included in Part 1 (less than 500' in depth) have- their numbers ringed in
this present report. Others, included in Part 2 (more than 500' deep),
have plain numbers. 4.
46 L'Assomption Experimental Farm Well
58 Quonto-International No. 1 Mascouche
9OÀ Oil Selections 1 In the text the QDNR number 86 Oil Selections 2 is usually preceded by the symbol #. 9 L' Oil Selections 3
92, Oil Selections 4
87 Oil Selections 5 For ready reference they are shown in Figure 1. 88 Oil Selections 6
89 Oil Selections 7
90 Oil Selections 8
91 Oil Selections 9
92 Oil Selections 11
93 Oil Selections 18
94 Oil Selections 20
96 Oil Selections 22
97 Oil Selections 23
98 Oil Selections 24
99 Oil Selections 29
100 Oil Selections 30
101 Oil Selections 31
102 Oil Selections 32
103 Oil Selections 33
141 Quebec Natural Gas No. 1 l'Epiphanie
142 Quebec Natural Gas No. 2 l'Epiphanie
144 Louvicourt No. 5 l'Assomption
145 Louvicourt No. 7 l'Assomption
151 Louvicourt Metal No. 8 l'Assomption
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106 St-Ours 105
St-Lin
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COURNOYER St-C ales ais-de-Sales 84 85
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Map of part of QDNR map 1555 to show location of PR 514, and
nt Yi of wells mentioned in the text (red - more than 500' deep; Hilaire-Est blue, less than 500' deep). The wells are identified by their
QDNR numbers.
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STRATIGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION. The supra-basement rocks recognized in PR 514
belong to the following groups. The approximate range of thickness for
each is given in feet.
Quaternary Glacial and post-glacial sands, etc.
Lower Cretaceous Monteregian intrusives
Thickness in feet minimum maximum
Lower Lorraine 200 200 Utica 300 400 Upper 400 - 500 Trenton Middle 150 - 300 Lower 70 - 100 Black River 50 - 75 Chazy 250 - 500 Beekmantown 500 - 800 Cambrian Potsdam 500 - 1000 Totals 2420 3875
Quonto International No. 1 Mascouche 3248' Oil Selections No. 6 (only 60' of Potsdam to bottom of hole) 2545'
Of the above units, in addition to the overburden and igneous
rocks, only the Lower, Middle and Upper Trenton and the Utica are exposed.
All, however, have been cut by drill holes, as is shown in the log of Oil
Selections No. 6. In general increases in thickness are in the direction
of the axis of the Chambly-Fortierville syncline, but two prominent ex-
ceptions are the Potsdam and Beekmantown units, both of which pinch out toward the northeast, and neither reaches the St. Maurice river (55 miles to the northeast).
Each of the sedimentary groups is described below. 6.
POTSDAM SANDSTONE. Exposures of this formation are unknown within the limits of PR 514, but are abundant in the western part of the
Laurentides map area, and its presence 2 miles northeast of Ste. Julienne is indicated, in what is probably glacial drift, by a great abundance of large (up to 15 feet thick) blocks of this sandstone associated with only a few and smaller blocks of Precambrian. In well logs (Figure 2) it is recorded in the Quonto-International Mascouche No. 1 well (#58), and the
Oil Selections No. 6 well (#88), as well as in the Louvicourt Metal No. 8 l'Assomption well (#151). It is reasonable to expect that it will be found at the base of the Paleozoic section in any well drilled within this area.
It is divided into two formations. The lower, known as the Covey Hill
Formation, is conglomeratic at its base with boulders up to a foot in thickness, though pebbles up to an inch thick are most generally seen. The bulk of this member is a sandstone composed largely of quartz and possesses an all pervading matrix which prevents any but a minimal porosity to exist.
The remainder, the Chateauguay Formation, is a nearly pure quartz sandstone, containing very little matrix, with a resulting porosity which has allowed it to act as an aquifer in certain regions west of PR 514. Isopach studies of the Lowland region show that this upper part of the Potsdam sandstone
(Theresa and Cairnside members of the Chateauguay Formation) should be
100 feet thick in the northwestern part of the area increasing to 600 feet in the southeastern parts (Figure 3). Data are not abundant enough to allow the construction of an isopach map of the lower part of the Potsdam (Covey
Hill Formation), but it might range from a few hundred in the northwest to possibly one thousand feet in the southeast part of PR 514. In any probing for hydrocarbons the upper two or three hundred feet of Potsdam sandstone should be carefully scrutinized, and drilling should be carried down to Figure 2
QDNR QDNR QDNR QDNR 58 88 103 31 Surface --- Overburden
he scouc - 500' 1 Ma Upper ~re1?t°n al No. ion I 1000' t terna -In
to -- 1500' uon Q
--- 2000'
Upper Por sd Qm
LOwer Potsdam 2500' 2655'
3000'
Precambrian 3531' 3500' Logs of four deep wells to show the general stratigraphic succession. Horizontal scale 1" : 1 mile Figure 3
ST. LAWRENCE LOWLANDS OP QUEBEC
ISOBACMS OP TIM TIMRESA MEMBER
OF TIM CHATEAUGUAY FORMATION
IN FEET 0 ,o 2P
SCAIrE IN MILES
ST. LAWRENCE LOWLAOS OP QUEBEC
1St:WACHS OF TIM CAIRNSIDE MENDER
OF THE CHATEAUGUAY FORMATION
IN FEET
0 10 20
SCALE IN MILES 7.
the Precambrian basement so that any possible "granite wash" can be tested.
BEEKMANTOWN GROUP: (BEAUHARNOIS DOLOMITE FORMATION). This is a
light to medium gray rock nearly devoid of fossils, dense to crystalline
texture relieved in some beds by an abundance of vugs up to a few inches
across, filled partially or completely with carbonates. Some of these vugs
contain smears or complete layers of albertite or similar hydrocarbon
derivative. The vugs never produce an intercavity porosity and the dolomite
cannot be regarded with favor as a container of oil or gas. The rock could,
however, act as a roof-trap if appropriate porous structures in the under-
lying Potsdam Sandstone should exist. In thickness it probably ranges between
800 feet in the west to 500 feet in the east (Louvicourt Metal No. 8
l'Assomption (#151), 531 feet) .
CRAZY GROUP: LAVAL LIMESTONE FORMATION AND JOLIETTE MEMBER. Rocks
of this group do not outcrop in PR 514, but are known within a few miles of
Ste. Julienne (Laurentides East map, in pocket). No contacts with the
Beauharnois dolomite are known. At the base is a pure quartz sandstone
(the Joliette Member), well shown in drainage ditches near St. Alexis
Station, and a few miles further east in the bed of Assomption river at
Joliette (See Map 1407 in pocket). The percentage of quartz grains, for
the most part rounded and frosted, in this member ranges from 50 to 99%.
No sharp boundary has been recognized between the Joliette sandstone and
the overlying Laval rocks. It probably nowhere exceeds 50 feet in
thickness. The main part of the Laval Formation consists largely of fairly
coarsely crystalline limestone usually weathering buff in patches,
probably in response to high magnesia content. Fine-grained and very 8. coarse-grained types occur sparingly. Fossils are common throughout. At
Ste. Anne des Plaines it contains a small coral and bryozoan reef of the barrier type, but no indications of petroleum within it or in its flanking beds are known. It ranges in thickness from 250 feet to 500 feet, with a regional thinning toward the northeast although such thinning cannot be demonstrated within PR 514. The abundance of buff and brown weathering patches and beds indicates an incomplete dolomitization of the rock. This may have led to a porosity not apparent in surface outcrops but which might be of importance in depth. Especially is the porous and pervious Joliette sandstone of interest in providing a potential, though limited in volume, hydrocarbon reservoir.
BLACK RIVER GROUP: PAMELIA DOLOMITE, LOWVILLE LIMESTONE AND
LERAY LIMESTONE FORMATIONS. These formations, rarely more than 75 feet in aggregate thickness, are of little importance stratigraphically or economically. They are nowhere known to contain or to yield hydrocarbons.
TRENTON GROUP: DESCHAMBAULT, MONTREAL AND TETREAUVILLE LIMESTONE
FORMATIONS.
The Deschambault Limestone (Lower Trenton) is pretty regularly 70 to 100 feet thick here (Figure 4). It is a crystallized bio-fragmental rock made up in large part of crinoid plates and columnals worn and rounded by current action before final deposition. Recognizable fossils are common in certain beds. One of the most important features of this rock is the tendency toward vugginess. This occurs usually in coarse-grained beds up to 30 inches thick. Here and there residual hydrocarbon material lines the cavities. Of more importance is the fact that, save for the Tetreauville 90 100 o \ ~' ~~„~`--~..•-~.-.~-.~ ~ ~- ~00 _. , ~ \
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Isopuch contour • interval 10 feet
• • • • 1• 11 11 50 fet t 0 5 10 15 20 25 Scale in Miles Area of PR 514 shown in red.
FIGI:i;E 4• ISOPACH MAP of the DESCHAMBAULT Ii•N (After Young, 1964) 9.
Formation, this is the only formation known actually to contain liquid petroleum. At many localities, especially at St. Marc des Carrières
(40 miles southwest of Quebec City), where it is quarried, small drops of petroleum are liberated on a freshly broken surface, spreading out over an area of several square inches. A few drops of petroleum and a fair amount of albertite-like material were found in a vein in a core taken from this rock in the Neuville district. In the Louvicourt Metal No. 8
l'Assomption well (#151) petroleum was found yielding 3 to 4 gallons per day and lasting for a couple of days. Everywhere this rock has a strong odor
of petroleum when freshly broken open. At the Beaudry quarry, Joliette, a vein of albertite six inches across was reported during the early development
of the quarry, but of which no trace remains. This rock is therefore of
great interest as a source rock, and under favorable porosity and structural
conditions could yield satisfactory amounts of oil.
The Montreal Formation (Middle Trenton) consists of various types
of dark gray limestone, dense to fine-grained crystalline, thin to thick
bedded with partings and interbeds of shale up to several inches thick.
There is little regularity in bedding. No odor of petroleum has been
noticed in this rock nor is there any intergranularity favorable to hydro-
carbon storage. Rarely is there any dolomitization, and cavities are
restricted to the interiors of fossil shells which, however, never contain
residual hydrocarbons. It is therefore of little interest as either a
source rock or a reservoir rock. In thickness it ranges from 150 to 300
feet thick.
The Tetreauville Limestone (Upper Trenton), 400 to 500 feet thick,
consists largely of a dark bluish gray, dense, argillaceous limestone in 10. beds up to 6 inches alternating with beds of shale generally about one inch thick. Bedding is pronounced and even, allowing this rock to be dis- tinguished from other Trenton formations some distance away. Very rarely are there interbeds, up to 6 inches, or crystalline organic detritus.
Here and there both geographically and stratigraphically there are develop- ments of several tens, or even scores, of feet of limestone devoid of
obvious stratification. This is what was earlier called the Terrebonne
Formation, later degraded to Member status and now considered to be merely a facies development of the typical Tetreauville. The fauna of the latter
is large in number of species, but sparse in actual occurrence. Very little
difference can be found between the faunas of the original Tetreauville and
the Terrebonne rocks. It is supposed that the Tetreauville was deposited
in a quiet environment in which continued absence of muddy detritus allowed
carbonate deposition to take place, interrupted fairly regularly by con-
tributions of mud resulting in the shale partings and interbeds. The
Terrebonne facies on the other hand was probably the result of local and
temporary conditions of turbulence, destroying most or all traces of
regular bedding. Most of the Tetreauville limestone when freshly broken
open gives off a petroleum odor, and in a few places, notably along the
north shore of Ile Jésus, droplets of liquid petroleum issue from small
( < 1/4") cavities. This formation therefore must be considered a potential
source rock, though nowhere does it possess adequate permeability or
porosity to qualify it as a reservoir rock.
THE UTICA SHALE. This consists wholly of dark gray to black
shale with a brownish streak, and gives off an odor of petroleum when
freshly broken. This last feature is more characteristic of the thicker
bedded dark gray part of the formation than of the thinner bedded black
f 11. shales. It is known to outcrop only at L'Epiphanie. Throughout, the rock is dense with no interbeds that might provide porosity and permeability.
Like the Tetreauville it must be considered a potential source rock but in itself could not function as a reservoir rock. In thickness it ranges from 300 to 400 feet.
THE LORRAINE SHALE. That part of this formation underlying the southeastern tip of PR 514 is a dark gray shale and siltstone, never black, and never with a petroleum odor. It is very thin-bedded, rarely very fossiliferous. Probably no more than 200 feet occur here, although where the complete section is known it is about 2,400 feet thick.
IGNEOUS ROCKS. Currently being quarried at L'Epiphanie, just
southwest of the village, is a basic sill, about 25 feet thick, and lying almost exactly along the Trenton-Utica contact in Achigan river a quarter
of a mile to the east. In L'Assomption Experimental Farm well (#46) igneous
rocks, presumably sills, occur within the lower Lorraine and upper Utica formations (50 feet in the former, 40 feet in the latter). In the Parent
well (# 93 ) an improbable thickness of 120 feet of igneous rock was logged
low down in the Trenton limestone. Neither in Louvicourt Metal No. 8
l'Assomption well (#151) log nor in the logs of any of the Oil Selections
wells is there mention of igneous rock. In Quebec Natural Gas No. 2
l'Epiphanie well (#142) igneous rock occurs between the basal Utica and
the overburden. It is likely that all these occurrences are related, and
if so then the sill staggers from one stratigraphie horizon to another and,
were its distribution underground better known, it might reveal itself as a
potential trap, holding hydrocarbons beneath it. 12.
STRUCTURE
REGIONAL SETTING. This area lies within the St. Lawrence Lowland
of Quebec (See Q.D.N.R. Map no. 1407, in pocket), and close to its western
border. The Lowland is floored by Upper Cambrian and Ordovician sedi-
mentary rocks which have been deformed into the elongated Chambly-
Fortierville syncline the axis of which is consistently east of the St.
Lawrence River until it crosses the latter close to Quebec City. The western
limb of the syncline, on which PR 514 is situated, is relatively simple in
structure and consists of beds dipping pretty uniformly toward the south-
east at angles of from 0 to 10°, regionally about 2°, affected here and
there with small irregularities of little regional significance. The
eastern limb, with which we are not here concerned, is characterized by a
complex structure including folds, isoclinal and overturned, thrusts, slices,
and autochthon-allochthon relationship and complications.
FAULTS. Northwest of the Lowland lies the vast area of Grenville
rocks of the Canadian Shield. The contact has been seen in but a few
localities, but enough is known to deduce that in places the Shield-Lowland
boundary is a normal stratigraphic overlap phenomenon, in others it is a fault contact. In fact, there is a series of en echelon faults (See
Q.D.N.R. Map 1407) helping to form this boundary, striking about N20°E to
N40°E; and with the downdrop, up to 1500 feet, always on the southeast side, thus making the Lowland a semi-graben. The northwestern part of this area lies a few miles from the trace of one of these faults, here named the Ste.
Julienne fault. Possibly the southwestern continuation of another of these en echelon faults, the Chicot fault, cuts across the eastern tip of the area.
No faults are actually exposed here, but their presence is 13. guaranteed by relationships in neighboring map-areas. Just northwest of
PR 514 the Ordovician rocks are in fault contact with Precambrian,
Beekmantown, and Chazy rocks along the Ste. Julienne fault. This strikes about N25"E, and the Ordovician rocks to the northwest strike N40°E to
N70"E and abut against the fault so that they are successively eliminated in stratigraphic order from north to south. Near Bissonnet the movement is of the order of 1000 feet, whereas a mile or so west of St. Lin, where
Chazy rocks are brought to lie against Chazy rocks, the movement is minimal.
On Q.D.N.R. Map 1407 the St. Jacques fault is shown as possibly continuing from the vicinity of St. Jacques southeastward to the northern boundary of this area. Whether or not this continuation can be justified, there is no evidence supporting the view that the St. Jacques fault actually occurs within the area of PR 514.
A second fault passing close to L'Epiphanie should also be eliminated. Since its proposal, and appearance on Q.D.N.R. Map 1407, the opening of a large quarry south of L'Epiphanie has shown that the Trenton-
Utica boundary is unbroken across the line of the supposed fault. Other details concerning this "fault" are given under Igneous Rocks (p. 11) and also below (p. 16).
Since the geological mapping of the Laurentides East and the
Derchères West areas were completed numerous wells have been put down within and adjacent to PR 514. Save for those drilled just outside and to the northeast of PR 514, at L'Assomption, none contributes to the identification and location of faults. Referring to Figure 2, in which the logs of four deep wells are given, there is a suggestion of some anomalous situation 14. between wells #103 and #31, but from such evidence it would be hazardous to postulate either a fault or a flexure there. Figure 5 gives the logs of most of the Oil Selections Wells. The logs of Oil Selections Nos. 1-4 are too short to indicate anything more than a southeasterly dip. The same appears to be true for Oil Selections Nos. 5-8 although there is there a record of a more flattened dip between Oil Selections Nos. 7 and
8 than between Oil Selections Nos. 5, 6, and 7. The larger group of wells, however, is more definite, and assuming a normally uniform dip toward the southeast it is obvious that Oil Selections Nos. 29 and 33 are out of step with the remainder. The locations of these wells were, for the purpose of drawing these diagrams, taken from Q.D.N.R. Map 1555. In order to arrive at more reliable conclusions, I plotted the location as given by the Q.D.N.R. in a mimeographed "WELL LIST WITH COORDINATES", of both the Oil Selections
Nos. 5-8 group and the Oil Selections Nos. 9-33 group as shown in Figures 6 and 7.
Taking the latter group first the positions of the wells were pro- jected along regional strike lines (Figure 6), upon an arbitrarily chosen base line perpendicular thereto. The intersections were then used to imply the stratigraphic order of the wells, and a correlation chart was drawn up using the top and bottom of the Utica Formation with results shown in Figure 7.
There, it is apparent that the normal down-dip inclination (i.e. toward the SE), which should be a reasonably smooth line, is broken in at least four places. The two northwestern breaks between Oil Selections Nos. 30 and 31, and Oil Selections Nos. 31 and 22, show displacements too great to be attributed to warping, and consequently faults are introduced there.
Between Oil Selections Nos. 24 and 18 the vertical drop of the top of the
Utica is 250 feet, necessitating a fault between those two wells. Similarly,
Figure 5
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'Figure 5. Logs of most of the Oil Selections Wells. Figure 6
Map of an area northeast of L'Assomption to show locations of Oil Selections wells Nos. 5-33, based on "WELL LIST WITH COORDINATES" issued by the Quebec Department of Natural Resources.
45°54' 30
31 A
45°531 29 933 22 4 23 24 2020ç,0 9 18 11 45°52' Each well position is projected along a line parallel to the regional strike upon lines AB and CD which are normal to the regional strike. The information gained is transferred to Figure 6 for structural interpretation. C - 45°51' N /1 5 `
One mile 6 0 SCALE 45°50'
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45'49' Figure_ 7
~ arnO MoN Nt CO M W.N.W. MN NN N N ~ r, E.S.E. A r-1 n 300' Utica Shale in Oil Selections wells N.E. of L'Assomption, see . line A-B, Figure 5. Oil Selections 400' .. ~~ well.numbers are given along top ti margin. Broken lines: E.S.E. dip of 1.5". 500' Black vertical lines: Utica 0 shale in core. Red lines: deduced fauls, assumed to be 600' vertical and to be striking . parallel toedding. Well num- .bers taken fiom Quebec Depart- 700' . .. ment of Natural Resources . . Publication S-75.
800' J
. 900'
l one milei 1 \ 1000' Horizontal Scale
~ CO 200'
300'- Oil Selections well numbers are . given along upper margin. N. 400'-
500'-
600
.fs 700'- ~ . ~ .
800'- ~ J Utica Shale in it Selections Wells 5, 6, 7, near L'Assomption, 9 00'- along line C-D, Figure 5. Legend, Scale, Orientat on, etc. as above . A structural in erpretation based 1000'— in part upon th upper diagram. 15. if the normal dip line be drawn southeastward from Oil Selections No. 18 and norwestward from Oil Selections No. 33 there is a discordance of more than 100 feet and a fourth fault is introduced there. Between Oil
Selections Nos. 33 and 11 there may or may not be any faults, although the line connecting the tops of the Utica is not altogether in harmony with the regional dip, and with that connecting Oil Selections Nos. 22,
29, 20, 23, 9, and 24. Assuming that these faults are approximately parallel with the regional en echelon faults (e.g. Ste. Julienne) the pattern of faults appears as in Fig. 7.
This determination receives remarkable confirmation from the gravity map of the region (Figure 8) where the isogals show a strong deflection from a northwest-southeast trend to north-northeast--south- southwest direction.
A similar treatment of Oil Selections Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8 shows discordances explicable only by faulting between Oil Selections Nos. 5 and
6, and between Oil Selections Nos. 6 and 7.
The gross result shows that, heading toward and doubtless crossing the northeast boundary of PR 514, there is a zone of NE-SW striking faults.
Between the stratigraphic horizons of Oil Selections No. 9 and No. 30
(see figures 6, 7) practically all of the Oil Selections gas showings, together with the oil show in Louvicourt Metal No. 8 l'Assomption (#151), are located.
None of these faults is exposed at the surface, nor has any been cut by the drill, consequently nothing is known of their nature in detail - whether they are clean cut surfaces, zones of fractures, brecciated zones,
100 Figure 8 '.3.
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tight or open, etc.
Several minor faults have been suggested as results of geophysical
and geochemical surveys.
FOLDS. No important folds are known in this area, or in ad-
• jacent parts of the Lowland to the northeast or southwest. This may
possibly be due to the paucity of outcrops. Small wrinkles are proposed to
explain aberrant dips and strikes, but none of these structures disturbs
the general northeasterly strikes and southeasterly dips of the beds.
IGNEOUS ROCK BODY PROBLEM. If one draws a line from L'Epiphanie
village southeastward to the junction of routes 48A and 3, wells to the
southwest (Q.D.N.R. #142, #, #46) show basic igneous rock, whereas those
to the northeast and river outcrops at L'Epiphanie show none. That this is
not a vagary due to limited amount of igneous rock is shown by an outcropping
sill at L'Epiphanie 25 feet thick, 120 feet of igneous rock in the Parent
Well (Q.D.N.R. # C93,), and 40 feet in L'Assomption Experimental Farm Well
(Q.D.N.R. #46) . In Quonto-International No. 1 Mascouche (Q .D .N .R . #58)
there were three horizons of basic sills, the lowest from 1407 to 1414 feet
with a thickness of 64'; it is not known whether this last occurrence is
connected with the L'Epiphanie-L'Assomption body. There is no certainty of
the spatial distribution of this igneous rock. At L'Epiphanie it is
obviously a sill; at the Experimental Farm Well (Q.D.N.R. #46) it is probably
a sill; at the Parent well (Q.D.N.R. #3)) its thickness is reported to be
120 feet which, if correct, would probably rule out the sill nature there,
and might indicate an intersection of a dike slightly off the vertical.
Whether of not it has, or may have, a bearing on the finding of gas or oil.
17. its termination along the line suggested above is remarkable. One would expect the surface limit of a sill, intruded parallel to the bedding, to
be a line following the strike of the beds, whereas the northeastern limit
of this body seems to be at right angles to the strike of the bedding. Of
this there is probable confirmation in the Gravity Map (Figure 8), where an
area of low gravity relief stretches south-southwest from L'Epiphanie and
L'Assomption, but the isogals show a marked deflection along the line in-
dicating the northern limit of the "sill". The "flat" area referred to above
may either represent a ridge in the Precambrian basement, a terrace
structure, as discussed above, or it may be merely a reflection of the
presence of an abnormally large and widespread body of igneous rock.
KNOWN OCCURRENCES
PETROLEUM No occurrences of liquid petroleum are known within the
limits of PR 514. However, oil was encountered during the drilling of
Louvicourt Metal No. 8 l'Assomption well (#151) in 1966, between 1332' and
1340' below the surface. This horizon, not identified stratigraphically
in the report, should be close to the Montreal-Deschambault interface.
Production was estimated at 2 bbls/day, and diminished after a few days to
.3 bbl/day. The oil is reported to have been very light Pennsylvania type.
Oil is recorded in Q.D.N.R. S-75 from Oil Selections 6 (#88), 9 (#91), 30
(#99) and 31 (#101), and also from Louvicourt No. 7 l'Assomption (#145), but
because no amounts are given the occurrences were probably inconsequential.
NATURAL GAS As is the general custom in rural areas in drilling
for water, the operations stop at the drift-bedrock interface. This is
well shown in the accompanying table (p. 18). Where a well stopped before 18.
TABLE 1. GAS WELLS IN THE CABANE RONDE AREA.
A period following the "depth to rock" figure signifies that drilling
stopped at the drift-rock interface. A plus sign indicates that the
drilling stopped within the drift.
Copied from T.H. Clark 1954, Report on the Laurentides (East half) Area. Quebec Department of Natural Resources, unpublished manuscript.
Parish Lot Proprietor Initial flow Flow Depth Depth Violent Constant to in Easy Decreasing rock rock Bubbles
L'Epiphanie 51 J.H.Payette B C 87. 52 Z. Marion B C 87. same, in fields B C ? 53 R. Payette B C 82. same B C 82. 55 A. Chaput B D 78. 56 N. Marion B D 80. 57 C. Demers B C 95. same B ? 84+ same E D 63+ same B C 82+ 61 E. Bertrand V D 90. same V D 60+
St. Henri de Mascouche 1 B. Contant V ? 86. same V ? 85. 30 3 A. Renaud V D 80. same V D 60. 29 same V C 70. 117 4 J.M.Deslongchamps B ? 90. 10 ? P.R. Chaput VE ? 90. 11 B. Lamoureux ? ? 80+ 17 T. Turenne V D 85. 13 J. Chartrand V ? 87+ ? L. Turenne B C 85. ? J. Baudoin E ? 85. 20 40 E. Lemire V ? 65+ 84 H. Longpré ? ? 95. same B ? 95.
St. Paul L'Ermite 318 E. Brien VE D 77. same VE D 77. E. Turenne VE D 120. 19. the bedrock was reached any production was necessarily "drift-gas".
There is no evidence from any of the sections of drift that decomposition therein would produce gas and hence the assumption is that it is rock gas that has seeped up into the drift. Drift gas has proved commercially ex- ploitable at Pointe du Lac, where more than a dozen wells 200 feet or so deep and entirely within overburden have measured production rates of from one to five million cubic feet per day, and at present three of these wells are tied in to a pipe-line to Three Rivers where the gas services industrial plants. Drift gas coming from isolated pockets may issue violently at first, but after a few days or even weeks, gradually peters out. Those wells with appreciable production, as at Pointe du Lac, which remain con- stant over a period of years are certainly fed by a reservoir in the rock, and this reservoir should be the goal of the drillers.
Very few occurrences of natural gas in water wells have been noted within the PR 514 limits and almost all are in the L'Assomption-
L'Epiphanie area. However, as with petroleum, there are encouraging records from nearby regions. North-northeast of L'Assomption, from two to four miles along the road paralleling Pointe du Jour brook, there are several natural gas occurrences, some of which were related to water wells and others to holes drilled by Oil Selections Ltd. in their search for oil or gas. There are unfortunately few technical recordings of the amount of gas available, but Oil Selections 29 (#99) yielded, at 1012', 185 Mcf/day, shut-in pressure 450 psi; and Oil Selections 30 (#100), at 1017', 32 Mcf/day, shut-in pressure 320 psi. Both of these horizons are about 300' below the top of the Trenton. In addition to the above, unmeasured horizons were encountered at Quonto-International No. 1 Mascouche well (#58), L'Assomption 20.
Experimental Farm well (#46) , Oil Selections 8 (#90) , 9 (#91) , 11 (#92) ,
20 (#94), 21 (#95), 22 (#96), 23 (#97), 31 (#101), and 32 (#102). Also five miles northeast of the last two, the Mohr No. 1 well (#80) yielded gas at seven horizons, all in the Trenton limestone.
Secondly, from 3 miles to 7 miles south-southwest of L'Epiphanie, in the Cabane Ronde area nearly 40 occurrences of natural gas are known, mostly from water wells, but a few from wells drilled specifically for oil or gas (See Table 1, p 18). An average of two analyses of gas from this region gave the following (see Appendix B, Nos. I and II):
Methane 86.5% CO2 1.9 Oxygen 1.6 Nitrogen 10.0 Helium tr.
POSSIBILITY OF FINDING COMMERCIAL QUANTITIES
STRATIGRAPHIC TRAPS. There are five possibly porous horizons which should
be explored as stratigraphie reservoirs. 1) Basal Potsdam: although the
lower part of the Potsdam has little if any porosity or permeability the
basal few score, or in places hundreds, of feet are conglomeratic, and are
known here and there to rest upon a brecciated zone made up of fragments of
the Precambrian basement as well as pebbles and scraps of sandstone - in
other words, what may be called a granite wash; 2) the upper Potsdam sand-
stone already referred to; 3) the basal Chazy sandstone; 4) porous horizons
in the Deschambault limestone; and 5) in the extreme eastern part of the
area sandstone lenses within the Lower Lorraine. None of these stratigraphie
horizons has a great vertical component, but if a structural trap could be
demonstrated covering a large enough area a sizeable oil or gas field might
result. 21.
The only unconformity known in this area lies between the
Trenton and Utica rocks. The Lower and Middle Utica are missing, so that
the Upper Utica lies upon the Trenton. Nowhere is there any recognizable
angular discordance between the two formations, but a difference of a
fraction of a degree could well be responsible for a trap of fair sized
proportions. Immediately below this interface lies the Upper Trenton con-
sisting of dense limestone and thin shale beds - not an encouraging reser-
voir combination, although the 300 feet more or less of Utica shale should
provide an effective impermeable cover.
In an area of limited extent, such as PR 514, few facies
developments can be recognized. This is also true if the surrounding map-
areas be taken into account. No facies are known in the Potsdam and the
Beekmantown Groups. Within the Chazy Group there are small reefal develop-
ments, the nearest one being at Ste. Anne des Plaines where a barrier-type
reef 700 feet long and probably no more than 5 feet high is bordered by
inclined flanking beds of crystallized biofragmental limestone. The Black
River Group, as seen in well cores differs in no way from its equivalents
to the northeast and the southwest. There is no facies development within
the Lower Trenton, but the lowest formations,the Mile End at Montreal, the
Ouareau locally and to the northeast, are interpreted as having been
deposited independently in separate shallow basins tectonically developed on
the Black River beds. The Lower Trenton Deschambault and the Middle Trenton
Montreal formations are no different from their equivalents along the
regional strike. Down dip, i.e. in the direction of the axis of the
Chambly-Fortierville syncline, the Middle Trenton is replaced by black
shale, but this change is removed from PR 514 by at least a score of miles.
Within the regularly bedded Upper Trenton Tetreauville Formation there may 22. be one or more developments of unstratified limestone, known as the
Terrebonne beds, which are a response to sea-floor turbulence and not to differences in supply or nature of sediment. No facies changes in the
Utica or Lorraine beds are known.
POROSITY AND PERMEABILITY. First it should be noted that very few strati- graphic horizons show intergranular porosity here. Possible granite wash at the base of the Potsdam; the Upper Potsdam sandstone; the basal Chazy sandstone; and the Deschambault limestone are horizons with possibilities, though little is known of their vertical dimensions. Nevertheless they should be tested in all wells drilled here. As far as is known there are no records of porosity or permeability of rocks occurring within or adjacent to PR 514.
Fracture Porosity is the most likely factor in the accumulation of hydrocarbons in PR 514. A few miles northeast of L'Assomption findings of appreciable amounts of oil and gas have been recorded in the logs of
Oil Selections wells and of Louvicourt Metal well No. 8 l'Assomption. In all these cases there is a definite spatial relation between the occurrences of gas and faults. Although amounts of gas and oil have so far been found definitely short of commercial acceptability, it cannot be said that this possibility has been adequately prospected. Hydrocarbons, rising westward up-dip from the central part of the Lowland basin would sooner or later come up against one or more of the en echelon faults. Where such a fault is open the fugitive hydrocarbon would escape to the air. In such places where the fault were tight either as a single plane surface or a series of parallel plane fractures, an accumulation of oil or gas would result. This is 23. probably what has happened just northeast of L'Assomption, and the ex- tension of this fault zone to the southwest into PR 514 should be intensively investigated.
STRUCTURAL TRAPS None involving folding of the sedimentary sequence such as terrace structure within the monoclinal sedimentary sequence, closed elongated anticlinal structures, domes or basins have yet been demonstrated from knowledge gained from outcrops, and geophysical or geo- chemical surveys must be relied upon to locate such structures. Three situations resulting from geophysical surveys have come to light.
First: an isopach map of the Deschambault Formation (Lower Trenton)
shows that there is a shallow basinal structure (Figure 4) in part of the
western half of PR 514 involving a closure of at the most 20 feet.
Second: referring to the Total Gravity Map (Figure 8) there is
a significant flattening of the dip of the isogals going southeastward from
the northwestern part of this map. This could indicate a terrace structure
in the sedimentary series; or possibly it could be related to the igneous
rock body outcropping at L'Epiphanie and found in wells at L'Assomption; or
it could be a reflection of an irregularity of the Precambrian surface.
Until further geophysical surveys (preferably seismic) add more information
this anomaly will remain of problematic value.
Third: in a report on a radiometric survey over the territory
northeast of PR 514 (See Que. Dept. Nat. Res. Archives, GM 16580,. July 24,
1964) Hans Lundberg noted an important anomaly extending along Rivière du
Pointe du Jour, and continuing south-southwestward for 3 miles along the
Assomption river following a line of poor but definite anomalies. The 24. first of these locations has been extensively drilled by Oil Selections
(Figures 5, 6, 7) and a sub-commercial production of gas was obtained, in the opinion of the writer from a fracture zone accompanying the supposed southwestern extension of the Chicot fault. The second location lies within the limits of PR 514 and should be thoroughly tested.
In the Pointe du Jour area, oil has been reported from Oil Selections nos. 9 (#91), 30 (#100), and 31 (#101) at horizons singularly uniformly below the top of the Trenton -- 198'-221', 189'-209', and 190'-240' respectively, all are within the Tetreauville Formation. Although this horizon should be carefully inspected, the dense limestone with shale interbeds would scarcely
have sufficient porosity and permeability to create reservoir conditions.
The significant oil find from Louvicourt Metal No. 8 l'Assomption (#151),
came at 602'-610' below the top of the Trenton and 153'-161' above the base,
probably low down in the Montreal Formation. In Oil Selections No. 6 (#88)
a trace of oil was found 360' below the top of the Trenton and 417' above the
base, certainly within the Tetreauville Formation.
A tabulation of gas occurrences from wells listed on page 4 (in-
cluding also the Mohr No. 1 well (#80) shows that there are nearly three
times as many horizons in the Upper Trenton that have yielded gas than all
others combined. This may be because the Upper Trenton is the highest
stratigraphically capable of maintaining open fractures. Both Utica and
Lorraine shales have a high percentage of clay minerals which may have been
f 24a.
NATURAL GAS HORIZONS
Wells Number of gas horizons in Lo. Ut. U.Tr. M.Tr. L.Tr. B.R. Ch.
L'Assomption Exp. Farm (#46) 2 Louvicourt Metal No. 8 (#1451) 1 1 Mohr No. 1 (#80) 6 1 Oil Selections no. 9 (#91) 3 23 (#97) 2 7 29 (#99) 1 5 30 (#100) 1 3 31 (#101) 1 3 32 (#102) 7 1 1 Quebec N.G. 1 l'Epiphanie (#141) 1 2 (#142) 1 Quonto Internat. 1 Mascouche (#58) 2 1 2
Totals 3 2 39 5 2 0 2
responsible for their inability to keep fractures open. Hence, because the
dense Utica shale is an ideal cap rock, hydrocarbons migrating up-dip
westward and rising through a fracture zone adjacent to, say, the Chicot
fault, would be trapped beneath the Utica shale. Perfect or imperfect
sealing by the cap rock would contribute to the spotty occurrence of gas
along these fault lines. 25.
RECOMMENDATIONS
A gravity survey covering the whole area is recommended to out-
line, if present, any original structure of subsequent deformation of the
sedimentary rocks resulting from irregularities of the Precambrian basement.
Elsewhere in the Lowland gravity surveys have proved very useful in
locating major faults, and because in the opinion of the writer fracture
zones along faults are likely to prove more successful in holding trapped
hydrocarbons, I recommend a complete coverage by a detailed gravity survey.
For more accurate determinations seismic surveys should be relied
upon. It should be a matter of company policy as to whether the entire area
be surveyed seismically, or whether certain parts of the area be subjected
to minute scrutiny.
A magnetic survey might well be misleading because of the possi-
bility of the presence of magnetic bodies of Precambrian rock in the base-
ment. If a magnetic survey should be made and should turn up a magnetic
high the structure should be drilled at once to determine the reason for its
presence.
The best results would probably be obtained from the use of the
recently developed high resolution air-borne magnetic procedure. Theoretically,
such a survey could be conducted with 1/1000 gamma interval, but in practice
20/ or 50/1000 gammas have proved practical and remarkably successful. The
exceptionally high cost, several times that of the standard air-borne mag-
netic survey, is well repaid by a more detailed map requiring very little
extrapolation, and with contour lines more adequately controlled and more 26,
closely spaced. This method seems to be particularly well adapted to
the conditions obtaining within the limits of PR 514.
No matter what geophysical surveys be depended upon I suggest
that particular attention be paid to that part of the area lying between
L'Epiphanie and L'Assomption, for it is here that one should find the
continuation of the faults shown in figure 6. A very careful examination
of this restricted area and extensive drilling should be rewarding.
Drilling is not recommended during the first four months of the
year. Side roads are not always adequately snow-ploughed to allow the
passage of drilling rigs or trucks bringing materials and supplies. This
applies more acutely to access roads, if any, to the drilling site.
Compensation to the landowner can be negotiated privately, or in case of
a disagreement the dispute may be submitted to a government arbitrator. 27. A22E2; LIX A
The following analyses of rocks closely related to those of 2R-514 have been taken from the following publication:
GOUDGE, M. F. -- 1935 -- Limestones of Canada. dart III, 4uebec -- Cangda, ..unes 3ranch, Lepprt_,.ent of Lines, 2ublication ho. 755
AV AÿYS 1B' OF BL'E?tL:AN T O%iii J.iOLO:1I il;
Ratio Ca3 of Sample Si02 Fe203 A1203 (PO4)2 CaCO3 MgCO3 Total S CaO MgO CaO to . MgO ürou{Age , 160 42-78 1.65 2.47 0.20 30.71 21.42 99.23 0.25 17-31 10.25 1.69: 1 160A. 17.76 1-81 2.71 0.04 50.12 26.30 08.83 0.59 28.09 12.62 2.22 :1 161 2.96 0.50 1.04 0.04 55.00 40.32 90.86 0.16 30.82 19.28 1.59 :1 p. 193 162 32.50 1.24 2-00 0.15 38.82 25.02 99.73 0.35 21.82 11.96 1.82 :1 163 6.80 0.95 1.30 0.11 51-70 38.56 99.42 0-10 29-01 18-44 1-57 :1
160. Valleyfield. Top 11 feet of strata in City quarry on De Salaherry island • 160A. • Bottom 7 feet in the same quarry. 161. Beauharnois. Pit on property of Francois Hébert 2 miles cast of the village. 162. St. Louis de Gonzague. Quarry 2 miles southwest of the village on the road to St. Stanislas. 163. Landroville. Quarry 1 mile southeast of the village.
Ratio Ca3 of . Sample Si02 Fe203 A1203 (PO4)2 CaCO3 MgCO3 Total S CaO big0 CaO to MgO Goudne,
31 9.56 1.88 0.46 0.1l 50.02 37.61 100-24 0.19 23.35 18.07 1.57 : 1 32 4•68 1.08 0.16 0.02 53•4.5 40.40 99.79 0.05 29•94 19-32 1•55 :1 p. 157 32A 10.10 1.51 2.39 0.07 47.13 36-70 97-90 0-45 26-43 17.55 1.51 :1
31. Coteau Landing. Sis "oot face in small quarry ., mile north of Soulanges station. 32. Coteau du Lac. Top 7 feet of heavily bedded stone in quarry ;. mile west of Delisle river and north of the Soulanges canal. 32A. " Two feet of thinly bedded dolomite beneath the heavily bedded stone in the same quarry. 2s. AlvAZYS ()3<~'.üY LIIL:;:1,:A Iv; IL'
Ratio Ca, of Sample 5102 Fe203 A1203 (PO4)2 CaC03111gC'0. Total S CaO Mg0 CaO to Mg0
57 2.10 1.41 0-31 0-39 88.39 6>•09 99.29 0-11 49-71 3-20 16:I 54 4-40 1-96 0-78 0.33 79•04 13.5tî 99.47 0-03 44•14 6•48 7:1 59 7.90 1•76 0•48 0•97 80.20 7•49 98.80 0•09 45.4:3 3.58 1.3:1 60 2-14 0•52 0.39 0•42 94-48 1•85 99.80 0.14 53.14 0•88. 60 : 1 GOucigO t 60A 31.60 2.08 2-16 2-10 55.75 4.71 98.40 0.44 32•.36> 2-25 14 :1 61 3-72 1.57 1.37 0-48 •89•64 2.33 99•15 Tr. 50.48 1-11 46 .1 62 0.66 0-79 0-31 0-09 90•32 1.39 90.50 0.09 53•99 0•136 R2:1 p. Z~b 63 3.37 1.35 0.34 0.44 92•134 1.87 100.01 0.10 52.12 0.89 59 :1 64 1•18 0-63 0.51 0-15 95-75 1•95 1(30•17 0.11 53.70 0.9:3 58:1 64A 0.90 0-35 0.45 0.07 96.25 1•8I 99•83 0.03 53.94 0.86 63:1 6413 2•18 0.62 0-70 0-35 9-1•14 1•11 99-10 0.10 52-91 0-53 100 :1 65 0•68 0•90 0•40 0.1:3 99.11 1•38 99.60 0.12 53.89 0•66 82 :1 66 0•94 0-72 0•36 0-30- 96.65 1.44 100.11 0.03 54•30 0.69 79 : 1 66.\ 0.86 0•69 0.50 0.07 92.70 4•64 99-46 0.11 51.95 2.22 23:1 6>6>13 4.78 1-43 3.02 0.11 81.54 9.47 100-35 0.48 45-72 4.5:3 10 : 1 67 1.90 0-80 0-72 0.31 93.89 1•29 98.90 0-10 52.75 0-61 87 :1 67:1. 2•74 0•52 0.28 0•02 94•71 1.7.2 99-99 0.061 53.05 0.82 6713 65 :1 16.12 2-71 3.7.3 0•57 :10.12 27•08 100•33 0.09 28•38 13.95 2:1 67(• 2.513 0.65 1.21 0•213 91.93 2•96 90.2; 0.18 51.62 2.66 20:1 134 1.51 1.02 0•34 0.13 95-00 1.51 90.55 0•00 53.27 0.72 74:1 69 1-48 1•10 0-72 0-09 95.34 0•53 99.213 0•03 53•44 0-25 214 • 1 70 2-30 0.19 0.37 0.11 96•35 0.84 100.10 Tr. 54•02 0-40 135 :1 71 0•68 0.96 0-27 n.d. 07-87 0•84 100-62 0.12 54•42 0•40 71A 136 :1 1.14 0-98 0.70 0.07 93.34 3.82 100-05 0.19 52-31 1.83 29 : 1 72 1.OS 1.17 1.43 n.d. 84.99 10•32 98•99 0.20 47-75 4•94 9.7 : 1 72A 0•97 0.73 1-01 u-d. 93.33 2.51) 9.4.63 0-22 52.43 1-24 7211 42 : 1 0•52 0.49 0.87 n.d. 94.98 2.30 99.16 0-15 53.36 1.10 49 : 1 73 2-50 1-77 1.05 0.09 84•54 9.20 99.15 0-30 47.39 4.40 11 :1 73A. 4.68 1.30 1.80 0•09 79•86 11-61 99•34 0.27 44.77 5•55 74 8 :1 5-78 0.73 1.99 0.17 89.93 1.58 100.18 0-16 50.45 0.75 67 : 1
-5 . St. Martin. Heavily bedded stone in small quarry on property of Maximo Bigots, 1 mile east of the village. 58, it Magnesian limestone on property of Mme. Alma Gauthier, 1 mile east of the village. 59, ". Top 61 feet, of strata in abandoned quarry on property of Mme. Gauthier. 60 0 Top 8 feet of strata in the Lagacé quarry. 60A. 0 Bottom 10 feet of strata in the Lagaeé quarry. 61. it Top 8 feet of stone in quarry on property of Godfroi Lecavalier, . Goudge, 11 miles north of the fagacé quarry. 42. Cap St. Martin. Fifteen feet of limestone exposed in old quarries on top of the hill south of the village. p. 129 433. " Forty-five feet of stone in face of quarry on south side of the Canadian Pacific railway, 1 mile east of the village. 64. Village Belanger. Eight-foot section of coarse-grained stone above the bed of red limestone in the deep quarry formerly worked by John Quinlan & Co. for building stone. 64:1. Next IR feet of strata below the red bed in the same quarry. 648, Next 40 feet of strata. 0 65. Fifteen-foot face in an old quarry just ea't of the village. 66. " Seventeen feet of strata in an abandoned quarry â mile east of the village. 0 6î6îA. Upper 23 feet of strata in the quarry of Martineau Fils, Ltée. G6>13. " Lowest bed at present quarried in the Martineau quarry. 67. St. Vincent de Paul. Twenty feet of Trenton st :ata exposed in south end of the quarry formerly worked by Montreal Crushed Stone, Ltd. 67A. IC Thirty-five feet. of Black River limestone underlying the Trenton limestone in the same quarry. 6713. " Ten-foot band of impure, rusty-weathering magnesian limestone, in the sanie quarry. ti7C. it Twenty feet of Chazy limestone in the northern end of the quarry. 64. " Quarry operated in connection with St. Vincent de Paul Peni- tentiary. 49. It Quarry at junction of Cate des Perron and St. François de Sales roads. 70. Côte des Perron. Quarry on property of J. Charbonneau, i mile west of the school. 71. St. François tie.Sales. Felix Labelle quarry; top 10 feet. - i , 71A. " bottom 26 feet. 7=. IC Property of Stone & Quarry, Ltd.; top 5 feet. it 72A- " middle 6 feet. 0 7213. " bottom 5 feet. 73. I< Entire face of quarry formerly worked by Iienned_y Construc- tion Co., Ltd„ at a point midway along the length of the quarry. 73A. Entire face at southern end of the above quarry. 74. II Limestone. exclusive of shale interbeds, in quarry formerly worked by Unic Cement Co.
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. -r 1%. 1\7 TPc Div I' , • • • - UL ER1-J-, 1 ( V I ) I" "
Gp..npda L;ement qomp-Ily Montrep.1 c:111-,- also kin. v .;:m11•,, the ioiiowi made f:'031-1a col-e from a 400 feet • cuarry.
Depth from surface Fe•20-1- Loss on (feet) Si02 AL03 ('a0 Mg0 ignition Total aage, 0- 10 11.•22 4.40 44.60 2.07 38-30 100-59 11• 14 4-46 44.50 2.11 37.20 99.41 10- 20 ' 20- 30 1846 7.86 36-38 2-69 32.22 97.61 112 30- 40 20•52 10-42 34-83 2-75 29.84 97.86 40- 50 17.26 5.26 42.61 :_ • 17 36.42 98•72 50- 60 11•62 5-22' 43-65 2.21 16-84 99-54 60- 70 8-66 4.36 45.87 3611 18-14 08-6' 70- 80 10-12 4.86 44-76 1-94 17-52 90 • 29 80- 90 10-58 4.84 44-21 7.78 37.04 98-9". 90-100 11-30 5.14 42-52 2.92 36-48 9N.0 100-110 10. 72 4.94 44-21 2-18 36.78 110-120 8-14 4.44 46-28 1-98 38.58 99 42 120--130 8.08 4-42 45.50 2-88 38.90 29 -.'.. 130-1421 9.16 4.80 45.57 2.26 38.10 29.s9
ANALYSES O aILDLI T1-,121T3N (LONTiiLAL) LIMESTOriL
1. 1 Ratio 1 (a) of Sample Si02 , 1:4,04 A1203 (Pflo, CaC0n,MgCO, Goudge, 1 i Tot t) S (*at / ; Mg0 ;Cal) to 1 MgO 1 p. 53 93 2.90 0-25 0-65 0.26 94.091 1-40 99-55 0-06 31 93A 5.50 0.44 52.8 0-671 79 : 1 0-36 0.31; 91.321 1-31) 99-3:: 0-07 51-3 9313 6.58 0-38 1.21 0-241 0•661 78 : 1 88-98, 1-90 99-29 0- 00 41j.0 61 0.911 55 : 93. St. Louis Ile Franee. Top 10 feet oi t,-- 't 9; • ,.t ti-r2, .;n,-rated 93.4. k Boon. Next 13 f eet of r-,! ------I iiiilia:iffy worked by St. Maurice 9313, 14 Quarry, Ltd. Bottom 7 feet in fte e of -am). quarry.
LO4E:a TRE1TOU (1).OHAIL3AUL2)
l• 1 1 Ratio ' Cat 1 01 Sample Si0 2 AizOa (PO4)2 Ca0.2 1MgC0a Total S CaO Mg0 CaO to C.-o4dgel Mg() 1 • 84 1 p. 77 1.50 0.25 0.39 0-22 95.61; 1.68 100.73 0-08 54.25 0.801 68 :1 84 N. •90 0.531 0-27 0.42 94.64 0.50 -1 98.38 6.12 53.24 0.241 222 : 1 8413 0-64 0-18' 0-21 0-15 98-04 0.97 100-20 0-05 .54-09 840 0•46, 120 / 4. i 8: 0.08' 1.07 0-00 91•66' 24.9 99-72 0-12 51.38 1.141 85 45 :1 0.521 0.27i 0.15 0.22 98 •70; 0.29 100.15 0.16 55.39 81.5. 0.141 395 :1 1.90! 0.681 0.78 0.27 94.801 0.12 90.39 0.07 53.26 0.441 121 :1 8513 1.141 0-251 0.76 -Q-39 96.50,1 0-82 09.36 Si) 0.05 54-25 0-301 139 : 1 0.93i 0-49, 0-94 0-24: 95.891 1-91 09.50 0.08 53.83 0.481 112 :1
84. Joliette. Quarry of Si andara f.ime Co., nearly 140., top 55 feet of strata in part of quarry S4A. it free froth chert. Same tiutirry, top 55 (vet of s)rata in part where elicit is plentiful, but no chort is 8413. tf ineillded in the :.,a>n90. Same quarry, cow dnsi; o ,::1;n • 11/1.,est,me used plc of medium-grained and coarso-grained 840. 44 for tanking limo. 85. " Same quarry; composite sample of all fine-grained Ininds in the quarry. Arnaud k 13eaudry quarry, top 13 feet of medium-grained, stone used for lime. SSA. 44. Sanle (4 "rrY, 7 feet of /- but ezrita- 1:4-g•raine...1 , (kirk-coloured cherty stone beneath, 83B. 44 . . I4 -4 .• ling the (-item 4oduies. 4 ( N 86. el Z, . N iateur quarry, entire 25-foot face. Ste. Elizabeth. Ten-font face ia quarry Lavallee. 3 mica south of the village, on land of Ephrem _ 3Q... Ae.eaTalx
ANALYSE5 OF NATURAL GAS Fi?OU LOCAL ITI - NI THIN 2,5 MILES ( EXCLOT XII & XIII ) OF iYR-514
Part D Natural Gas' 79
ANALYSES Ok` NATURAL GASES IN PStOVn\CA. op QUEBEC (Percentage by vollllue)
Nitrogen T Carbon Total hydrocwr- (byy Oxygen Helium o. dioxide bons as methane difference)
_ 2,0 2.3 38.1 7.6 Trace iI 1.8 • 0.9 , 84.9 12.4 0.027 ce1:.olo.,y ' III 0.3 18.7 3.1 77.9 - None , 7.7 73.7 None ;astis \•.rY IV 0.4 - 18.2 V 0.7 IO.S .40.3 48.2 • None ecu found VI 0.3 . 0.6 83.4 15.7 Trace. sil peraciat VII .0.4' 1.0 80.4 13.2 0.008 eel) wells VIII . 0.0 0.7 90.5 8.8 0.060 Trace ethane, IX 0.4 1.4 68.7 29.5 0.1 ,).4 . 83.7 13.8 • 0.010 ,lis usually X XI 0.8 0.7 79.9 . 1S.6 0.036 .e, also, to XII(a) 0.6 12.4 32.9 54.1 None Ieep„,ls XII(b) 1 7 0.9 92.1 5.3 Trace s in XIII (a) 2.4 0.5 85.0 . 12.1 Trace 6.9 None ~o. VII) XIII(b) 1.3 •1.3 90.5 no carbon Page production 68 ea-zest hope I Main vent at Cabane Ronde type (see II Vent, house at Cabane Ronde 68 III 'Raoul Houle, Yamachiche District 52 5~ )ries of the IV Avila Descoteaux, Yamachiche Swinnârton V Avila Descoteaux, Yamachiche 51 .ore, Super- VI lMme Leon Carbonneau 52 VII Gustave Bellemare, Louiseville 54 VIII Jean Trudel, St. Grégoire 46 IX Wilfrid Chicoine, Verchères' Village 59 X Ludovic Boisseau, Grande Côte 55 •XI Lucien Bonier, St. Ours 56 XII lime. Gervais, •Ste. Geneviève 44 XIII Star • Mineral Water Company, Ste. Geneviève 44
QUEBEC BUREAU OF MINES, ANNUAL i-tEc`'o? T FOR 1930 , PART D, p. 79 31.
A~2 ENLIX C
Logs of vvells referred to in tuts report.
.4 ken from 4uebec iJepartment of i:aturQl nesources 2ublication S-75, and subsequent aaaitional material. - 31- 32.
Company: Cartier Natural Gas Co. Ltd. Well Name: Cartier Natural Gas No. 5 Well Location Lot: 322 Concession: De la Grande Côte de Lanoraie Parish: Lanoraie County: Berthier Coords: 1 miles S.W. of Lanoraie Ground Elevation: $0' RF Elevation: $2' Spudded: 193. Finished: 1935 Type of Rig: Cable Result: Dry Hole Log by Belyea: Formation Depth interval (in feet) ~ Overburden 0 - 200 Lorraine-Utica 200 - 1$20 Trenton (Terrebonne and Tétreauville) 1$20 - 2300 Trenton (Montreal) 2300 - 2500
.4 Not known if well is Plugged,. 33.
Operator: Federal Government Well Name: L'Assomption Experimental Farm Well Location
-Lot: 445 or .48? Range: Côté Nord du Bas de L'Assomption Parish: L'Assomption County: L'Assomption Coords: Near bank of river, about one mile South of town of L'Assomption Ground Elevation: j1' RF Elevation: 53' Spudded: 1929 if _Finished: 1929 Type of Rig: :able
Result: i)ry Hole Mater Salty at: 835', 845', 1050' Gas at: 90'-100', 830'-835', 845' Log by H.R. Belyea: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 120 Lorraine-Utica 120 - "535 Missing 535 - 580 Igneous rock 580 - 620 TrentonTerrebonne & Tétreauville)... 620 870 Trenton Montreal & Nile 4nd) 870 - 1260 Black River (Leray & Lowville) 1260 - 1290 Black River (Pamelia?) 1290 - 1320 Chazy (Laval) 1320 - 1580 Beekmantown 1530 - 1640
' Not known if well is pigged. 44
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7gnv: Louvicourt Goldfield Corp. Well Name: Louvicourt No 5 L'Assomption Locat ion Lot: 93 Range: Côte sud du point du jour Parish: L'Assomption County: L'Assomption Coords: 130' E of W LL 428' S of main road
Ground Elevation: 4 69' Spudded: September 13, 1965 Finished: March 24, 1966 Driller: Sixty-Five Dev. Ltd. Type of Rig: Diamond Drill Result: Dry hole Gas at: 7751-2791 , 9711 -972', 1,196'-1,226', 1,551-1553'. Water: 794' -796', 954' Log: by G. Blair
Formation Depth interval (in feet)
Overburden 0 - 80 Shale 80 - 727 Limestone 727 - 1552 35
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Company: Louvicourt Goldfield Well Name: Louvicourt No 7 l'Assomption Location Lot: 84 Range: Coté sud du point du jour Parish: County: L'Assomption Coords: 50' W from E LL 750' SW from main road Ground Elevation: 69' Spudded: November 15, 1965 Finished: April 7, 1966 Driller: Sixty-Five Dev. Ltd. Type of Rig: Diamond Drill Result: Dry hole Gas at: 1037', 1349' Oil: 1349' Salt water: 1349' Log: by G. Blair
Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 92 Shale and Limestone„.... 92 - 1349 36
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Company: Louvicourt Goldfield Corp. Well Name: Louvicourt Metal No. 8 l'Assomption Location Lot: 81+- Range: Côté sud du point du jour Parish: L'Assomption County; L'Assomption Coords: 17+7' SW from NE LL 865' SE from center line of road
cu.nd Elevation: - 53' Spudded: ' May 235 1966 T i~-~lis~~_ed â July 149 1966 Driller: J.C. McMaster of Rig: Cable R,sult: Dry hole Gas at: 1006'-1010'9 1332'-1340', Oil: 13321 -1340' Sal:, water: 1407?-1412' Log: by J.R. Bridger
Formation De-nth interval(in feet)
Ove-'burden00000400000•000000400 0 - 80
LOrrwine.. O O O p O.. . 0 u 0 O O.: 0 0 0 0 & 0 0 0 80 - 37+0
U V --• ..» 0 O g. 0 0 0 00000 O 0.00 00410 0 O- 4 a 340 730 - ... w iJnO 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 O 0 O O O O.. u O V Y - 730 - 17+93 D"....:.: River00000000000000000004 1493 - 157e• ,^( 2 !'~ -' ~ia L v a 0 0 e a o. n•• ., a o.. 0 0. 0 0 0. 0. Q o ,, 1576 - ~021
- 000000000000004404 2021 - 2552.
..~w~tl• O O tl 0 0 0 v u a S a. 0.. d 0 a 4••.. 2552 - 2611-.
- 80 - 37.
Company: Carl M. Mohr Ltd. Well Name: Mohr No. 1 Well Location Lot: 729 Concession: N.-0. de la Rivière St-Jean Parish: Lanoraie County: Berthier Seigniory: Lanoraie Ground Elevation: .63' RF Elevation: 65' Spudded: Nay 21, 1934 H Finished: Sept. 20, 1934 Type of Rig: Cable Result: 15 Mcf. gas/day. Shut-in pressure: 370 psi. Water Salty at: 1390' Gas at: 870', 910', 983', 1008', 1083', 1130', 1202'-1206' Loam by Belyea: Formation depth 'Interval (in fAet) 0verburder 0 - 70 Lorraine-Utica 70 - 840 Trenton (T6t.re771uville) 840 - 1150 Trenton (Montreal) 1150 - 1390
Well not pluzged 38.
Company: Oil Selections Ltd. Well Name: Oil Selections No. 1 Location
Lot: 55 Range: Cabane Ronde i'arïsh: L'Epiphanie County: L' ?,ssomption Coords: 500' from S. LL., 500' from W. LL. Ground Elevation: 81' KB Elevation: 85' RF Elevation: 83' Spudded: June 18, 1956 Finished: July 11, 1956. Abandoned: January 3, 1962 Drillers: Ranch Drilling, St. Lombert Drilling Type of Rig: Rotary and Diamond Drill Result: Dry Isole Log by T.H. Clark :
Formation Depth inteeval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 102 Trenton (Terrebonne) 102 - 132 39.
.)o- pany: Oil selections Ltd. tiiell Name: Oil Selections No. 2 Location T 4. 5 Range: Cabane Ronde Parish: St. Henri de I•iascouche County: L'Assomption Coords: On 5-7 LL., 10001 W. of railway line Ground Elevation: 521 1B Elevation: 56' Spudded: June 8, 1956 Finished: June 15, 1956. Abandoned: November 14, 1961 Driller: Ranch Drilling Ltd. Type of Rig: Rotary Result: Dry Hole Log by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Cv rburden 0 - 90 Utica - 90 - 222 Trenton (Terrebonne) 222 - 315 Trenton Tétreauville) 315 - 578 40. Company: Oil Selections Ltd. doll Pig pie: Oil Selections No. 3 Location Lot: 65' Concession: 111 I'arish: St i'aul L'Hermite County: L' i,ssoianptlnn Coords: 250' i'ron,l 305-304 U., 250' from 2nd & 3rd Concession line Ground Elevation: o5' KB Elevation: 69' Spudded: Juno 15, 1956, Finished: June 27, 1956. Abandoned: January 23, 1962 Driller: Ranch Drilling Typo of Rig: Rotary Result: Dry Hole Log by T.H. Clark: Forn:Ation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 100 Lower Lorraine 100 - 160 Utica 160 - 384 Trenton (Tcrrebonne) 38 - 417
41.
Company: Oil Selections Ltd. Name:: Uil Selections No. 4 Location Lot: 22b :Cane: 11 Parish: :Jt. Paul L'Hermite County: L'Assomption Coords: 250' from 226 and 227 LL. 250' from 1st and 2nd Concession line Ground -Elevation: 46' ::BElevation: 50' Spudded: June 24, 1956 Finished: June 27, 195b. Abandoned: January 23, 1962 Driller: Ranch Drilling Ltd. Result: Dry Hole Gas at: 190' .)il at: 190, Log by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet)
Overburden 0 - 80 Lower Lorraine 30 - 180 Utica 180 - 1.44 Trenton 444 - 473 - 87 - 42.
- Company: Oil âelections Ltd. Well Name: Oil 5elections No. 5 Location Lot: 176 Range: Cet6 ï,ord du Point du Jour Parish: L'Assomption County: L'Assomption Coords.: 1800' N.E. of S.W. LL., 200' S.I. of N...2. LL. Ground :elevation: 62' KB elevation: b6' Spudded: June 28, 1956 Finished: July 1, 1956. Abandoned: January 18, 1962 Driller: Ranch- Drilling Ltd. Type of Rig: Rotary Result: Dry Hole Log by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 110 Lower Lorraine 110 - 220 Utica 220 - 530 Trenton 530 - 561
43 .
Company: Oil Selections Ltd. Well Name: Oil Selections No. 6 Location Lot: 36J iane: C6té Sud du Point du Jour Parish: L'Assomption County: L'Assomption Coords: 250' S.L. of N.W. LL., 200' N.E. of S.W. LL. Ground Elevation: 47' KB Elevation: 51' RF Elevation: 4.9' Spudded: July 1, 1956 Finished: Sept. 1956. Abandon?d: January 18, 1962 Drillers: Ranch Drilling, St.Larnbert Drilling Type of Rig: Rotary and Diamond Drill Result: Dry Hole Oil at: .11140' Log by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 110 Loi-rer Lorraine 110 - 394 Utica 394 - 7~0 Trenton ( Tétreauville ) , 61 - 1263 (ï:ontrcal) 1263 - 1450 << (Deschambault) 1450 - 1532 (Ouareau) 1532 - 1557 Blc.c i: .:iver (Leray) 1557 - 1584 ( Lowville ) 1584 - 1601 TT (Pamelia) 1601 - 1622 Chazy 1622 - 2036 Beelunan;,oti•:n (Leauharnois) 2036 — 2374 If (L:arch) 2374 - 2595- rotsdam 2595 - 2655 - 89 - 44 .
Company: Oil Selections Ltd. Well Name: Oil Selections No. 7 Location Lot: 143 Parish: St. Sulpice County: L'Assomption Coords: 1320', .S.e. of N.W. LL., in center of lot 143 Ground elevation: 6$' KB Elevation: 72' Spudded: Aug. 1, 1956 Finished: Aug. 6, 1956. Abandoned: February 15, 1962 Driller: Ranch Drilling Ltd. Type of Rig: Rotary Result: Dry Hole Log by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in Beet) Overburden.; 0 - 110 ',addle Lorraine 110 - 226 Lower Lorraine 226 - 662 Utica 662 1007 - 90 - 45.
Co.:'pany: Oil Selections Ltd. e11 i a e: Oil Selections No. $ Location Lot: 143 Parish: St. Sulpice County: L'ssomption Coords: 400' N.W. of S.L. LL., in center of lot 143 Ground Elevation: 1+9' 1:3 .levation: 53? Spudded: July 25, 1956 ii'inished: Aug. 1, 1956. Abandoned: January 24, 1962 Driller: Ranch Drilling Ltd. Type of Rig: Rotary Result: Dry fiole Gas at: 204' Log by T.H. Clark:
Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 80 1.:Iiddle Lorraine. 80 - 306 Lower Lorraine.. 306 - '760 Utica 760 - 1000 - 91 - 46 .
Coïipany: Oil Selections Ltd. Well Name: Oil Selections No. 9 Location Lot: 78 Ran e: C6t6 Sud du Point du Jour Parish: L'Assomption County: L'Assomption Coords: 50' N.E. of S.W. LL., 2376' S.L. of N.W. LL. Ground Elevation: 60' KE Elevation: 64' Spudded: July 10, 1956. Abandoned: January 3, 1962 Finished: Oct. 13, 1956 briller: Ranch Drilling Ltd Type of Rig: Rotary Result: Dry Hole Water Salty at: 1080' Gas at: 972', 1005', 1109' Oil at: 962'-985' Log by• T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - • 80 Lower Lorraine 80 - 403 Utica 403 - 764 Trenton (Tétreauville) 764 -.1238 46a .
Company: Oil Selections Ltd. Well Name: Oil Selections No. 11 Location Lot: 35 Parish: St.Sulpice County: L'Assomption Coords: 50' N.E. of S.W. LL., 2640' N.W. of S.E. LL. Ground Elevation: 40' KB Elevation: 441 Spudded: July 18, 1956 Finished: July 25, 1956. Abandoned: January 26, 1962 Driller: Ranch Drilling Ltd Type of Rig: Rotary Result: Dry Hole Gas at: 223' Loi; by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 80 Middle Lorraine 80 - 330 Louer Lorraine 380 - 830 Utica 880 -,1020 No record 1020 - 1038 - 93 - 47.
Company: Oil SolectionsLtd, Name: Oil Selections No. 1$ Location Lot: 78 Range: Côté Sud du Point du Jour Parish: L'Assomption County: L'Assomption Coords: 3696' S.L. of N.W. LL., in center of lot 78 Ground 21eva.tion: 63' KD 2levation : 67' Spudded: Aug. 6, 1956 Finished: Feb. 6, 1957. Abandoned: December 30, 1961 Driller: Ranch Drilling Ltd Type of Rig: Rotary Result: Dry Hole Log by T.H. Clark:
Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden o - 70 :;:fiddle Lorraine 70 - 203 Lower Lorraine 203 - 694 Utica 6.94 - 950 No record 950 - 1042 - 94. - 48.
Company: Oil Selections Ltd. :icll Name: Oil Selections No. 20 Location Lot: 7£3 lane: Ce t6 Sud du Point du Jour Parish: LT Assoption County: L'Assomption Coords: 1188' S.L. of N.W. LL., in center of lot 78 Ground Elevation: 54' KB .Elevation: 58' Spudded: Aug. 11, 1956 Finished: Oct. 10, 1956. Abandoned: December 28, 1961 Driller: Ranch Drilling Ltd Type of Rig: Rotary Result: Dry Hole Gas at: 150' Log by T.H. Clark: Forziation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 80 Lower Lorraine 80 - 380 Utica 380 - 740 Trenton 740 - 1155 - 95 - 49 .
Copany: Oil : o1ections Ltd. Well Name: Oil Jelections No. 21 Location Lot: 7$ i.ange: Côté :sud du Point du Jour Parish: L'Assomption County: L'Assomption Coords: 100' W. of L. LL., 200' south of the road Ground ::levation: 52' levation: 56' Cpudded :. Aug. 15, 1956 Completed: Aug. 30, 1956. Aba.rdond: DQcember 28, 1961 Driller: Ct. Lambert Drilling Co. Ltd. Type of Rig: Diamond Drill Result: Dry Hole Water At unknown depth Gas at:. 85', 530', 636' Log: i~ ormation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 77 lao record 77 - 500 Utica 500 - 519 No record 519 - 676 - 96 - 50.
Co;npany: Oil Selections Ltd, Well l':a:;le: Oil Selections No. 22 Location Lot: 78 F ange : C6t6 Cud du ?oint du Jour ari sh : L'Assomption County: L'Assomption C oords : 1000' 1;. of E. LL., 400' north of the road Ground Elevation: 51' KB Elevation: 57' • Spudded: Aug. 30, 1956 Finished: Sept. 2, 1956 Driller: 'stance Drilling Ltd. Abandoned: January 22, 1962 'f'ype of Rig: Rotary Result: Dry i-tole Gas at: 290' Log by T. ii. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 90 -Tower Lorraine 90-38 Utica 348 - 614 51.
Company: Oil Selections Ltd. Well Name: Cil Selections No. 23 Location Lot: 8 9 Côté Sud du Point du Jour Parish: L'Assomption County: L'Assomption Coords: 50' from LL., 2480' South of road Ground Elevation: 67' KB Elevation: 71' Spudded: Oct. 19, 1956 inished: larch 5, 1957. Abandoned: January 3, 1962. Driller: Ranch Drilling Ltd Type of Pig: Rotary Result: 79 l!icf. gas/day. Shut-in pressure: 38 psi. Water Salty at: Unknown depth Gas at: 210', 303', 892', 908', 1028', 1041', 1059', 1106', 1163' Log by T.H. Clark: 1.'ornation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 90 Lower Lorraine 90 - 414 Utica 414 - 794 Trenton 794 - 1360 No record 1360 - 1367 9ô - 52.
Company: Oil Selections Ltd. Well Name: Gil selections No. 24 Location Lot: 89 C&t Sud du Point du Jour i'aris` h: L'iLssomp ion County: L' Assomption Coords: 50' from i. LL., 3800' South of road Ground L3levatior.: 69' iLL 1.1evation: 73' Spudded: Aug. 15, 1956 Finished: Aug. 19, 1956. Abandond: January 3, 1962 Driller: i ranch vrilling. Ltd. Type of Rig: Rotary Result: Dry Hole Log by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden_ 0 - 90 Lower Lorraine 90 - 444 Utica 444 - 520 No record 820 - 830 U. Trenton (Tétreauville) 830 - 1266 -99- 53 .
Company: Oil Selections Ltd. Well Name: Oil Selections No. 29 Location Lot: 89 -pan ge : Cône; Sud du Point du Jour Parish: L'Assomption County: L'Assomption Coords: 50' from L. LL., 1180' South of road Ground lilevation: 55' KB ilovation: 59' .?F elevation: 57' Spudded: Aug. 22, 1956 Finished: Sept. 25, 1956 Drillers: Ranch Drilling Ltd., St.Lambert Drilling Type of Rig: Rotary and Diamond Drill Result: Gas well Reported flow: 185 i'icf./day. Shut-in pressure: 450 psi. Water Salty at: 880' Gas at: 72', 547'-582', 762', 860', 912', 947', 1012' Log by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 70 Lower Lorraine 70 - 360 Utica . 360 - 736 Trenton 736 - 901 No record 901 - 1012 - 100 - 54. Company: Oil Selections Ltd. ';011 i;ame: Oil Selections No. 30 Location Lot: 93 Range: Côté Sud du Point du Jour Parish: L'Assomption County: L'Assomption Coords: In center of lot 93, 200' South of road Ground »levation: 65' KB :elevation: 09' Spudded: Oct. 17, 1956 Suspended: March 2, 1957 Well plugged and abandoned: Jan. 5, 1962 Driller: Ranch Drilling Ltd. Type of Rig: Rotary Result: 32 1c.f. gas/day. Shut-in pressure: 320 psi. Water Salty at: Unknown depth Gas at: 30', 780', 3$5', 910', 1016' Oil at: 927'-947' Log by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - $0 Lower Lorraine $0 - 423 Utica 423 - 73$ Upper Trenton 738 - 1000 No record 1000 - 1154 - 101- 55.
Company: Oil Selections Ltd. Well Name: 'Oil Selections No. 31 Location Lot: 36& F an;;e : C6té Sud du Point du . Jour Parish: St.Antoine de Lavaltrie County: Derthier Coords: In center of lot 368, 1580' S.L. of road Ground .elevation: . 82' K13 :levation: 86' Spudded: Dec. 10, 1956 Finished: Feb. 27, 1957. Abandoned: January 5, 1961 Driller: Ranch Drilling Ltd. Typo of Rig: Rotary Result: Dr; Isole Gas at: 300', ô90', 1050', 1095'-1100' Cil at: 950'-1000' Log by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 100 Lower Lorraine 100 - 400 Utica 100 - 760 Upper Trenton • 760 - 993 No record 993 - 1100 - 102 - 56. Company: Oil Selections Ltd. Well Nu1..e: Oil Selections No. 32 Location Lot: 93 ,ange: Côté Cud du Point du Jour Parish: L'Assomption County: L'Assomption Coords: In center of lot 93, 1840' south of road Ground levation: 74' RF 'Li 1eva tion: 78' Spudded: Dec. 27, 1956 Finished: April 30, 1957. Abandond: Januery 19, 1962 Driller: St.Lambert Drilling Co. Ltd Type of Rig: Diamond Drill Result: Dry Hole Water 480', 819', 842' Gas at: 991 , 804' $19', X342', 1014', 1067' , 1076', 1117' 11291, 1180', 1311'-1321' Log by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 80 Lower Lorraine 80 - 160 No record 160 - 756 Trenton (T'treauville and Terrebonne 756 - 1100 No record 1100 - 1119 Trenton (I:iontreal) 1119 - 1264 Trenton (Deschambault) 1264 - 1321 57.
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Company: Oil Uolecticn s Ltd.
Well i'J:uiI1@3': Oil vL.IVction~'.Jo. 33 Location Lot : 108 Concession: Crrr.;nde C6te Lav.atrie ,oul-ItY . w3:.rtniér Coordd. In conter cf lot 10$, 1t+7Ût S.W. of LL. Ground :2levation: t9i; t K~; Elevation: We ,_i S1 ucd d: :1 rci 1957 Fini:;hed: 1, 1.957. .b-n;lon-(9 . January 1P, 1962 llrillLr: ?tanch drilling ~o. Ltcz. Type of i=ii; : Rotary Result: llry Hole Water At uniLnorm depth Lo ; by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 79 no record 79 - 600 Louer Lorraine. . 600 - 660 Utica 660 - 980 :'lo record 980 - 107$ Upper `i'ronton 1078 - 1460 i.iidcâle Trenton.. 40 1460 - 1646 58.
Operator: Parent Well Name: Parent Well Location Town: L'Assomption County: • L'Assomption Coords: 1500' S. 750 . of town well Ground Elevation: 21' tF Elevation: 23/ Spudded: 1926 K Finished: 1926 Type of itig: Cable Result: Dry Hole Log: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden (clay and sand) 0 - 120 Igneous rock 120 - 240 Utica` 240 - 400
34 Not known if well is pluap-ed 59. - 141 -
Company: Quebec Natural Gas Co. Well Name: Quebec Natural Gas No. 1 l'Epiphanie Location Lot: 143 Range: Haut de l'Achigan Côte Nord Parish: L'Epiphanie County: L'Assomption Coords: 212' from E LL 2477' from N LL• Ground Elevation: 73' Spudded: July 15, 1965 • Finished: August 4, 1965 Driller: Inspiration Ltd. Type of Rig: Diamond Drill Result: Dry hole Gas at: )1)10' 0il: Odor: 85' - 240' Odor: 440' - 458' Odor: 4691 - 496' Odor: 544' - 550' Log: by J.-V. Quick
Formation Depth interval (in feet)
Overburden...... 0 - 24 Trenton,•...... e ...... 24 - 531
Black River.. , . , ...... 531 588
Chazy...Ç..O..o...... a...... 588 60
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Cc:~~.n~ Quei;cc Natural Gas Co. _a:re: Quebec Natural Gas No, 2 l'Epiphanie -coca ion
Lot: 12 Range: Côte St-Charles Parish: • L'Epiphanie County: L'Assomption Coords: 208' from lg LL 900' from S LL Elevation: ; 76' Spudded: July 27, 1965 ..~.i_:_fs _ed : hü J«st 59 1965 ::'r _•-=er: :iîspZrat,-roll Ltd
t3 of Rig: Diamond Drill Rescat: Dry hole Gas ats 441'
Ciil. o Odor - Trenton
-J,Z: by Quebec Natural Gas
Formation Depth interval (in feet) ~ n ;, ,.~~ - -,- ~urâen,~or~ A~,~~ n OGAAo O P ~ .A - "10 -~•:~'•~ ~~s rock,: o 0 0 •. O o e c o 0 0 6 0• o o a O 10 — 3o r.'.-: .- U l! ....t~ , J 0 0 0 G il . A G C 4 J n p A u A Y C A u o o u Y 30 - 56 renton, T A , .. , 0 0 0 0 . 0 . 0 0 .000.0 56 - 664 Black R1Ve1'0 O C 0 c0 ^ 0 0 o o o 0 r n n r r r e 6 6~ - 718
C laZ~ 000.OOOO OOOA OOuOO eocro0 718 61. Company: International i•fetal and Petroleum Corporation Well Name: Quonto-International No. 1 lnascouche Location Lot: 336 Range: iqascouche Parish: l•iascouche County: L'Assomption Coords: 320' from:. LL., 70' from N. LL. Ground Elevation: 57' ItF Elevation: 59' Spudded: Oct. 14, 1957 Suspended: Feb. 8, 1958 Well plugged and abandoned: June 28, 1960 Driller: Logan Brothers Type o Rig: Diamond Drill Result: Dry Hole Water Salty at : 504' Gas at: 391',' 504', 713', 905', 1095' Log by T.H. Clark: Formation Depth interval (in feet) Overburden 0 - 80 Utica .80 - 150 Upper Trenton 150 - 580 Middle Trenton 580 - 734 Lower Trenton 734 - 833 Black River 833 - 903 Chazy 903 - 1108 Beekmantown (Beauharnois) 1108 - 1872 Bcekmantown (MMiarch) 1872 - 2135 Potsdam 2135 - 3328 Precambrian 3328 - 3531 Basic sills were met at 85, 1047 and 1407-1414 feet with thicknesses of 4, and 64 feet, respectively. 62.
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