Quebec Urged to Consider Utica Shale Natural Gas in …

Natural gas holds the key to achieving French Canada's declared climate change and energy transition policy goals, including tapping abundant Utica Shale reserves, to move Quebec toward an all ...

Quebec's Shale and Tight Resources

In Quebec, oil and gas exploration activities require the obtaining of permits and authorizations issued by the Ministère du Développement …

An overview of Canadian shale gas production and

•. Overview includes facts on fracking, water use, on-going research, public concerns. •. Geological overview of main Canadian shale gas targets. •. Insight into the …

Shale Gas

Shale gas is natural gas found in very fine-grained sedimentary rock. The gas is tightly locked in very small spaces within the reservoir rock requiring advanced technologies to drill and stimulate (fracture) the gas bearing zones. ... Quebec, and New Brunswick. Development of shale gas, and other unconventional resources, will help ensure ...

Natural-Gas Potential in the St. Lawrence Lowlands of Quebec…

Since the announcement made in April 2008 concerning the shale gas potential of the Southern Quebec Lowlands, almost 15 new wells have been drilled in the area. The calcareous and organic-rich ...

Shale gas industry under study by Quebec | CBC News

The Quebec government has ordered the province's environment assessment agency – BAPE – to study shale gas development. Environment Minister Yves-François Blanchet said the BAPE is best ...

The fight to resurrect Quebec's shale gas industry

Quebec has enough natural gas to meet its own needs for an estimated 100 years or more, most of it concentrated along the southern flank of the St. Lawrence River in the province's portion of the ...

Hydrocarbon Resources in the Upper Ordovician Black Shales in Quebec

The Utica Shale (TOC up to 3%) in southern Quebec is in the oil/wet gas domain at the northeastern end of the exposed Ordovician platform although for most of this geol ogical do main, the Utica ...

Quebec between a rock and a hard place on gas from shale

MONTREAL—It is like any other natural gas. Once purified, it's made up of the same carbon and hydrogen atoms. It will flow through a gas stove in exactly the same way.

An overview of Canadian shale gas production and

Highlights. Overview of exploration and production activities related to shale gas in Canada. Overview includes facts on fracking, water use, on-going research, public concerns. Geological overview of main Canadian shale gas targets. Insight into the much publicized de facto moratorium in the province of Quebec.

New Brunswick shows Quebec there's no need to fear shale gas

Once formerly too expensive to produce, shale gas has suddenly become one of the hottest commodities in North America as advanced technologies such as horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing have made recovery of the gas viable, even at relatively low prices.Here in Quebec, various companies are interested in the prospect of …

The Utica Shale and gas play in southern Quebec: …

DOI: 10.1016/J.COAL.2013.10.011 Corpus ID: 129900972; The Utica Shale and gas play in southern Quebec: Geological and hydrogeological syntheses and methodological approaches to groundwater risk evaluation.

Citizens officially win fight to ban oil and gas development in Quebec …

In early February, Le Devoir reported the president of the Quebec Energy Association, Éric Tetrault, said shale gas from the St. Lawrence Valley could represent "lost profits" of $3 billion to $5 ...

Anthropogenic and natural methane emissions from a shale gas …

CH 4 baselines in groundwater used for refining emissions to the atmosphere. Methane fluxes from Quebec Utica shale prospection area evaluated • CH 4 emissions from human abstraction are 300% those of all United Kingdom aquifers. Groundwater discharge is the main CH 4 emission natural source. CH 4 emitted from groundwater …

Upper Ordovician shale gas and oil in Quebec: …

compared to southern Quebec where sediments accumulated in the Quebec Reentrant (Lavoie et al. 2009). The Anticosti Basin recorded first the tectonic foundering of the carbonate margin and the transition to foreland clastics. Moreover, to the contrary of the Utica Shale, the Macasty is overlain by a

Citizens officially win fight to ban oil and gas development in Quebec …

In early February, Le Devoir reported the president of the Quebec Energy Association, Éric Tetrault, said shale gas from the St. Lawrence Valley could represent "lost profits" of $3 billion to $5 billion. Then, on April 12, Tetrault told Le Devoir the oil reserves in the Quebec subsoil were in a financial range of $45 billion to $200 billion.

Quebec finally legally protected against the fossil …

Among the citizen work against fossil fuel extraction, the groups would like to highlight the fights against shale gas in the St. Lawrence Valley, against oil in Anticosti, against the Old Harry project in …

Quebec shale gas moratorium still needed, activists say

And in Quebec City, the Parti Québécois renewed its calls for a full moratorium on shale-gas development, saying such a moratorium is the only reasonable response to the facts and ...

Higgs talks shale gas revival, but global price spike may not last

Todd McDonald, president of Halifax-based gas trading firm Energy Atlantica, said Repsol is unlikely to spend the money required without a 10 or 20-year agreement to lock in a fixed price on ...

The Utica Shale and gas play in southern Quebec: …

The study area is located in the St. Lawrence Lowlands (southern Quebec, Canada), where limited oil and gas exploration and no shale gas production have taken place. A large set of data was collected over a ∼500 km 2 area near a horizontal shale gas exploration well completed and fracked into the Utica Shale at a depth of ≈2 km. To ...

ST. LAWRENCE LOWLANDS — Petrolympic

St. Lawrence Lowlands (Shale Gas and Conventional Gas Plays) Targets: Utica Shale Gas and conventional natural gas. Total Land Package: 674,805 acres (273,085 hectares) Petrolympic owns of 138,754 acres (56,152 hectares) over the St. Lawrence Lowlands shallow sandstones and carbonates platform on the south shore of the St. …

Natural-Gas Potential in the St. Lawrence Lowlands of Quebec:A …

Summary. Since the announcement made in April 2008 concerning the shale-gas potential of the southern Québec lowlands, 30 new wells have been drilled in the area. The calcareous and organic-rich Middle Ordovician Utica shale is the main target of this recent exploration effort. Current knowledge of the area's geology has led operators …

Information about the Eastern Canadian Plays

Quebec's history in shale gas development began in 2008, when Denver-based Forest Oil Corp. announced that it had discovered gas from two vertical pilot wells targeting the Utica Shale on its ...

Understanding Shale Gas in Canada

Shale and mud rich rocks often vary in colour as well as grain size. Colours may vary from dark brown or grey through to black shale (a), like the Utica Formation in Quebec or the shales of the Horn River Basin in British Columbia. In some basins, often the ˚ne grained shale rocks are interbedded with coarser grained siltstones (b).

Quebec moves on shale-gas ban | Financial Post

Debate over shale gas drilling, done through a process of hydraulic fracturing that blasts water and chemicals into rock to allow the gas's release, has been deeply divisive in Quebec. Proponents argue that approving commercialization would unlock an estimated $232-million in revenue for the Quebec government over the first …

An overview of Canadian shale gas production and environmental concerns

As the environmental debate concerning the shale gas industry is rather intense in Quebec, the Utica Shale context is presented in more detail. Rivard, C., D. Lavoie, R. Lefebvre, S. Séjourné, C. Lamontagne, & M. Duchesne (2014) An overview of Canadian shale gas production and environmental concerns, International Journal of Coal …

MINERALOGY AND PORE STRUCTURES OF THE ORDOVICIAN UTICA SHALE IN QUEBEC

The Ordovician Utica marine shale developed on the St. Lawrence Platform of Quebec, Canada is a set of deposits with great potential of shale oil and shale gas. Based on outcrop and drilling core samples, field emission scanning electron microscope, TIMA integrated mineral analysis system and organic geochemical analysis are used to …

Petrophysical properties characterization of Ordovician Utica gas shale

Petrophysical properties characterization of Ordovician Utica gas shale in Quebec, Canada BAI Baojun1,*, ELGMATI Malek2, SUN Yongpeng3, LIU Lingbo1 1. Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, 65401 United States; 2. Hess Corporation, Houston, Texas 77010, USA; 3. ... Polished shale gas samples were used …

Shale Gas Potential of the Quebec Sedimentary Basins*

Shale Gas Potential of the Quebec Sedimentary Basins*. Jean-Sebastien Marcil1, Jeremie Lavoie1, Peter K. Dorrins1, and Valérie Lavoie1. Search and Discovery Article #80073 (2009) Posted December 4, 2009. *Adapted from oral presentation at 2009 AAPG Eastern Section Meeting, Evansville, Indiana, September 20-22, 2009.

An overview of Canadian shale gas production and …

This paper describes the status of shale gas exploration and production in Canada, including discussions on geological contexts of the main shale formations containing …

Exploration and Production of Shale and Tight Resources

In 2014, shale gas accounted for approximately 4 percent of total Canadian natural gas production while tight gas accounted for 47 percent. By 2035, the Canada Energy ... New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Quebec. From 2005 to 2008, higher oil prices gave companies the incentive to apply technologies used to produce shale and tight …

Five Recommendations That Will Shape Québec's Shale Gas …

Five Recommendations That Will Shape Québec's Shale Gas Industry . Home. Canada. Corporate/Commercial Law. CONTRIBUTOR. Most Read: Contributor Canada, March 2024. ARTICLE. Share. Forward this article Save & File (Pocket) LinkedIn ...

Quebec – Questerre Energy

Quebec – Questerre Energy. Quebec. Giant natural gas discovery with near-zero emissions Clean Gas for local demand. The Lowlands are situated in Quebec, south of the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City. Building a circular economy on a significant discovery on Quebec Utica could result in the second lowest supply gas cost …

Higgs pitches First Nations on up to $1.6B in revenue with …

Premier Blaine Higgs is pitching First Nations on hefty revenue potential if they agree to allow new shale gas development in New Brunswick. But at least one Mi'kmaw chief is already standing in ...

The Upper Ordovician black shales of southern Quebec

The Utica Shale has been considered a good quality source rock for decades and is the unit with the best shale gas potential in southern Quebec (Hamblin, 2006, Lavoie et al., 2008, Chen et al., 2014, Haeri-Ardakani et al., 2015). However, the Utica Shale is not the only OM-rich unit, and coeval or younger hydrocarbon-charged …

Standards and Regulations | Shale Gas in Quebec

The shale gas industry in Quebec is regulated under the Mining Act and the Environmental Quality Act. In addition to obtaining various government authorizations, we must comply with a number of laws and regulations: The Ministère …

An overview of Canadian shale gas production and

Geological overview of main Canadian shale gas targets. •. Insight into the much publicized de facto moratorium in the province of Quebec. Production of …

Canadian Court Blocks Part of Quebec's Ban on O&G Drilling

The province of Quebec, Canada, with a huge supply of Utica Shale gas sitting beneath it, passed a new law in April 2022 — Bill 21 — outlawing all oil and natural gas production throughout the province (see Quebec Pulls Trigger & Commits Energy Suicide – Bans All O&G Prod.It was a breathtaking grab of totalitarian power. It's also …