| OGSR Wireline
By OGSR Library
October 2019
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Hi ,
Welcome to the final quarterly edition of OGSR Wireline in 2019.
We have been busy beginning new QA/QC projects, expanding our virtual reality experiences and welcoming back some old faces! This edition will outline what our staff has been achieving, NEW products we have released and upcoming events where you can meet our group!
Keep exploring!
OGSR Library Team
Jordan, Matt, Craig, Alex, Shuo & Candace
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Staying Busy with Outreach & GIS
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Geology Update - All for Lockport
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Return of the GOAT (Island)
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Monthly Drilling Report - September 2019
by OGSR Library Team
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Summer of 2019 was another busy one for the Library and our outreach efforts. We got out to see some new geological sites in Ontario, visited a couple active rigs, and reached a lot of people with our new virtual reality video.
Figure 1: Virtual reality at PDAC, visiting an active rig in the field to learn about cable tool drilling, getting a new perspective on what’s in our sample vials at Limehouse (left to right).
What V R up to: Our biggest development of the year is our virtual reality video. The video features over 50 of Ontario’s sedimentary geologic layers. These layers were developed by the Geological Survey of Canada using data from the OGSR Library as a primary data source. The video is in a stereoscopic 360-degree format and if you haven’t seen it yet swing by the Library to view it on a VR headset. We also have the capabilities to extend the VR technology to custom videos for
those interested in pitching in VR.
Core and chip photos: By the end of this year we will have a couple thousand more core boxes captured in our core photography project. Growing our library of digitized cores makes it easier to work remotely or preview hundreds of boxes quickly to find your formation of interest. Right now photos are only available as one-time purchases but we are working on ways to make previews accessible.
Our library of sample chips photos also continues to grow thanks to some of our recent projects. Some of you have already seen our KML preview of this layer and we’re working on improving this for a general release.
New season of geology quality assurance: We have two (one new and one returning) geology staff working to improve the quality of geologic formation top picks in our database. Improvements will be ongoing for about 18 months and members will have access to the new picks online by selecting the “Geology by MNR” data source at the top of the geology list. Efforts will focus on formations in the Lockport group and other formations where we have good digital porosity and permeability
data.
Rock Talks and More
By Matt
We’ve been making progress on our YouTube series Rock Talks, our EPEX conference videos, and our VR projects. Here’s what been happening since we last met.
Our YouTube series Rock Talks now has six episodes available to watch with two more episodes on their way to finish up the season. Since my last article we’ve released an episode about fossil hunting at the Formosa reef, and a two parter about geology jobs. Part one focuses on tips for landing your first geology job and part two has advice from experienced geologists. The two remaining episodes include one about Rock Glen Conservation Area, and the finale covers tips for preparing for field
camp. We’ve had to delay the final two episodes due to our hosts going back to school, but you can expect them very soon.
We’re close to releasing our EPEX 2019 videos. I’m busy putting finishing touches on the three block one presentations, which will be uploaded to YouTube soon. Block one focuses on oil and gas exploration. Up first will be Jonathan Garrett’s talk ‘Integrating Large Subsurface Databases in the Michigan Basin for Analyses of Field Redevelopment Strategies’, followed by Bill Van Sickel and Colin Gray’s presentation ‘Recent Resurgence in the Devonian Dundee Play – Central Michigan Basin’, and
finishing the first block will be Terry Carter with his talk ‘A 3-D Tour of the Paleozoic Bedrock Geology of Southern Ontario’. We hope you will enjoy these videos.
Our popular VR demo will soon be on YouTube as well! We’re really looking forward to sharing this one online. We’ve added ambient sounds, music, and other finishing touches to add to the experience. It was recently shown at the Lambton Doors Open event and received a lot of positive feedback.
In other VR news we’re putting together a video of the glacial geology tour from the EPEX 2019 conference that we will be uploading online. Led by geologist Shuo Sun, the tour provides a fresh look at London Ontario and the rocks beneath your feet here at home. Footage was captured in a 360 degree format and the uploaded video will allow you to click and drag with your mouse to look around, providing an immersive experience even if you don’t have a VR headset.
All of this and more coming soon. Head over to our YouTube page if you haven’t been keeping up and check us out!
Staying Busy with Outreach & GIS
By Craig
The 2019 Pools and Pipelines Map is available!
Thank you to those who have already purchased their own for supporting the Library!
This year’s map has updated pool boundaries, cumulative & annual production data. We are looking for sponsors for the maps in 2020-2022. $150 gets you two advertisement blocks and more information can be found on our website. Don’t miss out on this exciting (and bargain priced) advertising opportunity.
The Library was invited to exhibit at the Oil Museum of Canada for Doors Open Lambton on Saturday, September 28th. Alex and I were able to share the OGSR Library subsurface geology virtual reality experience with over 80 at the event! A big thanks to the Oil Museum for inviting us and giving us the opportunity to meet the community members from around Oil Springs.
Members of the Library staff, including myself, will be exhibiting at Western’s GIS Day Open House on Wednesday November 13th. We will have our virtual reality headsets with us, a great example of how GIS can be integrated with geology. The event is open to the public and will be held in the Map & Data Centre from 9:30-4 pm. For more information https://www.lib.uwo.ca/madgic/gisday.html.
The past few months have been quite interesting here at OGSR Library. I’ve been doing Quality Assessment and Quality Control (QA/QC) of the Lockport group. My recurring tasks include updating the formation tops of the Lockport group by looking at geophysical logs, drill cuttings, and cores to identify the different lithologies and to record how the different formations within the Lockport Group vary regionally. This is a 3-year long
project with different parts involving OGSR Library geologists; Dr. Shuo Sun is doing the rock core analysis in order to quantify the porosity and permeability of the Lockport Group and Candace will be doing geology QA for wells that penetrated the Devonian, Silurian, and Ordovician formations in Ontario. The overarching goal of the project is to update the subsurface database of southern Ontario and incorporate it into the 3-D lithostratigraphic model which can be used for different purposes in
the energy sector.
The OGSR Library team has also been involved in other activities. We were invited to the opening of the Richard Hutchinson Geoscience Collaborative Suite at Western University last week; it was an honour to be part of the guests. Two weeks ago, we also exhibited at the Oil Museum of Canada, as their staff invited us for a Doors Open Event in Lambton County. We were able to share some of the products and services that the OGSR Library offers with the public, like our
virtual reality video of southern Ontario which helps people to understand the subsurface Geology of Ontario.
Geology Update - All for Lockport
By Dr. Shuo Sun
Starting from this June, I’m a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario. Currently, I’m taking on a geologic project on the study of the variant porosity and permeability in the Lockport Group.
In southwestern Ontario, the Lockport Group is a succession of marine carbonate rocks of Silurian Wenlock age (433-427 Ma), comprising in ascending order, the: Gasport, Goat Island, Eramosa, and Guelph formations. It is of economic interest as a source of potable water at shallow depths (<250m depth), and production of oil/natural gas and storage of natural gas in the deeper subsurface.
In 2018, the OGSR Library in London compiled a database of porosity and permeability estimates from 491 petroleum core analyses, within which 155 have captured the Lockport Group and A1 Carbonate. This new data set, in combination with outcrop sections, newly drilled cores, geophysical well logs, and drill cuttings, will be utilized to document the regional variations in porosity and permeability in the Lockport Group at the formation
level.
In the past three months, the recurring tasks include, for each well from the core analysis database:
1. Geology QA/QC of the formational tops of A1-Carb to Rochester using well logs (gamma-ray, neutron and density), cores and drill cuttings of the 155 wells.
2. QA/QC of the core analysis data for the Lockport Group and the Salina A-1 Unit. Retrieve and summarize laboratory protocols and standards from 14 different laboratories for normalizing data fields in the petroleum well core analysis database.
3. Creating stratigraphic columns with plotted porosity/permeability data, vectorized geophysical well logs (Gamma-Ray, Neutron and Density logs), and water/oil records for each well in the core analysis database.
This project will run for the next two years. The expected result of this study is an improved representation of the continuity/discontinuity of bedrock flowzones, relationships to hydrocarbon traps, isolation of deeper underground bedrock formations from interaction with meteoric water, and the incorporation of this data into 3-D lithostratigraphic framework of southwestern Ontario. This project will possibly shed new insights into
oil/gas field exploration. Furthermore, the groundwater and energy storage industries in Ontario will benefit from this project by having a synthetic geologic and geographic information of targeted subsurface bedrock formations for better development of future working plans. Hopefully, in the future, Ontario industries can apply our updated geologic model in their projects for further refining of construction site selections, land use and other related works.
Return of the GOAT (Island)
By Candace
Hello!
After two years away, I am very excited to be back at the OGSR Library working as a Quality Control Geologist. This fall, the OGSR Library geological team will be working towards refining and improving our geological database collection pertaining to the 3-D lithostratigraphic model of the Paleozoic bedrock of Southern Ontario. Geological quality control checks will be performed on the Ontario Petroleum Data System’s (OPDS) top-unit bedrock formation picks using
geophysics, cores, and drill cuttings. We plan to focus on geographical areas where geological uncertainty and unreliability have presented to be a challenge, this includes examining formations of the Middle-Lower Devonian, Lockport and Upper Ordovician. These improvements will benefit library clients by providing them with geological data that is both accurate and current with academic research.
On another note, this past month the OGSR Library team was invited to Western’s Grand opening of the Richard Hutchinson Geoscience Collaborative Suite. The Collections Suite will be home to several very prestigious mineral collections including the G. Gordon Suffel Collection and the Dana Collection. During my undergraduate studies I had the pleasure of helping Dr. Roberta Flemming with parts of these collections, and after several years
of being in storage, the Department of Earth Science has found a space to display these world class minerals. The Collaborative suite is located at the North Campus Building at Western University and Dr. Alysha MacNeil is the curator. Currently, the collections are only available for research, but they will be open for public viewing in September 2020. Below is a photo of one of the mineral displays in the suite.
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September 2019
No New Licences Issued
New Wells TD'd
| Licence No. |
TD Date |
Operator |
County |
Township |
Status |
TD (m) |
| T012604 |
6/29/2019 |
TD 29H (Horiz. #1) |
Lambton |
Moore |
NGS/ACT |
757.6
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| T012607 |
7/13/2019 |
TD 27 |
Lambton |
Moore |
OBS/ACT |
731.4
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Licenses Issued for Existing Wells
| Licence No. |
Issue Date |
Operator |
County |
Township |
Status |
TD (m) |
| T003895 |
9/27/2109 |
NRStor Goderich CAES GP Inc. |
Huron |
Goderich |
CAES |
393 |
| T008004 |
9/27/2019 |
NRStor Goderich CAES GP Inc. |
Huron |
Goderich |
CAES |
498.6
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Plugged Wells
| Licence No. |
Plug Date |
Operator |
County |
Township |
Status |
TD (m) |
| T001255 |
2/22/2019 |
ref_02b727e3ceb1492908a9d87143dee91a |
Norfolk |
Charlotteville |
PGP/ABD |
418.49 |
| T001259 |
1/28/2019 |
ref_02b727e3ceb1492908a9d87143dee91a |
Norfolk |
Charlotteville |
PGP/ABD |
422.76
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| T007967 |
7/27/2019 |
Taqa North Ltd. |
Oxford |
Blenheim |
GP/ABD |
878.4
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| T011389 |
9/10/2019 |
Lambton Area Industries Ltd. |
Lambton |
Enniskillen |
HOP/ABD |
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| T012590 |
3/11/2019 |
ref_6d2b2012befb15d55a2af9ceb4200bb4 |
Norfolk |
Charlotteville |
PGP/ABD |
385.88
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The Oil, Gas & Salt Resources Library is a not-for-profit corporation that manages all of Ontario's public drilling and production data from the petroleum and solution mined salt industries. This includes processing, storing, and providing safe and convenient access to all of the industry's drill core and rock cuttings. The Library makes as much of this data as possible available through our online portal to members all over the world. The financial support of the petroleum industry and
our membership make this possible.
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