| Titre | Assessing groundwater vulnerability to shale gas activities in the Sussex area, southern New Brunswick / Évaluation de la vulnérabilité des aquifères à l'exploitation du gaz de shale dans la région de
Sussex dans le sud du Nouveau-Brunswick |
| Télécharger | Téléchargement (publication entière) |
| Auteur | Rivard, C |
| Source | Public presentations: Environmental Geoscience Program, current status of research projects, May 2017; par Jacob, N; Ahad, J; Gammon, P; Rivard, C; Kao, H; White, D; Parsons, M; Galloway, J; Commission
géologique du Canada, Présentation scientifique 70, 2017 p. 32-48, https://doi.org/10.4095/304683 (Accès ouvert) |
| Année | 2017 |
| Éditeur | Ressources naturelles Canada |
| Document | publication en série |
| Lang. | anglais |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4095/304683 |
| Media | en ligne; numérique |
| Référence reliée | Cette publication est contenue dans Jacob, N;
Ahad, J; Gammon, P; Rivard, C; Kao, H; White, D; Parsons, M; Galloway, J; (2017). Public presentations: Environmental Geoscience Program, current status of research projects, May 2017, Commission géologique du Canada, Présentation scientifique no.
70 |
| Formats | pptx; pdf |
| Province | Nouveau-Brunswick |
| SNRC | 21H/10; 21H/11; 21H/12; 21H/13; 21H/14; 21H/15; 21I/02; 21I/03; 21I/04 |
| Lat/Long OENS | -65.5842 -64.9228 46.0244 45.5872 |
| Sujets | etudes de l'environnement; effets sur l'environnement; substances polluantes; géologie du substratum rocheux; lithologie; roches sédimentaires; ampélites; grès; caractéristiques structurales; failles; eau
souterraine; aquifères; résurgence des eaux souterraines; écoulement de la nappe d'eau souterraine; mouvement des eaux souterraines; ressources pétrolières; hydrocarbures; gaz; méthane; ethane; condensat; fracturation hydraulique; migration des
fluides; fluage; roches reservoirs; qualité de l'eau; géochimie des eaux souterraines; puits de gaz; puits de pétrole; puits d'observation; échantillons de sondage; géochimie des éléments majeurs; géochimie des éléments en trace; métaux; isotopes;
trous de mine; diagraphie géophysique; diagraphie des sondages; échantillons carrotés; interprétations géophysiques; interpretations sismiques; analyses hydrauliques; hydraulique; salinité; établissement de modèles; Argile d'Utica ; Membre d'Hiram
Brook ; Membre de Frederick Brook ; Groupe de Lorraine ; Groupe de Trenton ; Groupe de Windsor ; Groupe de Mabou ; Groupe d'Horton ; approvisionnement en eau; géologie de l'environnement; combustibles fossiles; hydrogéologie; géologie structurale;
géophysique; géologie de l'ingénieur; géochimie; Phanérozoïque; Paléozoïque; Carbonifère; Dévonien |
| Illustrations | location maps; photographs; schematic cross-sections; geological sketch maps; stratigraphic cross-sections; stratigraphic charts; 3-D images; seismic profiles; graphs; stratigraphic columns; core
logs; photographs; spectra |
| Programme | Géosciences
environnementales, Gestion du programme |
| Programme | Initiative écoÉNERGIE sur
l'innovation |
| Programme | Le Programme de
recherche et de développement énergétiques (PRDE) |
| Diffusé | 2017 09 14 |
| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
A project studying potential hydrocarbon migration through natural pathways or fracking-induced fractures from deep (~2 km) Carboniferous shale or tight sand
units to shallow aquifers was initiated in 2015 in the Sussex area, southern New Brunswick. The study area includes the McCully gas field that has been in production since 2001 and the Elgin field that is investigated for its condensate potential.
Because the intermediate zone located between shallow aquifers and units targeted for hydrocarbon production is poorly characterized, this project relies on the integration of data from different earth science disciplines, including geology,
geophysics, geomechanics, hydrogeology and water and rock geochemistry.
Fieldwork in 2016-2017 comprised the drilling of observation wells, borehole geophysics, hydraulic tests and groundwater and rock sampling. Initial groundwater chemistry
shows that only a few wells contain methane (< 5 mg/L) with either a thermogenic (McCully gas field) or a microbial (Elgin area) signature. One well in the McCully gas field showed some ethane in groundwater, as well as small amounts of gaseous
methane in core samples, while drill cuttings revealed the presence of long-chain hydrocarbons. Rock-Eval analyses of shallow cores showed very low S1, S2 and TOC values, except for that specific well. 3-D seismic data have been reprocessed and the
resulting geological interpretation revealed that faults are mostly confined within the Horton Group, where the two units targeted by the industry are located. In addition, the geomechanical study concluded that the intermediate zone provides an
effective barrier to induced fractures, based on well logs. The development of numerical groundwater flow models (from 1D to 3D) is ongoing. This study will provide a scientific basis to support informed decisions by provincial authorities on future
hydrocarbon development. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 304683 |
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