Québec Innovative Materials Corp. has launched a district-scale 2D seismic campaign totalling approximately 78 line-kilometres across its natural hydrogen projects in Québec and Nova Scotia.

The program includes an approximately 36 line-kilometre survey at the Témiscamingue clean natural hydrogen project in Québec and an approximately 42 line-kilometre survey across the Nova Scotia natural hydrogen district. The road-based Vibroseis surveys are non-invasive, requiring no shot-hole drilling, explosives, hydraulic fracturing or reservoir stimulation.

In Québec, the seismic program will map structures associated with hydrogen anomalies identified through previous soil-gas surveys and drilling at St-Bruno-de-Guigues. The work will refine the district-scale geological model developed with INRS under the company’s R2G2™ exploration framework. The Témiscamingue project is where this proprietary framework was first validated through exploration. Following field acquisition, the Québec program will undergo data processing, interpretation and integration with existing exploration datasets.

The Nova Scotia program comprises nine planned survey segments across an approximate 43-kilometre exploration corridor, supported by private land authorization. The survey will integrate with a five-hole drilling campaign, soil-gas samples, ground magnetics and geological mapping. Following field acquisition, the Nova Scotia seismic data will undergo processing, interpretation and integration with drilling and geochemical datasets.

Québec Innovative Materials plans subsequent phases of drilling, pressure testing, flow testing and accumulation characterization to define priority targets following the seismic programs in both provinces.

“This combined 78-kilometre 2D seismic campaign represents an important transition for QIMC from discovery toward the next phase of our pilot production pathway,” said President and CEO John Karagiannidis. “We have demonstrated high hydrogen concentrations at depth at two drilling centres approximately 15 kilometres apart in Nova Scotia and identified surface anomalies across an approximately 43-kilometre corridor, and in Québec we have established the hydrogen system that validated our exploration model.”

“The structural information generated by these 2D seismic programs will further define where we should concentrate the next phase of drilling, pressure testing, flow testing and accumulation characterization as we continue advancing our pilot production pathway.”
— John Karagiannidis, President and CEO

The Québec program is being carried out in close partnership with the Témiscamingue First Nation and will be monitored by the Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie.

Read the full announcement: QIMC Launches 78-Kilometre 2D Seismic Campaign Across Quebec and Nova Scotia Natural Hydrogen Districts