Block of permits: 23
Pétrolia’s interests: 100 %
Surface Area : 
3 777 km²
933 181 acres
 
Access:
Roads and logging roads

Features:

• Excellent regional seismic coverage
• Many oil seeps
• Possibility of very interesting deposits

Age:
Ordovician
Type black shale

Objectives:
Short-term strategy
Find oil at less than 1,000 m

Work:
Seismic survey work
Drilling work

Block of permits: 8
Pétrolia’s interests:
Right of first refusal
Surface area :
1 757 km²
434 248 acres

Access:
Roads and good logging roads
Mountainous region

Features:

• Typical fold-and-thrust belts
• Major unexploited potential

Work:
Long-term strategy
Very high operation costs

Block of permits: 11
Pétrolia’s interests: 100 %
Surface Area :
2 620 km²
647 320 acres

Access:
Logging roads
Mountainous region

Features:

• Little regional seismic coverage
• Only one drilling carried out
• The largest anticline

Age:
Shallow Silurian and Ordovician
Cambian et Ordovician for 2-3 km

Block of permits: 12
Pétrolia’s interests: 100 %
Surface Area :
2 390 km²
590 658 acres 

Features:

• No exploration work before 2002
• No drilling carried out
• Little seismic coverage
• Two structural corridors

Age :
Devonian, Silurian and Ordovician

Block of permits: 4
Pétrolia’s interests:
Under 100% option
Surface Area:
1 385 km²
342 268 acres

Features:

• Sector with low level of exploration
• Large gas potential

Work:
New 50 km seismic surveys

Bloc of permits: 22
Pétrolia's interests:
Right of first refusal
Surface Area :
4 124 km²
1 019 100 acres

Access:
Roads and logging roads

Features:

• Two seismic surveys completed 
• No drilling done
• Two seismic surveys completed
• Sedimentary basin unexplored   

Age :
Roches affleurantes siluriennes
Ordovicien à carbonifère

Travaux : 
Long term strategy
Very high operation costs

Permit block: 38, held jointly with Corridor Resources Inc.

Pétrolia's interest:

• Pétrolia the operator on 23 permits (431,046 ha.) with a 50% interest;
• Corridor the operator on 15 permits (207,060 ha.). Pétrolia has an interest of 25 to 50%
  

Area: 64,666 km2 (646,549 ha.)

Highlights:

• Huge area with limited access
• Little exploration (17 wells)
• Good-quality regional seismics
• Comparable to producing areas in the northern United States  

Objectives:

The targeted traps are associated with hydrothermal dolomites in Lower and Upper Ordovician limestones.

Permit Block: 3 

Area: 682 km2 (68,163 ha.)

Highlights:

• Easy access

   

•  No previous oil-exploration activity
• Geology relatively well understood
• Gas showings in equivalent rocks in southern Gaspé region

   

Objectives:

Exploration for traps in fractured Ordovician volcanic rocks in the core of a vast anticlinal structure.

Access: Logging roads
Mountainous area with paved secondary road

Highlights:

• Largely unexplored area
• Oil and gas potential 

Age:
Devonian and Silurian at depths of 0.5-2 km

Objectives:
Interpretations of seismic surveys

Work:
Thermal-maturation study

Nombre de permis (bloc) : 2

Intérêt de Pétrolia : 100 %

Superficie : 3 km2

Accès : Chemins forestiers en région montagneuse;

Cibles : Réservoirs de grès et de dolomies hydrothermales du Silurien jusqu’à 2500 mètres de profondeur;

Caractéristiques : Faible niveau d’exploration régionale;
Couverture sismique régionale récente (programme sismique du MRN 2001);
Aucun forage sur la propriété mais quelques forages réalisés
dans le secteur;
Secteur à potentiel pétrolier et gazier;