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this page | What is the Oil and Gas and Salt Resources Library? The Library is a repository of all well information collected by the Ministry of Natural Resources (Ministry) under the authority of the Oil, Gas and Salt Resources Act and its predecessor legislation. Information and data available for study include over 900 drill cores, drill cuttings samples from 13,000 wells, file information for over 20,000 wells including geophysical logs, formation tops, well history and construction, oil/gas/water zones, oil/gas/water analyses, etc., and records of monthly production of oil, gas and water by well. The Library also maintains an extensive collection of reference books, periodicals and reprints on the subsurface Paleozoic geology and bedrock resources of Ontario. Resources and tools for client use include a study room with semi-private booths and roller tables for indoor viewing of core and cuttings, a petrographic and binocular microscope, photocopying facilities, a GIS workstation, E-plus plotter, colour printer, and a light table. The subsurface geologist of the Ministry is available for consultation. The Library and its data collection are owned by the Ministry of Natural Resources and managed by the Ontario Petroleum Institute under the authority of a trust agreement signed in 1996. The facility is non-profit and funds its operations from annual licence fees on petroleum wells, sample processing fees, sales of data and publications and user fees. It is located at 669 Exeter Road in London, just two minutes off the Wellington/Exeter Road exit ramp of Hwy 401, making it easily accessible from most locations in southwestern Ontario. For more information please visit www.ogsrlibrary.com, or telephone 519-686-2772. The Library also has a mandate for digital data management, GIS applications of digital well data, and scientific research. These will be the subjects of future newsletter articles.
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Geoscientists whose practice does not include the petroleum industry, and this includes most geoscientists in Ontario, are probably not familiar with the Oil, Gas and Salt Resources Library (Library). The Library is a public resource center for the study of the subsurface Paleozoic bedrock geology of Ontario. It specializes in the collection, generation, and dissemination of information and knowledge relevant to the oil, gas, salt and underground hydrocarbon storage industries. Consequently, most of its traditional clients are employed in these industries, however, the data managed by the Library is also invaluable to all geoscience studies related to the Paleozoic bedrock of Ontario. Examples of such studies are groundwater resource assessment, source water protection and risk assessment, suitability of bedrock for underground storage, construction of tunnels in bedrock, karst studies, exploration for mineable bedrock resources, identification of natural hazards (i.e. fluoride in groundwater), mapping of faults, mapping of drift thickness and bedrock topography, mapping of bedrock lithology, etc.