BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



Vol. 4, pp. 241-244 May 20, 1893 



NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF PETROLEUM IN GASPE, 



QUEBEC 



BY H. P. H. BRUMELL 



(Read before the Society December 30, 1892) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Earlier History 241 



The Locality indicated 2-11 



The Oil-bearing Formation described 241 



Former Knowledge concerning the Locality 242 



Kecent Exploitation 243 



History of later Operations not fully known 24 ' 



Notes on past and present Investigations 243 



Continuation of Investigations probable 244 



Earlier History, 



The Locality indicated. — Operations in search of petroleum have been 

 carried on in a desultory manner for about 30 years in the vicinity of 

 Gaspe basin, Gaspe county, Quebec, without as yet any economic result. 

 The presence of oil at depth has, however, been proved through the 

 efforts of " The Petroleum Trust," an English company, which has been 

 operating on the southwest side of Gaspe bay, in the neighborhood of 

 and to the south of Gaspe basin. 



The Oil-bearing Formation described.— in the eastern part of the Gaspe" 

 peninsula there is a great thickness of sandstones resting conformably 

 upon almost as great a thickness of limestones, the whole being of lower 

 Devonian and possibly partly Upper Silurian age. According to Dr R. 

 W. Ells* these sandstones have a thickness of about 3,000 feet, while the 



* Report of Progress, Geol. Survey of Canada, 1880-82, p. 5 D D. 

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