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(On-Line Table and Core Reservations)
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The Ministry
of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Core Facility is a large building complex located
in Charlie Lake at Mile 52 ½ of the Alaska Highway. The building is
focused on providing a central storage warehouse and research examination
facility for core recovered from oil & gas well drilling operations, CBG cored wells and drill cuttings collected from oil &
gas well drilling. The Core Facility building was also given the name,
the Dave Johnson Building, in honour of past contributions to the local
oil and gas industry of BC.
The Core
Facility is divided into four functional areas: a business
reception area, a core & drill cuttings processing area, a core &
drill cuttings examination area with examination tables and booths, and
the warehouse storage area. In the processing and examination areas, a
dedicated staff of three skilled individuals and, when needed, other
temporary staff, provide the administrative, and technical support for the
receipt and storage of core & drill cuttings and assisting clients
using the facility.
The Core Facility
contains all core and drill cuttings samples for oil and gas
wells drilled in British Columbia. It serves as a research and educational
facility for the oil and gas industry, the geological community, academic
institutions, and the general public.
The core and drill cuttings facility contains a collection of over 6,200
cored wells and over 17,000 wells with drill cuttings which represent an
important historic and scientific information source. The core facility
is a physical example of the Government of British Columbia's commitment to
the advancement of natural resource science and continued support for the responsible development of the oil and gas industry for the benefit of
BC.
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Act plus the Drilling and Production
Regulation and the Petroleum and Natural Gas General Regulation outline
the requirements for companies to submit cores and drill cuttings from any
well drilled within the province. The storage of cores & drill
cuttings and the provision of facilities for their examination by the
Government of BC ensures oil and gas exploration companies,
academic institutions, the general public and other natural resource
oriented groups such as hard rock mining and environmentalists benefit. A
central core research facility provides technical, educational and
corporate benefits that would otherwise be unobtainable or costly to
obtain.
The core facility
and its collection are open to all interested parties. The well-lit and
spacious facility offers year-round heated and carpeted indoor viewing of
samples and cores. There are ten core examination tables with fully height
adjustable roller tables and a sliding table tray for both microscope,
examination tools, and note taking. There is also an area with two
examination tables which can be reserved by company staff to view and
examine their 'confidential' core. There are three sample viewing booths set
up to allow individuals to both view well drill cuttings through
microscopes and correlate their interpretations to core examinations.
The
Core Facility is located at Mile 52 1/2, Alaska Highway, Charlie Lake,
British Columbia, V0C 1H0. The
warehouse and examination tables or booths are open to all members of the
public from Monday to Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The Core Facility Business
office can be reached by telephone (250) 262-3309
or Fax (250) 262-3316.
Last Updated:
June 23, 2006
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