Helium Exploration
C2S Resources is exploring in southern Alberta for He-rich gas in an area with high potential that we believe has all the necessary ingredients for a new Helium production fairway.
C2S Resources is uniquely positioned to unlock natural Helium & Nitrogen accumulations sourced from radiogenic Archean basement in southern Alberta because we integrate three things that almost no one else does:
1) Deep Shield-to-Basin geological intelligence
v Our team brings rare, integrated expertise in Archean Shield geology, basement structures, and Western Canada Basin stratigraphy. We understand not just where helium is generated, but how it migrates, traps, and accumulates in real geological systems — something conventional petroleum explorers and hard-rock geologists cannot do alone.
2) Petroleum-system thinking applied to non-petroleum fluids
v We apply proven petroleum-system workflows — source, migration, charge, trap, seal, and preservation — to helium. This allows us to move beyond surface anomalies and into predictive, basin-scale process definition, dramatically improving prospect generation and capital efficiency.
3) Advanced geophysics and data-driven analysis
v C2S is a small and very agile company that integrates modern seismic reprocessing, gravity, magnetics, and structural restoration with data analytics and AI-assisted interpretation to assess He gas data, image basement architecture, fault-controlled migration pathways, and trap geometries that control where helium and can accumulate.
The C2S Helium Play Concept :
A linear basement hinge zone extending ~200 km from south of Calgary, Alberta to northern Montana has induced a zone with a high density of faulting at the basement and lower Paleozoic level. Structural inversion of faults during Laramide compression created numerous large Helium traps. The faulting has also provided ample pathways for deep circulating fluids to induce secondary porosity in the primary target Basal Cambrian Sandstone, and created pathways for Helium to migrate from the radiogenic Archean basement of southern Alberta and northern Montana into overlying traps in the Basal Cambrian Sandstone and secondary Beaverhill Lake Dolomite reservoir, which are sealed by anhydrites. Thermal release of helium from granitic basement was induced by an Eocene dyke swarm approximately 20 million years after the traps were formed. The play concept is proven in SE Alberta, SW Saskatchewan, and northern Montana. C2S is extending the play to south-central Alberta, into a new fairway thus far overlooked by the Helium industry.
Each of C2S’ two top-ranked Helium prospects are large enough have the potential to double Canada’s 2025 He output.
Total Field Aeromagnetic map with interpreted dyke swarm.
Basement time structure map illustrating two large closures
