Mr. John Karagiannidis reports

QIMC ENGAGES ECHO SEISMIC AND STRUM CONSULTING FOR 42-KILOMETRE NOVA SCOTIA 2D SEISMIC PROGRAM

Quebec Innovative Materials Corp. has engaged Calgary-based Echo Seismic Ltd. as seismic contractor and Halifax-based Strum Consulting to provide HSE (health, safety and environmental) and environmental oversight and field co-ordination for the approximately 42-line-kilometre 2-D seismic program across its Bennett Hill-Apple River corridor in Nova Scotia, and is providing details of the planned nine-line survey design.

The Nova Scotia program forms the larger component of the combined approximately 78-line-kilometre 2-D seismic campaign announced by the company on Sept. 8, 2026. Together, the Quebec and Nova Scotia programs represent the largest geophysical campaign undertaken by Quebec Innovative to date.

Echo Seismic will acquire the data using an INOVA Quantum nodal recording system with approximately 1,400 recording channels, five-hertz geophones and 25-metre receiver spacing, with Vibroseis energy sources operating from existing roads. Strum will provide HSE oversight and field co-ordination from its Nova Scotia base. Acquisition is anticipated in fall 2026.

The nine survey lines are positioned along the Bennett Hill-Apple River corridor and have been laid out to test the structural relationships between Quebec Innovative's drill holes with previously reported hydrogen measurements, its surface hydrogen and helium anomalies, interpreted faults and shear zones, basement contacts, and regional Cobequid structures.

Highlights

• Seismic contractor engaged: Echo Seismic, a Calgary-based full-service geophysical contractor with more than 20 years of land seismic experience, including hydrogen and helium applications;
• Nova Scotia project oversight engaged: Strum Consulting, a Halifax-headquartered engineering, surveying and environmental firm, to provide HSE and environmental oversight and field co-ordination;
• Nine-line survey design: approximately 42 line kilometres across five target areas along the Bennett Hill-Apple River corridor, positioned to link the two drilling centres approximately 15 kilometres apart to the broader structural framework;
• High-density acquisition parameters: INOVA Quantum nodal system, approximately 1,400 channels, five Hz geophones and 25-metre receiver spacing;
• Hydrogen and helium: lines are designed to test the structural controls on both surface hydrogen and helium anomalies identified in the company's soil-gas and drilling data set;
• Building on previously reported company-record drilling results: the seismic program will integrate Quebec Innovative's five-hole drilling data set, approximately 6,000 soil-gas samples and ground magnetics.

Why 2-D seismic now: exploration and development sequencing

Quebec Innovative has advanced exploration at Bennett Hill-Apple River in a deliberate sequence designed to progressively reduce geological uncertainty and provide increasingly refined subsurface control.

Unlike mature hydrocarbon basins, where explorers may benefit from extensive legacy well and seismic data, to the company's knowledge, the Bennett Hill-Apple River district had no pre-existing seismic coverage oriented to natural hydrogen targets and no legacy hydrocarbon well control. Quebec Innovative has therefore built its subsurface framework progressively from surface data sets through drilling:

1. Regional geological interpretation using the company's proprietary R2G2 framework;
2. District-scale soil-gas geochemistry - approximately 6,000 samples;
3. Ground magnetics and structural mapping;
4. Validation drilling -- five drill holes, DDH-26-01 through DDH-26-05;
5. District-scale 2-D seismic -- the program detailed in this news release;
6. Targeted characterization drilling, pressure testing and flow testing;
7. Pilot production evaluation.

The 2026 drilling campaign established physical subsurface control and documented hydrogen measurements at depth at two drilling centres approximately 15 kilometres apart. With data from five drill holes now available as geological tie points, Quebec Innovative is positioned to use seismic data to place those occurrences within a broader structural framework.

The approximately 42-line-kilometre 2-D program is designed to image the faults, shear zones, basement contacts and structural intersections that may influence hydrogen migration and accumulation across the Bennett Hill-Apple River corridor. The seismic interpretation will be calibrated against drill information and integrated with Quebec Innovative's soil-gas geochemistry, ground magnetics, geological mapping and regional structural interpretation.

This work is intended to refine the district-scale geological model and identify priority locations for the next phase of characterization drilling, pressure testing, flow testing and accumulation assessment.

"We drilled first to establish whether hydrogen was present at depth and to obtain direct geological control within a district where no legacy well or hydrogen-focused seismic data set existed," said John Karagiannidis, president and chief executive officer of Quebec Innovative. "With hydrogen now identified at two drilling centres approximately 15 kilometres apart and data from five drill holes available for calibration, seismic becomes the next step in our pilot production pathway. Our objective is to understand the structures connecting these occurrences and use that framework to guide the next phase of pressure and flow testing."

Nine-line survey design

The approximately 42-line-kilometre program consists of nine planned 2-D survey segments positioned within Quebec Innovative's broader approximately 43-kilometre Nova Scotia hydrogen exploration corridor. Line positions were selected by integrating the company's drill results, soil-gas geochemistry, ground magnetics and geological mapping with regional structural interpretation, and are distributed across five target areas within the corridor.

Collectively the lines are intended to image the orientation and depth extent of the faults and shear zones, basement contacts, and structural intersections that link the two drilling centres and the company's surface anomalies into a single district-scale geological model. Line design also incorporates the company's surface helium anomalies, which may provide an additional tracer of gas migration along structural pathways.

Planned acquisition parameters

Echo's Vibroseis trucks generate controlled seismic-frequency sweeps at the ground surface from existing roads. Nodal receivers positioned along the survey lines record returning seismic energy, which is processed into 2-D profiles of geological structures and boundaries at depth. The nodal system operates without cables, reducing the footprint of the survey and allowing receiver lines to follow the existing road network. The program requires no line construction, no shot-hole drilling and no explosives, and involves no hydraulic fracturing or reservoir stimulation.

Echo Seismic and Strum Consulting

Echo Seismic is a Calgary, Alberta-based, full-service geophysical exploration contractor with global capabilities and more than 20 years of operating expertise in challenging environments and terrain. Echo specializes in seismic exploration and acquisition, including land seismic programs, and has experience supporting energy, mining, geothermal, carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and helium applications.

Strum Consulting, headquartered in Halifax, N.S., is an Atlantic Canadian engineering, surveying and environmental consulting firm. Strum's engagement provides Quebec Innovative with Nova Scotia-based HSE and environmental oversight and field co-ordination, supporting engagement with landowners and communities along the survey lines, and the safe and responsible execution of the campaign.

"Together, the Quebec and Nova Scotia programs represent the largest geophysical campaign undertaken by QIMC to date," Mr. Karagiannidis added. "For the Nova Scotia program, Echo brings more than two decades of land seismic experience and acquisition capability, while Strum provides Nova Scotia-based environmental and HSE oversight. This combination gives us both the technical capability and local project oversight required to execute the program to a high standard for our shareholders and for the communities that host us."

Next steps

Following field acquisition, the seismic data will be processed and interpreted, and the resulting structural framework integrated with the company's existing drilling, geochemical, geophysical and geological data sets, and its R2G2 framework, as described in the company's Sept. 8, 2026, news release. The integrated interpretation is intended to define priority locations for the next phase of targeted characterization drilling, pressure testing, flow testing and accumulation characterization to support the company's pilot production pathway.

The company will provide updates on acquisition progress and subsequent interpretation as the program advances.

About Quebec Innovative Materials Corp.

Quebec Innovative Materials is a North American exploration and development company advancing a portfolio of natural hydrogen and critical-mineral projects, with properties in Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Minnesota, United States.

The company applies its proprietary R2G2 (reactivated rift and graben geostructure) exploration framework, developed in collaboration with INRS, and is focused on responsible exploration, technical innovation and the advancement of natural hydrogen opportunities that may contribute to future clean-energy development.

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