Presenting at the EAGE Conjugate Margins Conference
The Geological Carbon Storage Atlas of Eastern Canada, commissioned by Natural Resources Canada with support from Deep Sky and completed in conjunction with CanmetENERGY, will be presented by Neil Hackett at the 9th EAGE Conjugate Margin Conference & Exhibition. This presentation highlights the quantitative evaluation of deep saline CCS storage potential in the South Whale Basin, offshore Newfoundland. This Mesozoic basin hosts two stacked storage complexes (aquifer–seal pairs), locally sourced from surrounding structural highs and comparable in age to producing formations in the Scotian and Jeanne d’Arc basins. These complexes feature thick, laterally extensive aquifers with high porosity and permeability, overlain by regionally continuous, high quality sealing shales. Both complexes are at depths and pressures where CO₂ is supercritical, offering favourable conditions for large scale, long term geological storage. Interestingly, this Mesozoic basin’s evolution is strongly influenced by the Newfoundland–Gibraltar Transform Fault Zone, producing substantial sediment accommodation through mobilized autochthonous salt structures in the northwest and volcanic and volcaniclastic input from seamounts in the southeast.
