Geological Carbon Storage Atlas of Eastern Canada

Quebec and Atlantic Canada

Overview

Geologic CO2 storage is essential to carbon management and contributing to the goals of achieving net- zero for Canada and its provinces/territories. Globally, it is anticipated that 95% of all CO2 captured will need to be permanently stored (IEA 2020).

Project Objectives

The objectives of the project are to provide a consistent regional analysis that catalogues opportunities, economics & risks for CCS in Eastern Canada (QC and Atlantic Canada). This gap must be filled to ensure the successful development of CCS, as both the quantification of CO2 storage & the estimation of area-specific CCS costs are critically needed.

Why?

This project will provide the necessary information for industry, government, Indigenous groups, and the public to support the development of CCS.

Our Experience

CDL has comprehensive CCUS project experience across North America including British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and the southern U.S. Gulf Coast. Explore our project timeline below to learn more about these projects, or contact us.

Alberta Carbon Storage Atlas – Leduc and Cooking Lake Chapter

  • A regional screening assessment focused on characterizing the prospective storage resource in the Leduc and Cooking Lake aquifers in Alberta
  • Hydrodynamic analysis of the regional flow system and an assessment of reservoir pressure and temperature conditions

NE BC Geological Carbon Capture and Storage Atlas

  • Evaluates the CO₂ storage potential by formation, as well as providing a summary of overall CO₂ storage potential in the region
  • Focuses on saline aquifers and depleted (or nearly depleted) gas pools

Carbon Capture and Storage Potential, NE BC (93-P)

  • Identify and screen potential storage complexes suitable for the injection of approximately 40 Kt per year of CO₂, with an estimated storage capacity of 0.8 to 1 Mt over a 20-25 year project life

Carbon Storage Potential Assessment of Fernie Basin

  • Evaluated geological and hydrodynamic properties of the formations to determine their suitability for CO₂ storage
  • Storage potential was estimated for selected storage complexes with sufficient porosity, net reservoir thickness and containment

Alberta Carbon Storage Atlas – Basal Cambrian Sandstone Chapter

  • Characterized the prospective storage resource in the Basal Cambrian Sandstone saline aquifer in Alberta
  • Examines the potential storage resource available in over 2,650 townships or about 250,000 square kilometers

Southern AB and SK Regional CCS Screening Study

  • Identify and develop the CO₂ storage potential of saline aquifers suitable within southern Alberta and Saskatchewan
  • Estimates of high-level reservoir parameters and distribution of suitable aquifers

NE BC CCUS Scoping Project

  • Identified potential storage complexes in Northeast British Columbia with a risked storage capacity greater than 25 megatonnes (MT)
  • Building on a previous regional scale scoping study that evaluated all basins in BC for CO₂ sequestration potential

Southern Gulf Coast: CCUS Phase 1 – Depleted Pools, Carbon Axiom JV

  • An online tool developed in partnership with TGS to screen and assess depleted oil and gas pools for suitability to sequester CO₂ and as EOR candidates across southeastern Texas, southern Louisiana and southern Mississippiip
  • Standardized attributes provide a basis to compare and rank CO₂ storage opportunities over large areas based on estimates of CO₂ storage capacity, uncertainties and risk elements

Regional Screening Level CO2 EOR Study

  • Objective was to analyze the oil reservoirs in central Alberta to develop and catalogue an understanding of CO₂ miscible flood enhanced oil recovery opportunities

West-Central AB Regional CCS Screening Study

  • A geological and hydrological assessment of the deep Paleozoic saline aquifers in west-central Alberta
  • Foundational to a successful application for a CCS permit to explore granted by the Alberta government

Calgary Area CCUS Feasibility Study

  • A detailed geological and hydrological assessment of the Paleozoic saline aquifers east of Calgary
  • Identify and characterize the subsurface geology focusing on saline aquifers and aquitards

Greater Sundance CCUS Study

  • A high-level regional geological assessment of the Paleozoic saline aquifers within the Greater Sundance area
  • Paleozoic aquifers evaluated and recommended for further study included the Cambrian Lynx, Devonian Leduc and Permian Belloy formations

Hydrogeological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

  • Builds upon the iconic Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (Mossop and Shetsen, 1994), and synthesizes the wealth of formation fluid data to produce a hydrogeological and hydrochemical atlas
  • Increases our understanding of important basin processes valuable to evaluating and exploring aquifer potential for operations such as water disposal, critical mineral extraction, and CO₂ carbon storage

Partners

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Canadian Discovery Ltd. (CDL) is an independent, global energy information services company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. As world leaders in reservoir- to basin-scale evaluation, we specialize in assessing subsurface properties, pressure, fluid flow, fluid chemistry and geomechanics. CDL’s extensive subsurface knowledge and GIS capabilities support Clean Technologies including Carbon Sequestration and Storage (CCUS), Critical Minerals, Geothermal Energy and Water Disposal and Sourcing Solutions.

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Montreal-based Deep Sky is the world's first tech-agnostic carbon removal project developer aiming to remove gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere and permanently store it underground. As a project developer, Deep Sky brings together the most promising direct air and ocean carbon capture companies under one roof to bring the largest supply of high quality carbon credits to the market, commercializing and catalyzing carbon removal and storage solutions like never before. With $75M in funding, Deep Sky is backed by world class investors including Investissement Québec, Brightspark Ventures, Whitecap Venture Partners, OMERS Ventures, BDC Climate Fund, and more.

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Matthew Scorah
VP, Decarbonization

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Christa Williams
VP, Business Development

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Robert Pockar
CEO