In the Lower Mainland of British Columbia (LMBC), conditions for underground storage of CO₂ are favorable in some Tertiary strata below ~1000–1264 m depth, especially if in-situ or ex-situ CO₂ dissolution is employed. Maziyar Nazemi will discuss the characteristics of deep saline aquifers in siliciclastic sedimentary strata necessary for CO2 storage in tectonically active regions focusing on the LMBC, Canada. This talk will review the subsurface and reservoir characteristics necessary for successful CO₂ storage and summarize available information from the LMBC.

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Maziyar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU). He received his M.Sc. in Petroleum Geology in 2019 from the University of Tehran, Iran, and his B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering in 2013. Maziyar graduated as the department’s top-ranked student in his M.Sc. Following his M.Sc. studies, he gained two years of work experience in a consulting company as a reservoir geologist, studying reservoir characterization, reservoir modelling, well logs, and petrophysical data of various onshore and offshore reservoirs. Maziyar’s current research project is about the 3-D reconstruction of the Georgia Basin and potential for CO₂ storage in Lower Mainland B.C. Maziyar’s research interests encompass carbon capture and underground storage, reservoir characterization, reservoir modelling, sedimentology, petrophysics, and basin analysis. Furthermore, he was awarded the SFU Graduate Dean’s Entrance Scholarship in 2021, the Canadian Energy Geoscience Association (CEGA) Regional Graduate Student Scholarship and the Geoscience BC Scholarship in 2022 and 2023.