Weyburn-Midale CO₂ Project

World’s first CO₂ measuring, monitoring and verification initiative

Launched in 2000, this 8-year $80 million international project studies CO₂ injection and storage underground in depleted oil fields. The project’s Final Phase (2005-2011) is building on the successes of the First Phase (2000 – 2004) to deliver the framework necessary to encourage implementation of CO₂ geological storage on a worldwide basis.

The project is operated in conjunction with two billion-dollar commercial CO₂ floods in Saskatchewan, Canada, where huge volumes of the gas are captured from an industrial source and injected to revive oil production.

Cenovus' Weyburn field and Apache’s Midale field, located in southeast Saskatchewan, Canada, host this world leading project studying CO₂ geological storage.

Map showing the pipeline that carries CO₂ captured from the Dakota Gasification Company’s Synfuels Plant to Cenovus' Weyburn and Apache’s Midale fields.