Weyburn

Weyburn

Located in southeast Saskatchewan, the Weyburn oilfield contains approximately 1.4 billion barrels of oil, one of the largest medium-sour crude oil reservoirs in Canada. It is currently producing about 15,000 barrels per day net. A prolific oilfield, it has produced for more than 50 years due to technology advances, most recently CO2 flood. Since the start of CO2 injection in 2000, more than 15 million tonnes of CO2 have been sequestered at Weyburn. It is recognized as the world's largest geological CO2 sequestration project.

International Energy Agency

The Weyburn project is the site of a world-scale research initiative operated under the auspices of the International Energy Agency, which studies the sequestration of CO2 in an oil reservoir. The goal for the final phase of this research initiative is to document best practices to guide future CO2 storage projects.