The IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO Monitoring and Storage Project is an international collaborative scientific study to assess the technical feasibility of CO storage in geological formations with a focus on oil reservoirs, together with the development of world leading best practices for project implementation. The project itself began in 2000 and runs until the end of 2011 when a best practices manual for the transitioning of CO-EOR operations into long-term storage operations will be released.
The research project accesses data from the actual CO-enhanced oil recovery operations in the Weyburn oil field (formerly operated by Cenovus Energy of Calgary before its Saskatchewan operations were sold to Whitecap Resources in 2017), and after the year 2005 from the adjacent Midale field (operated by Apache Canada). These EOR operations are independent of the research program.   Cenovus Energy's only contribution to the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO Monitoring and Storage Project was to allow access to the fields for measurement, monitoring and verification of the CO for the global scientists and researchers involved in the project.