Meadowbrook Hub Project

The Meadowbrook Carbon Storage Project is a CO₂ sequestration hub led by Bison Low Carbon Ventures and located west of Legal in Sturgeon County, Alberta. The project targets deep saline storage within the Devonian Leduc and Cooking Lake formations of the Meadowbrook Woodbend Reef complex, a large regional carbonate aquifer with favorable injectivity and strong sealing formations. Phase 1 centers on a single injection site at 16-29-057-25 W4M, where the existing well 103/16-29-057-25W4/0 is planned to be completed as the initial CO₂ injection and monitoring well, enabling early-scale operations and reservoir characterization. Initial operations are designed around truck-delivered CO₂ injected into the Cooking Lake interval at depths of approximately 1,500–1,600 m to minimize thermal impacts to the caprock and validate storage performance. Phase 1 targets injection rates of roughly 0.5 Mtpa over a projected 15-year operating period, representing approximately 7.5 Mt of stored CO₂. Reservoir properties include average porosity near 10–11% and permeability ranging from tens of millidarcies to greater than 1 Darcy, while containment is provided primarily by the Ireton shale caprock. Legacy well risk within the modeled plume footprint is considered low based on abandonment records and regulatory review. The long-term development plan is to expand the project into a pipeline-connected storage hub with capacity of approximately 3 Mtpa serving multiple industrial emitters in the Edmonton and Alberta Industrial Heartland region.