Project AMIGO

Accelerating CCS Technologies (ACT) is an international initiative aimed at advancing carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to mitigate global warming. Since its inception in 2015, ACT has allocated €108 million to fund 39 international research, development, and innovation projects.

In May 2022, ACT launched its fourth call (ACT4), targeting industrial-oriented CCUS projects. Six projects were selected under the ACT4 Call, commencing in spring 2023 with durations of two to three years. These projects include AMIGO, CARBon-PRINT (3D PRINTING), MACE, MeDORA, PERBAS, and SPARSE, each contributing to the advancement of CCUS technologies.

GLJ is extremely proud to partner with PEYTO, the University of Alberta, and NETL on Project AMIGO.

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Design the first-of-a-kind project in the region to inject and store substantial quantities of CO₂ in a pressure-depleted carbonate formation, demonstrating robust and defensible workflows for characterization and site development planning.

Project Amigo will evaluate technical and regulatory aspects of large-scale CO₂ storage in a pressure-depleted gas carbonate reservoir operated by Peyto Exploration & Development Corp. that has decreased an order of magnitude in pressure after several decades of producing several trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas.

Five tasks will be performed during this two-year project to successfully achieve key milestones and deliverables:

(1) project management
(2) technical feasibility
(3) project risk analysis
(4) project development plan
(5) public outreach

NETL will assist the project with technical characterizations from experience working with near-development scale projects in the United States, such as the United States Department of Energy (US-DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) CarbonSAFE projects, and risk analyses. Those projects provided valuable insight and experience through the NETL-led National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP).

The University of Alberta brings the expertise garnered from over 20 years of experience in CCS starting from the IEAGHG Weyburn Storage and Monitoring Project through to its current involvement in Aquistore, the storage component of SaskPower’s Boundary Dam CO₂ Capture Project.

In addition to our well-rounded project team, another critical component included in the tasks will be to share knowledge and lessons learned with local communities, stakeholders, and regulators to provide the proper analysis and potential for utilizing depleted reservoirs as an alternative storage site for a CCS Hub.

Related Resources

Vicky Wang, GLJ’s Manager of Integrated studies presents ‘Project Amigo: Feasibility Study of CCS in Depleted Gas Reservoir’

Presented at the 2025 Energi Simulation Summit on September 24th, 2025