Overview
Safe and effective underground carbon sequestration is essential to the long‑term success of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. Understanding how carbon dioxide (CO₂) behaves in the subsurface, and how storage sites are selected, designed, and managed, is critical to ensuring containment, regulatory compliance, and long‑term performance.
In Carbon Sequestration / Underground Storage, you’ll examine the fundamental characteristics and properties of CO₂ and their implications for underground storage. The course covers geological storage concepts, regulatory requirements, and the tools and techniques used to assess storage capacity, injectivity, and containment. You’ll also explore the components of a long‑term CO₂ storage strategy, including zone selection, drilling and wellbore design considerations, injection planning, and well testing.
The course is delivered online in a self‑paced format, with access to instructor guidance throughout. You’ll work through structured content, applied assignments, and quizzes that focus on evaluating subsurface conditions, interpreting storage risks, and applying technical criteria to underground sequestration scenarios.
By the end of this course, you’ll be prepared to assess underground carbon storage options and explain the technical and regulatory factors that support safe and secure sequestration. You’ll be able to contribute informed input to CCS projects related to site evaluation, storage planning, and long‑term subsurface management.
This course is ideal if you:
- want to understand how geological formations are evaluated for underground CO₂ storage
- work in or alongside geoscience, engineering, or technical roles supporting CCS projects
- are interested in storage capacity, injectivity, containment, and long‑term performance considerations
- need applied context for underground carbon sequestration within CCS systems.
Completion of ENVS 011 Introduction to Carbon Capture and Storage is required before taking this course. No additional education or work experience is required; learners should be comfortable engaging with technical concepts related to subsurface geology and underground storage systems.
Upon successful completion of this course, you’ll be able to:
- detail the fundamental characteristics and properties of CO2 and implications for safe and secure underground sequestration
- describe current and emerging regulations that impact CO2 underground sequestration
- demonstrate an understanding of tools and techniques utilized to assess capacity, injectivity and containment of CO2 underground and how to use them
- demonstrate an understanding of the components of a long-term CO2 storage strategy that includes zone selection and design, drilling plan and wellbore design and injection and well testing.
To request a course outline, contact ConEdAdvising@sait.ca.
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After you've completed this course
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to self-print a proof of completion document from your Continuing Education student account.
Micro-credential
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Costs
Textbook and reading list
Included in the purchase of this course, you'll receive access to online course content in Brightspace (D2L).
Technology
To be successful in this course, you’ll need:
- Access to your own computer or laptop with standard hardware/software requirements
- Internet access.
Financial support
Financial opportunities are available to help pay for your course fees. Learn more about how to reduce your education or training costs with available awards, bursaries, loans and grants, including the Canada Alberta Productivity Grant.
Applicable certificates
This course applies to the following certificate programs:
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Certificate of Completion
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