29-36 Investigating the Carbon Storage Potential of the Broom Creek and Amsden Formations: Core Analysis and Generating a Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Model

Session: Undergraduate Research, Part II (Posters)

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Techniques like carbon storage are being tested and implemented across the globe to determine their efficacy, profitability, and the carbon offset potential. One of these is the carbon storage project initiated by the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC): Project CarbonSAFE. The project is focused on the Broom Creek Formation in central North Dakota. The Department of Energy (DOE), local and state agencies sponsored the project to better understand the mechanics and reservoir characterization of carbon capture and storage (CCS) on a formation such as the Broom Creek. The Formation has high porosity and permeability within its aeolian and nearshore facies in the Formation’s middle and upper regions, currently functioning as a saline aquifer. Acting as capstones on the Formation, the red siltstone Opeche and anhydritic Amsden lie above and below respectively, which will help seal the sequestered CO2. The partnered pipeline company Summit Carbon Solutions is one step closer to completion. However, there is still a lack of data on the formation, so coring has been overseen by the EERC. Analysis of five cores and a section of 3D Seismic modeling of the potential storage area will provide information to generate a stratigraphic and sedimentological model to better assess the carbon storage potential of Broom Creek. 

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 58, No. 1, 2026

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