[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"learn-\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fccs-tenure-post-deadline-monitoring":3,"learn-related-how-to\u002Fccs-tenure-post-deadline-monitoring":190},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":170,"createdAt":171,"cta":171,"description":172,"extension":173,"icon":171,"industry":174,"keywords":175,"meta":180,"navigation":182,"path":183,"province":184,"relatedPages":185,"section":171,"seo":187,"stem":188,"systems":171,"updatedAt":171,"__hash__":189},"learn\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fccs-tenure-post-deadline-monitoring.md","AER CCS Tenure Review Timeline: Monitoring Quarter Sections After a Pore Space Application",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":160},"minimark",[9,13,17,20,25,28,51,54,58,61,64,68,71,86,89,96,99,103,112,116,119,132,136,142,148,154],[10,11,5],"h1",{"id":12},"aer-ccs-tenure-review-timeline-monitoring-quarter-sections-after-a-pore-space-application",[14,15,16],"p",{},"Your pore space tenure application is with the AER. The June 30 deadline passed, the submission package is in the queue, and now you wait. The AER's evaluation takes 60 to 90 days before a disposition decision is issued. During that window, your surface project planning cannot stop: well pad engineering, pipeline routing, surface lease negotiations, and environmental assessments all continue in parallel with the subsurface review.",[14,18,19],{},"The problem is that the quarter sections overlapping your proposed pore space tenure area are now in regulatory limbo. You cannot confirm subsurface rights until the AER publishes a disposition, but you need to track what else is happening on and around those parcels while you wait.",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"what-happens-during-the-aers-60-to-90-day-review","What Happens During the AER's 60 to 90 Day Review",[14,26,27],{},"After receiving a CCS tenure evaluation application, the AER assesses geological viability, checks for overlapping subsurface rights, and evaluates the applicant's technical capacity. The review covers:",[29,30,31,39,45],"ol",{},[32,33,34,38],"li",{},[35,36,37],"strong",{},"Formation suitability",": caprock integrity, formation pressure, and modeled plume migration against the DLS extent described in the application.",[32,40,41,44],{},[35,42,43],{},"Rights conflicts",": existing PNG dispositions, mineral rights, or competing pore space applications overlapping the proposed sections.",[32,46,47,50],{},[35,48,49],{},"Operator qualification",": technical and financial capacity to manage the storage project through its lifecycle.",[14,52,53],{},"The AER does not publish interim status updates. The next communication is the disposition decision itself.",[21,55,57],{"id":56},"how-disposition-decisions-are-published","How Disposition Decisions Are Published",[14,59,60],{},"When the AER completes its evaluation, it issues a pore space tenure disposition: either granted (with or without conditions) or refused. Granted dispositions define the approved storage area by its DLS extent, the geological formation, and the tenure term. The disposition is published in the Government of Alberta's tenure registry and appears in Township Canada's CCS Tenure Layer as the data refreshes.",[14,62,63],{},"A granted disposition does not mean you can start injecting. It confirms subsurface rights for the defined formation and DLS extent. Injection well licences, facility approvals, and environmental permits are separate regulatory steps that follow.",[21,65,67],{"id":66},"monitoring-quarter-section-adjacency-during-the-review-period","Monitoring Quarter-Section Adjacency During the Review Period",[14,69,70],{},"While your application is under review, other operators may be filing surface lease applications, well licences, or their own CCS proposals on adjacent or overlapping quarter sections. Tracking this activity matters for two reasons:",[72,73,74,80],"ul",{},[32,75,76,79],{},[35,77,78],{},"Surface coordination",": If a new pipeline or well licence appears on a quarter section within your proposed tenure boundary, you need to account for it in surface engineering before your project proceeds.",[32,81,82,85],{},[35,83,84],{},"Subsurface conflicts",": A competing CCS application targeting the same formation in adjacent sections could affect your modeled plume extent or trigger an AER conflict review.",[14,87,88],{},"Toggle the CCS Tenure Layer, CCS Project Boundaries, and CCS Injection Wells from the Energy category in the map layers panel. These layers are free at all tiers. Licensed pore space tenure zones appear on the DLS survey grid with satellite imagery underneath. You can see which sections already carry a granted tenure, which are adjacent to your proposed area, and where new injection wells have been licensed.",[14,90,91],{},[92,93],"img",{"alt":94,"src":95},"CCS Tenure Layer on the DLS grid near Township 55, Range 20, W4M, showing Enbridge Wabamun Hub pore space tenure zones and adjacent sections without existing tenure","\u002Fimages\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fccs-tenure-post-deadline-monitoring\u002Fccs-tenure-layer.png",[14,97,98],{},"For a project in the Fort Saskatchewan corridor with a proposed tenure block spanning 14 quarter sections across Sections 22, 27, 28, and 33 of Township 55, Range 20, W4M, the CCS Tenure Layer shows at a glance whether any neighbouring sections have received a pore space disposition since your application was filed.",[21,100,102],{"id":101},"geojson-export-for-ongoing-aer-filings","GeoJSON Export for Ongoing AER Filings",[14,104,105,106,111],{},"Surface project planning continues during the review period. Pipeline routing, surface lease applications, and environmental baseline studies all require verified DLS descriptions and GPS coordinates. The ",[107,108,110],"a",{"href":109},"\u002Fapp\u002Fbatch","batch converter"," on a Business plan handles the full location list in a single upload and exports as GeoJSON for QGIS or ArcGIS, or as KML for field verification. A description error caught during planning avoids a rejection notice after the disposition is granted.",[21,113,115],{"id":114},"after-the-disposition-decision","After the Disposition Decision",[14,117,118],{},"Once the AER publishes a granted disposition, the approved tenure boundary appears in the CCS Tenure Layer. The focus shifts from monitoring to execution: filing injection well licence applications at specific LSDs within the approved area, submitting facility licence applications, and beginning the surface rights process for each quarter section in the approved tenure block.",[14,120,121,122,126,127,131],{},"The ",[107,123,125],{"href":124},"\u002Flearn\u002Findustries\u002Flegal-land-description-for-carbon-sequestration","carbon sequestration industry guide"," covers how legal land descriptions flow through each stage of a CCS project. For the pre-submission workflow, see ",[107,128,130],{"href":129},"\u002Fblog\u002Faer-ccs-pore-space-tenure-quarter-sections","AER CCS Pore Space Tenure: How to Identify Quarter Sections in Licensed Tenure Zones",".",[21,133,135],{"id":134},"faq","FAQ",[14,137,138,141],{},[35,139,140],{},"How long does the AER CCS tenure review take?","\nThe AER's evaluation typically takes 60 to 90 days from the submission deadline. The timeline depends on the complexity of the application and whether rights conflicts exist with other operators.",[14,143,144,147],{},[35,145,146],{},"Does the AER provide status updates during the review?","\nNo. The AER does not publish interim updates on pending CCS tenure applications. The next communication after submission is the disposition decision.",[14,149,150,153],{},[35,151,152],{},"Is the CCS Tenure Layer free?","\nYes. The CCS pore space rights, project boundaries, and injection wells layers are free at all paid tiers. No Energy Bundle is required. Toggle them from the Energy category in the map layers panel.",[14,155,156,159],{},[35,157,158],{},"What does a granted disposition allow?","\nA granted pore space tenure disposition confirms subsurface storage rights for the defined formation and DLS extent. It does not authorize injection. Injection well licences, facility approvals, and environmental permits are separate regulatory steps.",{"title":161,"searchDepth":162,"depth":162,"links":163},"",2,[164,165,166,167,168,169],{"id":23,"depth":162,"text":24},{"id":56,"depth":162,"text":57},{"id":66,"depth":162,"text":67},{"id":101,"depth":162,"text":102},{"id":114,"depth":162,"text":115},{"id":134,"depth":162,"text":135},"how-to",null,"What happens after submitting a CCS pore space tenure application to the AER. Review timelines, disposition decisions, and how to monitor quarter-section adjacency during the 60 to 90 day evaluation.","md","carbon-sequestration",[176,177,178,179],"aer ccs tenure review timeline","carbon sequestration tenure disposition alberta","ccs pore space review process","aer disposition decision ccs",{"system":181},"lsd",true,"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fccs-tenure-post-deadline-monitoring","alberta",[124,129,186],"\u002Flearn\u002Fdata-sources\u002Fccs-tenure",{"title":5,"description":172},"learn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fccs-tenure-post-deadline-monitoring","2MoJ4qJ2uDZ32ez5BbKl-iBVfT0VsWgipQJwrILZjgs",[191,310],{"id":192,"title":193,"body":194,"category":171,"createdAt":171,"cta":295,"description":297,"extension":173,"icon":298,"industry":171,"keywords":299,"meta":303,"navigation":182,"path":186,"province":171,"relatedPages":304,"section":306,"seo":307,"stem":308,"systems":171,"updatedAt":171,"__hash__":309},"learn\u002Flearn\u002Fdata-sources\u002Fccs-tenure.md","CCS Tenure: Carbon-Capture Pore Space and Injection Wells",{"type":7,"value":195,"toc":288},[196,200,211,215,218,222,229,235,239,250,264,268],[21,197,199],{"id":198},"what-it-is","What it is",[14,201,202,203,206,207,210],{},"As Alberta builds out carbon capture, utilization, and storage, the province grants ",[35,204,205],{},"pore-space tenure"," - the right to inject and store CO2 in deep formations - and tracks the ",[35,208,209],{},"injection wells"," that serve those projects. Township Canada carries the CCS tenure polygons, project boundaries, and the injection-well registry, published by the Government of Alberta. The CCS layers are available to all users at no additional cost.",[21,212,214],{"id":213},"what-it-carries","What it carries",[14,216,217],{},"CCS records carry the feature type (pore-space agreement, project boundary, or injection well), name, operator, status, area, and effective and expiry dates. Injection wells carry their name, licence number, operator, status, and well type. We compute the share of each Legal Subdivision a CCS feature covers.",[21,219,221],{"id":220},"coverage-and-refresh","Coverage and refresh",[14,223,224,225,228],{},"Coverage is ",[35,226,227],{},"Alberta",", published by the Government of Alberta and refreshed as the province releases updates. CCS tenure is an emerging dataset: it grows as new sequestration hubs are granted, so coverage expands over time rather than being a fixed register.",[230,231,232],"blockquote",{},[14,233,234],{},"Source: Government of Alberta · Open Government Licence - Alberta",[21,236,238],{"id":237},"how-township-canada-shows-it","How Township Canada shows it",[14,240,241,242,245,246,249],{},"CCS pore-space rights, project boundaries, and injection wells each have their own ",[35,243,244],{},"free map layers"," - toggle them from the Energy category in the layers panel. They are most useful to teams scoping sequestration submissions, who need to see existing pore-space rights against the DLS grid. CCS features also appear in the alternative-energy section of the ",[35,247,248],{},"Energy tab"," on the parcel report for Energy Bundle subscribers.",[251,252,253],"note",{},[14,254,255,258,259,263],{},[35,256,257],{},"Screenshot to add"," (",[260,261,262],"code",{},"\u002Fimages\u002Flearn\u002Fdata-sources\u002Fccs-tenure\u002Fccs-report-section.png","): the parcel report Energy tab showing an intersecting CCS pore-space feature with operator, status, and coverage of the LSD.",[21,265,267],{"id":266},"related","Related",[72,269,270,276,282],{},[32,271,272],{},[107,273,275],{"href":274},"\u002Flearn\u002Fdata-sources\u002Fgeothermal-tenure","Geothermal Tenure",[32,277,278],{},[107,279,281],{"href":280},"\u002Flearn\u002Fdata-sources\u002Fcrown-png-tenure","Crown PNG Tenure",[32,283,284],{},[107,285,287],{"href":286},"\u002Findustries\u002Foil-and-gas","Township Canada for Oil and Gas",{"title":161,"searchDepth":162,"depth":162,"links":289},[290,291,292,293,294],{"id":198,"depth":162,"text":199},{"id":213,"depth":162,"text":214},{"id":220,"depth":162,"text":221},{"id":237,"depth":162,"text":238},{"id":266,"depth":162,"text":267},{"label":296,"href":286},"See it on the oil and gas page","Alberta carbon-capture-and-storage tenure - pore-space agreements, project boundaries, and injection wells - surfaced on the map and in the parcel report, free for all users.","i-lucide-wind",[300,301,302,209],"carbon capture","CCS","pore space",{},[274,280,305],"\u002Flearn\u002Fdata-sources\u002Faer-st37-wells","data-sources",{"title":193,"description":297},"learn\u002Fdata-sources\u002Fccs-tenure","aMaS2xllYyjKhMAkBLASqYAeOFwMIvHDy_rlayrx780",{"id":311,"title":312,"body":313,"category":171,"createdAt":171,"cta":530,"description":533,"extension":173,"icon":171,"industry":174,"keywords":534,"meta":540,"navigation":182,"path":124,"province":184,"relatedPages":541,"section":543,"seo":544,"stem":545,"systems":546,"updatedAt":171,"__hash__":549},"learn\u002Flearn\u002Findustries\u002Flegal-land-description-for-carbon-sequestration.md","Legal Land Descriptions for Carbon Sequestration - Township Canada",{"type":7,"value":314,"toc":518},[315,319,322,325,329,340,343,351,355,360,363,371,375,382,388,392,395,399,402,422,429,437,441,452,461,467,478,482,492,499,507,512],[10,316,318],{"id":317},"legal-land-descriptions-for-carbon-sequestration","Legal Land Descriptions for Carbon Sequestration",[14,320,321],{},"Carbon capture and storage projects in Alberta require exact legal land descriptions at every stage - from pore space tenure applications filed with the Alberta Energy Regulator to injection well licenses, surface leases for compressor and dehydration facilities, and monitoring well placements. A transposed range number or wrong meridian puts the wrong formation on the wrong property, and AER reviewers will catch it.",[14,323,324],{},"AER is currently accepting Carbon Capture and Storage tenure evaluation applications through June 30, 2026, with Canada's 2025 federal budget doubling CCUS investment tax credits. The project pipeline is accelerating. Energy consultants filing applications need accurate legal land descriptions across multiple tenure types from day one.",[21,326,328],{"id":327},"why-ccs-projects-depend-on-dls-legal-descriptions-why-lld-matters","Why CCS Projects Depend on DLS Legal Descriptions {#why-lld-matters}",[14,330,331,332,335,336,339],{},"Carbon sequestration projects have two distinct land components: the ",[35,333,334],{},"surface"," (where wells, pipelines, and facilities sit) and the ",[35,337,338],{},"subsurface"," (the pore space in the geological formation where CO₂ is injected and stored). Both require precise DLS legal descriptions.",[14,341,342],{},"The surface component works like any oil and gas project. Injection wells, monitoring wells, compression equipment, and pipelines each require well licenses and surface leases filed with the AER and the surface rights holder. Each licensed location is identified by its LSD for a wellhead, or by a sequence of quarter sections for linear infrastructure.",[14,344,345,346,350],{},"The subsurface component is unique to CCS. Alberta's ",[347,348,349],"em",{},"Carbon Sequestration Tenure Regulations"," require a pore space tenure application identifying the subsurface geological formation where CO₂ will be stored. The application defines the storage reservoir by its DLS extent - typically a set of sections or townships covering the modeled plume migration area for the injection zone. A single injection well may store CO₂ across dozens of sections of subsurface pore space, so the pore space tenure area is usually far larger than the surface footprint.",[21,352,354],{"id":353},"survey-systems-used-in-carbon-sequestration-projects-systems","Survey Systems Used in Carbon Sequestration Projects {#systems}",[356,357,359],"h3",{"id":358},"dls-sections-pore-space-tenure-areas","DLS Sections - Pore Space Tenure Areas",[14,361,362],{},"Pore space tenure applications define the storage formation by its DLS grid extent. For a project targeting a deep saline aquifer in central Alberta, the application might describe a storage area spanning multiple sections across two or three townships. AER requires section-level legal descriptions that match the geological formation boundaries - not arbitrary property lines - so the tenure application is tied directly to the DLS grid.",[14,364,365,366,370],{},"See ",[107,367,369],{"href":368},"\u002Flearn\u002Fsystems\u002Fdls","Understanding the DLS System"," for how DLS sections and townships are numbered.",[356,372,374],{"id":373},"lsd-injection-and-monitoring-well-sites","LSD - Injection and Monitoring Well Sites",[14,376,377,378,381],{},"Each injection well and monitoring well is licensed at the LSD level - the specific 40-acre parcel where the wellhead sits. A deep saline aquifer injection project in the Fort Saskatchewan–Heartland area might locate its primary injection well at ",[35,379,380],{},"SE-20-55-20-W4",", with a pressure monitoring well at a neighboring LSD in the same section. Each requires a separate AER well license with the precise LSD description confirmed against survey corner data.",[14,383,365,384,131],{},[107,385,387],{"href":386},"\u002Flearn\u002Fsystems\u002Flsd","Legal Subdivisions Explained",[356,389,391],{"id":390},"quarter-sections-surface-infrastructure","Quarter Sections - Surface Infrastructure",[14,393,394],{},"Pipeline corridors, access roads, and power lines for CCS facilities cross multiple quarter sections, each requiring a right-of-way agreement with the surface rights holder. A pipeline routing from an industrial capture source to a remote injection site records each crossed quarter section in sequence - the same approach used in conventional O&G gathering systems and subject to the same AER surface rights filing requirements.",[21,396,398],{"id":397},"real-world-scenario-ccus-application-package-scenario","Real-World Scenario: CCUS Application Package {#scenario}",[14,400,401],{},"An energy consultant is preparing a CCS tenure evaluation application for a proposed CO₂ storage project targeting a carbonate formation in west-central Alberta. The application package requires legal descriptions across three tenure types:",[29,403,404,410,416],{},[32,405,406,409],{},[35,407,408],{},"Pore Space Tenure",": Section-level DLS descriptions defining the subsurface storage area, covering the modeled CO₂ plume extent across 14 sections",[32,411,412,415],{},[35,413,414],{},"Well Licenses (Injection and Monitoring)",": LSD-level descriptions for each proposed wellhead location",[32,417,418,421],{},[35,419,420],{},"Surface Leases and Rights-of-Way",": Quarter section identifications for the injection facility and pipeline corridor",[14,423,424,425,428],{},"The consultant has 40 locations in a spreadsheet - sections, LSDs, and quarter sections mixed together. Running the full list through the ",[107,426,427],{"href":109},"Business tier batch converter"," generates GPS coordinates for all 40 descriptions in a single upload, producing KML files for the submission maps and a CSV for the regulatory filing database. Errors in the raw list - a wrong meridian on two LSDs, a section number transposition - show up immediately when the GPS points don't land where expected on the satellite view.",[14,430,431,432,436],{},"For individual location checks during the AER review process, each description can be confirmed against the ",[107,433,435],{"href":434},"\u002F","Township Canada converter"," before filing an amendment.",[21,438,440],{"id":439},"how-township-canada-handles-ccs-workflows-township-canada","How Township Canada Handles CCS Workflows {#township-canada}",[14,442,443,446,447,451],{},[35,444,445],{},"AER application mapping",": Convert section and quarter section descriptions to GPS for regulatory submission maps. Export as KML for the project boundary exhibit or as GeoJSON for internal GIS review. The ",[107,448,450],{"href":449},"\u002Fpricing","Business plan"," supports all export formats.",[14,453,454,457,458,460],{},[35,455,456],{},"Batch processing",": CCS projects involve dozens of legal descriptions across surface and subsurface tenure. The ",[107,459,110],{"href":109}," handles mixed lists of LSDs, quarter sections, and DLS sections in a single CSV upload - no need to process surface and pore space tenure separately.",[14,462,463,466],{},[35,464,465],{},"Injection well site verification",": Confirm each proposed injection LSD maps to the correct surface location before filing the well license. A description error caught at this stage avoids an AER amendment filing and potential project delays.",[14,468,469,472,473,477],{},[35,470,471],{},"Overlap with O&G workflows",": Most CCS projects are developed by the same teams managing existing producing well sites. The legal description workflow for CCS well licenses is identical to conventional O&G licensing. See ",[107,474,476],{"href":475},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Flegal-land-description-for-oil-and-gas","Legal Land Descriptions for Oil and Gas"," for the standard AER well licensing workflow.",[21,479,481],{"id":480},"try-it-with-a-ccs-project-location","Try It with a CCS Project Location",[14,483,484,485,487,488,491],{},"Enter ",[35,486,380],{}," into the ",[107,489,435],{"href":490},"\u002Falberta-legal-land-converter"," to see a legal land description in the Fort Saskatchewan–Heartland area of Alberta - the region hosting several operating and proposed CCUS projects. The map shows the 40-acre parcel boundary with GPS coordinates for the site corners.",[14,493,494,495,131],{},"For broader carbon project work - including offset registration for emission reduction projects under TIER and the federal Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System - see ",[107,496,498],{"href":497},"\u002Flearn\u002Findustries\u002Fcarbon-credits","Legal Land Descriptions for Carbon Credits",[14,500,501,502,506],{},"With the AER's CCS tenure evaluation window closing June 30, 2026, see ",[107,503,505],{"href":504},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcarbon-sequestration-tenure-alberta-ccs-lease-blocks","Mapping CCS Lease Blocks Before the AER June 30 Deadline"," for a practical walkthrough of how consultants prepare DLS location packages for tenure applications.",[14,508,509,510,131],{},"For a step-by-step guide to identifying which quarter sections fall within a licensed pore space tenure zone boundary - including the GeoJSON export workflow for AER shapefile submissions - see ",[107,511,130],{"href":129},[14,513,514,515,517],{},"For high-volume location processing on CCS application packages, the ",[107,516,450],{"href":449}," includes unlimited batch conversion, all export formats, and team access for multi-consultant project teams.",{"title":161,"searchDepth":162,"depth":162,"links":519},[520,521,527,528,529],{"id":327,"depth":162,"text":328},{"id":353,"depth":162,"text":354,"children":522},[523,525,526],{"id":358,"depth":524,"text":359},3,{"id":373,"depth":524,"text":374},{"id":390,"depth":524,"text":391},{"id":397,"depth":162,"text":398},{"id":439,"depth":162,"text":440},{"id":480,"depth":162,"text":481},{"label":531,"href":532},"Look up a CCS project location","\u002F?example=SE-20-55-20-W4","How CCS project developers and energy consultants use DLS legal land descriptions for AER pore space tenure applications and CCUS project registration in Alberta.",[535,536,537,538,539],"carbon sequestration Alberta legal description","CCS pore space tenure DLS","CCUS legal land description Alberta","AER carbon capture tenure application","carbon sequestration well site LSD",{},[497,542,368,475],"\u002Flearn\u002Findustries\u002Foil-and-gas","industries",{"title":312,"description":533},"learn\u002Findustries\u002Flegal-land-description-for-carbon-sequestration",[547,548],"DLS","LSD","pbgmDajkCmk8y6pbh-25njeaQV9IXTHOmwZPlCTBlfw"]