Capture and Storage of Carbon Dioxide in Iranian Geological Formations

Abstract

Continuous rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other green house gases concentrations is one of the main environmental concerns of present century. All of world countries including Islamic Republic of Iran have to control their carbon dioxide emissions in near future. Capture and storage of carbon dioxide may be considered as a recent technology to reduce greenhouse emissions resulted from human industrial activities. As the rate of carbon dioxide production is always greater than its rate of consumption, enormous amounts of unused carbon dioxide have to be stored in high capacity reservoirs. Natural geological formations have been always an appropriate choice for carbon dioxide storage. In this paper we have studied the different options for carbon dioxide storage in Iranian geological formations. All of the main Iranian geological basins have been studied and different geological formations have been compared with each other. Some recommendations for carbon dioxide storage strategy in short and long term periods have been presented as the results of the study.