Abstract
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is the lead federal agency for the development and deployment of carbon sequestration technologies. Its mission includes promoting scientific and technological innovations and transfer of knowledge for safe and permanent storage of CO2 in the subsurface. To accomplish its mission, DOE is characterizing and classifying potential geologic storage reservoirs in basins throughout the U.S. and Canada, and developing best practices for project developers, to help ensure the safety of future geologic storage projects. DOE’s Carbon Sequestration Program, Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (RCSP) Initiative, administered by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), is identifying, characterizing, and testing potential injection formations. The RCSP Initiative consists of collaborations among government, industry, universities, and international organizations. Through this collaborative effort, a series of integrated knowledge-based tools have been developed to help potential sequestration project developers. They are the Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United States and Canada, National Carbon Sequestration Database and Geographic System (NATCARB), and best practice manuals for CCS including Depositional Reservoir Classification for CO2; Public Outreach and Education for Carbon Storage Projects; Monitoring, Verification, and Accounting of CO2 Stored in Deep Geologic Formation; Site Screening, Site Selection, and Initial Characterization of CO2 Storage in Deep Geologic Formations. DOE’s future research will help with refinement of these tools and additional best practice manuals (BPM) which focus on other technical aspects of project development.
Highlights
Our modern economy and our associated quality of life—lighting, transportation, communications, heat and air conditioning—rely fundamentally on the consumption of energy, of which approximately85%, worldwide, comes from the combustion of fossil fuels
This is being accomplished through the implementation of 28 CO2 injection field projects in collaboration with the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (RCSP) Initiative and ten American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) projects focused on the characterization of geologic formations as sites for possible commercial carbon capture and storage (CCS) development
Through the various projects in the Program, lessons learned have been documented in a series of best practice manuals (BPMs) that serve as the basis for the design and implementation of commercial CCS
Summary
Our modern economy and our associated quality of life—lighting, transportation, communications, heat and air conditioning—rely fundamentally on the consumption of energy, of which approximately. One approach is to capture the CO2 from industrial facilities which are large emission sources. The CO2 would be compressed, transported, most likely by pipeline, and injected deep in the subsurface into rock formations with the capability of storing the CO2 for thousands of years. This emissions reduction approach is called carbon capture and storage (CCS). Energy manages a Carbon Sequestration Program through NETL which focuses on research and development of CCS technologies to reduce CO2 emissions. DOE’s Carbon Sequestration Program is focused on geologic storage of captured CO2 that would otherwise be emitted to the atmosphere. DOE’s vision is to fully understand the available CCS options, cost factors, environmental implications, and technological options
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