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Volume 36 Number 7
  • ISSN: 0263-5046
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2397

Abstract

Abstract

A group of scientists from six countries (France, Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, UK and the US) met over three days in September 2017 in Houston, Texas, to brainstorm and debate the most promising research directions needed to make breakthroughs in the areas of injectivity and capacity that currently pose challenges to carrying out large-scale (gigatonnes CO per year) geologic carbon sequestration. Several CO storage projects around the world have demonstrated the feasibility of injecting and storing CO at the mega-tonne per year scale. These include the long-running Sleipner project (Norway) which started in 1996 and which has stored ∼17 Mt of CO to date, and the Illinois Basin Decatur Project (USA) which has stored approximately 1 Mt of CO. New projects have started over the last few years, including the QUEST project in Canada, the Gorgon project in Australia, and the Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) project at Decatur, Illinois, which will inject 1 Mt CO/yr. These projects along with a wealth of injection experience from the oil and gas industry over decades, supported by an extensive literature of theory and modelling analyses, provide confidence in the subsurface storage concept intrinsic to CCUS.

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