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Environmental and Engineering Geoscience; May 2009; v. 15; no. 2; p. 115-116; DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.15.2.115
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Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide

Richard E. Jackson1

1 INTERA Engineering Ltd., 11 Venus Crescent, Heidelberg, Ontario, N0B 1Y0 Canada

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In the 8 years since these papers were first presented at the 2001 meeting of the European Union of Geoscientists, a multitude of articles on deep CO2 storage in aquifers or petroleum reservoirs has appeared in journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Energy Conversion & Management, and the publications of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. In that time and with U.S. Department of Energy support, the principal coal-mining and coal-burning states have formed seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships plus the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium. This latter Consortium recently began drilling an approximately 8,000-foot-deep injection well at a site near Decatur, Illinois, to investigate geological sequestration of carbon dioxide. In Europe, the off-shore Sleipner oilfield in Norway has been in use as a deep CO2 repository since 1996. Much of what is known about the issues of deep geological storage of carbon dioxide comes from the use of CO2 in enhanced oil recovery in West Texas and from re-injection of acid or sour gases in the Alberta oil and gas fields. This collection of 16 papers is an excellent point of departure for those who wish to understand the basic challenges presented by deep geological storage of CO2 and the achievements in this endeavor through 2001.

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