Methodology for Development of Geologic Storage Estimates for Carbon Dioxide

Technical Report · Sat Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1813983· OSTI ID:1813983

Hovorka, Susan ^[1]; Deal, Dawn ^[2]

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1. Gulf Coast Carbon Center, Austin, TX (United States); Southern States Energy Board
2. National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)

This document is an update to the 2006 “Methodology for Development of Carbon Sequestration Capacity Estimates” published in the 2007 Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United States and Canada (Atlas I). This document describes the methodologies being used to produce the geologic resource estimates for carbon dioxide (CO₂) storage in the 2008 Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United States and Canada (Atlas II) – in development. The rationales presented are used to simplify assumptions for estimating the amount of CO₂ that can be stored in subsurface geologic environments of the United States and parts of Canada. The primary focus of this update is to add additional basins and formations to the CO₂ storage portfolio, document procedures completely, and provide definitions of CO₂ resource that reflect the uncertainty of geologic resource estimates for CO₂.

• Research Organization: Gulf Coast Carbon Center, Austin, TX (United States); National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
• DOE Contract Number: FC26-05NT42590
• OSTI ID: 1813983
• Report Number(s): DOE-SSEB--42590-107
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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