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Demonstrating the Potential for Geological Storage of CO2: The Sleipner and GESTCO Projects
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Two projects are now under way in the European Union to assess the potential CO2 storage capacity of the main sedimentary basins within Europe, known as GESTCO, which will examine in detail the geological storage potential and coincidence of CO2 emission sources to storage sites.Abstract:
The member countries of the European Union plan to reduce their CO2 emissions in accordance with the international protocol agreed in Kyoto in 1997. The accepted options for doing this include fuel switching, improving energy efficiency, and the introduction of renewable energy sources. Geological storage of CO2 from fossil fuel use is also an option to reduce CO2 emissions, which does not require major changes in the energy infrastructure. Two projects are now under way in the European Union to study the potential for geological CO2 storage. The first project, known as GESTCO, will assess the potential CO2 storage capacity of the main sedimentary basins within Europe. GESTCO will examine in detail the geological storage potential and coincidence of CO2 emission sources to storage sites. In the North Sea the world’s first commercial geological storage project has now been in operation for 3 years. The natural gas from the Sleipner West field contains about 9% CO2, which must be reduced to 2.5% before sale. The CO2 is stripped by an amine scrubbing plant and then injected into a deep saline reservoir about 800 m below the seabed. To date, about 3 million tonnes of CO2 have been injected. To monitor the storage of CO2 in the reservoir, a project entitled Saline Aquifer CO2 Storage commenced in April 1998.read more
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Demonstrating storage of CO2 in geological reservoirs: The Sleipner and SACS projects
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TL;DR: The Sleipner project is the first commercial application of CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers in the world as discussed by the authors, and 3D seismic surveying has been used to successfully monitor the CO2 in the Utsira formation.
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Reservoir geology of the Utsira Sand in the southern Viking Graben area - a site for potential CO2 storage.
Rob Arts,Peter Zweigel,A. Lothe +2 more
TL;DR: Brevik et al. as mentioned in this paper presented the interpretation of the base survey acquired before injection and the most likely pathways for CO2 migration in the vicinity of the injection point have been indicated.
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Geological Storage of CO2
TL;DR: To meet the targets for greenhouse gas emission reduction set by the Kyoto Protocol, many countries are considering a range of near-term options for abatement of emissions, such as fuel switching, energy efficiency improvement and use of renewable sources of energy.
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Expectations and Results from Seismic Monitoring of CO2 Injection into a Marine Aquifer
TL;DR: Statoil as discussed by the authors began the disposal of CO2 gas into a shallow water saturated marine sand formation located in the Norwegian North Sea Sleipner area in 1996, which was later used for coal-to-diesel transfer.
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