Lance Moore
GHG Monitor
7/17/2015
The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four projects from the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) Carbon Storage Program for funding, with the goal of assessing the geologic storage prospects of offshore subsurface depleted oil and natural gas reservoirs and saline formations on the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. The Carbon Storage Program seeks to develop and advance the effectiveness of onshore and offshore carbon storage technologies, reduce the challenges associated with implementation, and deploy the technologies commercially around 2025-2035.
According to a recent statement from the DOE, “The technologies being developed and the small- and large-scale injection projects conducted through this program will benefit the existing and future fleet of fossil fuel power-generating facilities and other industrial CO2 sources, including petroleum refineries and chemical manufacturing.” The manufacturing of these technologies is intended to enable safe, cost-effective, permanent geologic storage of CO2.
The four projects are: the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Offshore Carbon Storage Resource Assessment Project; Assessment of CO2 Storage Resources in Depleted Oil and Gas Fields in the Ship Shoal Area, Gulf of Mexico; Southeast Offshore Storage Resource Assessment; and the Offshore CO2 Storage Resource Assessment of the Northern Gulf of Mexico (Upper Texas-Western Louisiana Coastal Areas).
