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DOE determined early in the program’s development that addressing CO2 mitigation from power and industrial sources regionally would be the most effective way to address differences in geology, climate, population density, infrastructure (human capital), and socioeconomic development throughout the United States.
DOE has created a network of seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSPs) to help develop the technology and infrastructure needed to implement large-scale CO2 storage in different regions and geologic formations. The RCSPs are public/private partnerships comprising more than 400 organizations over 43 states and four Canadian provinces. The RCSPs include representatives from state and local agencies, regional universities, national laboratories, non-government organizations, foreign government agencies, engineering and research firms, electric utilities, oil and gas companies, and other industrial partners. The diversity of partners is important to the success and deployment of CCUS. Each of the RCSPs are led by one organization that manages the partnership’s activities, including characterization efforts, planning and leading small- and large-scale injection tests, and integrating the results. In addition to efforts to implement small- and large-scale field projects, the RCSPs also work to develop human capital, encourage stakeholder networking, support regulatory policy development, develop carbon mitigation plans, and enhance public outreach and education regarding CCUS.
The RCSPs’ technology area research effort is conducting regional characterization and small-and large-scale field projects to demonstrate that different types of geologic storage reservoirs, distributed over different geographic regions, have the capability to permanently store CO2, and provide the basis for commercial-scale CO2 tests. Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships’ field projects involve integrated system testing and validation of geologic storage; simulation and risk assessment; and monitoring, verification, and accounting technologies in different depositional environments.
Through these small- and large-scale injection projects, the Carbon Storage Program is demonstrating adequate injectivity, available storage resource and capacity, and storage permanence across the range of major reservoir classes, as well as to develop injection strategies, risk assessment, and monitoring strategies that are best suited for the particular geologic structure, reservoir architecture, and range of properties characteristic of each of 11 major reservoir classes. Knowledge and experience gained from small- and large-scale field projects in different depositional environments will determine the systems best suited for geologic storage on a regional basis. Small- and large-scale field projects provide understanding of the impacts of different depositional systems on flow, injectivity, containment, and capacity and validate simulation models used to assess design and performance.
The RCSP Initiative is being implemented in the following three phases: Characterization Activities: Initial characterization of each region’s potential to store CO2 in different geologic formations. Small-Scale Field Projects: Validation of the most promising regional storage opportunities through a series of small-scale field projects. Large-Scale Field Projects: Implementation of large-scale field testing involving at least 1 million metric tons of CO2 per project to confirm that CO2 injection and storage can be achieved safely, permanently, and economically.
For more information on DOE’s RCSP Initiative, visit: http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/carbon_seq/partnerships/partnerships.html.
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