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    CO2 from combustion of fossil fuel is now released to the atmosphere Rather than releasing the CO2, it can be injected underground below and separated from potable water. Geologic sequestration can be isolated or sequestered from the atmosphere for thousands of years. Funding requested: $2. Million over 2 years 2 / 3 federal 1 / 3 industry / state match future additions funding requested: $3 million federal funding DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory Test date: fall 2003 3,250 metric tons CO2 from BP's

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    CO2 from combustion of fossil fuel is now released to the atmosphere Rather than releasing the CO2, it can be injected underground below and separated from potable water. Geologic sequestration can be isolated or sequestered from the atmosphere for thousands of years. Funding requested: $2. Million over 2 years 2 / 3 federal 1 / 3 industry / state match future additions funding requested: $3 million federal funding DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory Test date: fall 2003 3,250 metric tons CO2 from BP's

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    Carbon Sequestration in The Greater Gulf Coast

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    Carbon Sequestration in the

    Greater Gulf Coast

    Susan Hovorka
    Bureau of Economic Geology
    Jackson School of Geosciences
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Why Geologic Sequestration?
    Recent increase in average Recent increase in CO2
    global temperature concentration
    What is Geologic Sequestration?
    Waste CO2 from combustion of
    fossil fuel is now released to the
    atmosphere

    Rather than releasing the CO2,


    it can be injected underground
    below and separated from potable
    water and isolated or sequestered
    from the atmosphere for thousands
    of years
    Permian
    Basin

    Gulf Coast
    Opportunities for Source-Sink Matching in
    the Gulf Coast
    Existing CO2
    Pipelines for
    enhanced oil
    recovery

    Vision of future system linking


    early sources (refineries) and
    early sinks (reservoirs with
    EOR potential) and later sources
    (power plants) and sinks (large
    volume sediments).
    Proposal to Develop a Greater
    Gulf Coast Carbon Center
    Partners
    Bureau of Economic Geology
    Southern States Energy Board
    New Mexico BMMR
    Louisiana Geological Survey
    Geological Survey Alabama
    Mississippi DEQ
    UT ESI
    UT Chemical Engineering
    UT Petroleum Engineering
    Kinder Morgan
    BP
    Air Liquide
    GGCCC Proposal Advisors and
    Participants
    • Oklahoma Geological • Shell – Motiva
    Survey/Sarkeys Energy Center • ConocoPhillips
    • Railroad Commission of Texas • ChevronTexaco
    • Nexant
    • Lower Colorado River
    • University of Houston
    Authority
    • Sandia Technologies
    • Texas General Land Office • Other Carbon Centers
    • Chemistry Council • Future additions
    • Environmental Defense Fund
    • State Public Utilities
    Funding requested:
    Commission $2.4 million over 2 years
    2/3 federal 1/3 industry/state
    match
    Evolution of GGCCC – other
    Texas Projects
    • Bureau research in geologic sequestration of
    CO2
    – Abandoned oil fields – economic assessment
    – Brine-bearing formations below and isolated
    from potable water – on line data base
    • See www.beg.utexas.edu/co2
    – Field pilot project in the Houston area
    Field Pilot Project in the Houston
    Area
    • Sequestration and experiment and demonstration
    • Inject and closely monitor CO2 injection and sequestration
    under ideal conditions
    • $3 million federal funding DOE National Energy
    Technology Laboratory
    • Test date: fall 2003
    • 3,250 metric tons CO2 from BP’s Texas City refinery
    sequestered in a non-productive sandstone of the Frio
    Formation, South Liberty field, Liberty County
    • Research: BEG, Texas American Resources, Sandia
    Technologies, Transpetco, Schlumberger, Geo-Seq (3
    national labs), NETL
    Regional Setting of Pilot Site
    Significance
    to US carbon program:
    Potential to
    upscale to impact Houston
    US releases

    nd Pilot site
    tre
    nd
    sa o Power plants
    ig h Fri
    H the
    in Industrial
    20 miles
    sources
    Energy past moves toward….
    … the energy future
    Fault planes
    Porosity
    Monitoring well
    Injection well

    Subsurface
    CO2 test

    A sand
    B sand
    C sand
    More Information:
    • www.beg.utexas.edu/co2
    • susan.hovorka@beg.utexas.edu
    • (512) 471- 4863

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