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Section Name
C R E D I T ( T O P T O B O T T O M ) :
Carbon
Sequestration
Southwest Regional Partnership
PRICE, UTAH, USASize: Up to 900,000 metric tons CO
2
over 4 yearsStart Date: 2008
2
CO
2
will be injected into deep undergroundsaltwater formations that are primary targetsfor commercial-scale CO
2
disposal from futurecoal-fired power plants planned for the area.
Schwarze Pumpe
SOUTHEAST OF BERLIN, GERMANYSize: 100,000 metric tons of CO
2
over 3 yearsStart Date: 2009
3
CO
2
from a lignite- and coal-burning pilotplant will be captured, liquefied, andinjected underground.
K12-B CO
2
Injection Project
NORTH SEA, NETHERLANDSSize: 200,000 metric tons/yrStart Date: 2004
4
The K12-B site has produced natural gassince 1987. CO
2
from the field is nowseparated from the natural gas andreinjected into the same reservoir fromwhich it came.
Sleipner West
NORTH SEA, NORWAYSize: 1 Mt/yrStart Date: 1996
5
Natural gas pumped from this North Seagas rig is stripped of CO
2
, which is thenreinjected into a deep geological layerbelow the Sleipner platform.
Snøhvit
BARENTS SEA, NORWAYSize: 700,000 metric tons/yrStart Date: 2008
6
This offshore gas field produces liquefiednatural gas. CO
2
is separated from thegas and reinjected 2600 meters belowthe sea floor.
12
CO
2
Weyburn-Midale Project
SASKATCHEWAN, CANADASize: 1 million metric tons per year (Mt/yr)Start Date: 2000
1
CO
2
from a synfuels plant in North Dakota inthe United States is piped 330 km to Weyburn,where it is pumped into an active oil well toenhance the amount of recovered oil.
To slow the atmospheric buildup of CO
2
, a report fromthe U.S. National Research Council recently called forbuilding a suite of 15 to 20 power plants with carbon cap- ture and storage (CCS) before 2020. “The urgency of gettingstarted on these demonstrations to clarify future deploymentoptions cannot be overstated,” the report said. Today, a fewsuch projects are under development. Most aim either to buryCO
2
separated from natural gas reservoirs or to pump it into oilreservoirs to push out more oil. This map shows some of themajor CCS projects around the world.
Adapted from the Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage, University of Edinburgh. Sources: U.S. DOE, (Individualprojects) MIT Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies, International Energy Agency, CooperativeResearch Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CRCCO2), (Graphics and layout: N. Kevitiyagala/
Science
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