T151 Geologic Carbon Storage

Tuesday, 11 October 2022
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mile High Ballroom 4B

SOUTHWEST REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON CARBON SEQUESTRATION: 20 YEARS AND 2M TONNES

Paper number: T151-2
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 8:05 AM – 8:25 AM

Authors

Abstract

In 2003, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) formed a nationwide network of seven regional carbon sequestration partnerships (RCSPs) to determine the best approaches for capturing and storing carbon dioxide. The RCSPs conducted three phases:

Characterization Phase (2003–2005): to collect data on CO2 sources and sinks and develop the human capital for future carbon sequestration deployments.

Validation Phase (2005–2009): to implement small-scale (<1 million tons CO2) field testing of storage technologies.

Development Phase (2008–2018): to demonstrate large-scale (>1 million tons of CO2) Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects.

The Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration (SWP) is a coalition comprising a diverse group of experts in geology, engineering, economics, public policy, and outreach, led by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The SWP region encompasses Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, Kansas, Nevada, Texas, and Wyoming. The purpose of this presentation is to summarize all SWP Phase I efforts and all Phase II and Phase III demonstration projects. Detailed in the presentation are summaries of the SACROC (Texas) CO2 -EOR project, the Aneth (Utah) CO2 -EOR project, the San Juan Pump Canyon (New Mexico) CO2 -ECBM project, a region-wide terrestrial sequestration analysis, and the Farnworth (Texas) CO2 -EOR project. The sum net total CO2 stored among all of these SWP projects exceeds 2,000,000 metric tonnes. The SWP is succeeded by the Carbon Utilization and Storage Partnership, a newly-formed Regional Initiative also managed by the U.S. Department of Energy and its National Energy Technology Laboratory.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 54, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-382753

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