Elsevier

Energy Procedia

Volume 114, July 2017, Pages 4629-4636
Energy Procedia

Mid-Atlantic U.S. Offshore Carbon Storage Resource Assessment

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Abstract

Attention to offshore prospects for geologic storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the U.S. is required to address numerous large point sources located along the U.S. Atlantic Coast. Research is underway to develop a reliable method for screening candidate storage formations with the greatest potential for effective, permanent storage of CO2, and producing data-driven regional-scale estimates of the prospective CO2 storage resource that exists offshore of the Mid-Atlantic U.S. This paper introduces the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Offshore Carbon Storage Resource Assessment project, describes the technical approach to achieve project goals, and presents preliminary results. The existing data set and challenges for data collection and analysis also are discussed.

Keywords

CO2 storage
offshore
storage potential
resource assessment
characterization

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Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of GHGT-13.