The Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership: Demonstrating Carbon Dioxide Storage in the United States and Canada
The Plains CO2;Reduction (PCOR) Partnership is one of seven regional partnerships awarded in 2003 by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory to determine the best approaches to geologic storage and apply technologies to safely and permanently demonstrate the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). The PCOR Partnership region covers an area of over 1.4 million square miles in the central interior of North America and includes all or part of nine U.S. states and four Canadian provinces. As part of the PCOR Partnership effort, a number of industrial partners have joined the program to undertake commercial-scale CO2;storage projects, regional characterization efforts, and large-scale CO2;storage project feasibility studies. Currently in the eighth year of the demonstration phase, the PCOR Partnership is testing the validity of different characterization, modeling and simulation, risk assessment, and monitoring techniques and technologies to advance the science of CO2;storage in geologic formations. Completed efforts to date include a best practices manual for a feasibility study surrounding the potential to inject over 2 million tonnes of CO2;a year near Spectra Energy's Fort Nelson Gas-Processing Plant [1, 2]; the cView/Download Document
Event/Meeting Information
International Forum on Recent Developments of CCS Implementation
3/26/2015
Athens,