The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership: Phase II and III Activities
Since its inception in 2003, the PCOR Partnership has brought together over 90 public and private sector groups working to lay the groundwork for practical and environmentally sound CO2 sequestration in the heartland of North America. Covering a region of nine states and four Canadian provinces, the PCOR Partnership is one of seven regional partnerships in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Initiative. The program partners contribute time, resources, and expertise in an effort to determine the best solutions to the safe, effective, and efficient management of CO2 emissions. Several means for geological storage of CO2 are available in the PCOR Partnership region, including depleted oil and gas reservoirs, deep saline aquifers, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and enhanced coalbed methane recovery. Studies into CO2 capture; transportation; storage; and monitoring, mitigation, and verification (MMV) have been, and continue to be, pursued to allow for the deployment of large-scale demonstrations. Understanding the fate of the injected CO2 is an important aspect of the emerging CCS technology. MMV activities are critical components of geological storage locations for two key reasons. First, the public must be assured that CO2 geological storage is a safe operation. Second, markets need assurance that credits are properly assigned, traded, and accounted for. Integrated geological and hydrogeological characterization and geochemical sampling and analysis programs are technologies that can document the movement of the injected gases and detect potential leakage from the storage unit. The PCOR Partnership region contains vast energy, agricultural, forest, and water resources and offers significant opportunities for both geologic and terrestrial sequestration. Three geologic field validation tests and one terrestrial test are now under way in Phase II. Each test exploreView/Download Document
Event/Meeting Information
2009 International Pittsburgh Coal Conference
9/21/2009
Pittsburgh, PA