Projects

CCUS Projects in the PCOR Partnership Region

The commercial development of carbon, capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is already underway in the Plains CO₂ Reduction (PCOR) Partnership region. The commercial landscape is dominated by the number of CCUS projects that store CO₂ concurrently with the production of oil during CO₂ enhanced oil recovery (CO₂ EOR), i.e., associated storage. The remainder of the commercial CCUS activity in the United States is focused on the dedicated storage of CO₂—the injection of CO₂ into geologic formations specifically for the purpose of long-term storage. Commercial CCUS activity in Canada roughly parallels that of the United States, with CO₂ coming from various industrial sources being stored using a combination of associated and dedicated CO₂ storage.

CarbonSAFE Projects in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise, or CarbonSAFE Initiative, began in 2016 to address the key gaps on the critical path towards CCUS deployment. Building upon the knowledge and experience of the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships, like the PCOR Partnership, this initiative is performing identification and detailed characterization of geologic storage sites. The vision of CarbonSAFE is to understand the development of a CCUS storage complex from the feasibility study until the point of injection through the following phases of project progress: Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Pre-Feasibility (Phase I), Storage Complex Feasibility (Phase II), Site Characterization and Permitting (Phase III), and Construction (Phase IV).* Several projects have progressed through one or more phases.

*U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, CarbonSAFE Initiative, www.netl.doe.gov/carbon-management/carbon-storage/carbonsafe (accessed July 2025).

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