The path to a successful one-million tonne demonstration of geological sequestration: Characterization, cooperation, and collaboration

Finley, R. J.; Greenberg, S. E.; Frailey, S. M.; Krapac, I. G.; Leetaru, H. E.; Marsteller, S.

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The development of the Illinois Basin-Decatur USA test site for a 1 million tonne injection of CO2 into the Mount Simon Sandstone saline reservoir beginning in 2011 has been a multiphase process requiring a wide array of personnel and resources that began in 2003. The process of regional characterization took two years as part of a Phase I effort focused on the entire Illinois Basin, located in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, USA. Seeking the cooperation of an industrial source of CO2 and site selection within the Basin took place during Phase II while most of the concurrent research emphasis was on a set of small-scale tests of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and CO2 injection into a coal seam. Phase III began the commitment to the 1 million-tonne test site development through the collaboration of the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) who is providing a site, the CO2, and developing a compression facility, of Schlumberger Carbon Services who is providing expertise for operations, drilling, geophysics, risk assessment, and reservoir modelling, and of the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) whose geologists and engineers lead the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC). Communications and outreach has been a collaborative effort of ADM, ISGS and Schlumberger Carbon Services. The Consortium is one of the seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships, a carbon sequestration research program supported by the National Energy Technology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy. ?? 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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Finley, R. J.; Greenberg, S. E.; Frailey, S. M.; Krapac, I. G.; Leetaru, H. E.; Marsteller, S.

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The path to a successful one-million tonne demonstration of geological sequestration: Characterization, cooperation, and collaboration; 2011; Conference Paper; Energy Procedia; Finley, R. J.; Greenberg, S. E.; Frailey, S. M.; Krapac, I. G.; Leetaru, H. E.; Marsteller, S.