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Carbon Capture and Storage - Legal and Regulatory Review

Click here to download the Carbon Capture and Storage Legal and Regulatory Review (CCS Review) of the International Energy Agency (IEA)

Directive 2009/30/EC

DIRECTIVE 2009/30/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 23 April 2009

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Capture and geological storage of CO2 : the Lacq demonstration (TOTAL)

Since January 2010, at Lacq in southwest France, TOTAL has been testing the first complete industrial-scale CCS chain in Europe.

Capturing and storing CO2 (Air Liquide)

The CO2 emitted in large quantities by factories can be concentrated, purified and then durably stored underground. This technique is a way of avoiding its massive release into the atmosphere. (Source: Air Liquide website)

Carbon capture and storage (Shell)

Much of the world’s rising energy demand will continue to be met by fossil fuels over the next decades. Developing ways to capture and store the CO2 that comes from burning them is essential to help avert serious climate change. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is currently the only technology available to mitigate emissions from large-scale fossil fuel use. Shell is helping to advance CCS through support for projects around the world. (Source: Shell website)

CO2 storage — Sleipner field beneath the North Sea (BGS-NERC)

With the release of the DTI's Carbon Abatement Technology Strategy, monitoring and learning from the existing underground carbon dioxide (CO2)storage project at Sleipner in the North Sea becomes even more important.
Natural gas produced at the Sleipner West field naturally contains about 9.5% CO2, which has to be removed to get the gas to saleable quality. Instead of venting the separated CO2 to the atmosphere, where it would add to the greenhouse problem, Statoil, the operators of the field, and their partners decided to inject it down a 3 km-long well and store it in a porous and permeable reservoir rock called the Utsira Sand (Source: BGS).

CO2GeoNet - The European Network of Excellence on the Geological Storage of CO2

CO₂ GeoNet is the European scientific authority dealing with all aspects of geological storage of CO₂, durably engaged in enabling the safe and efficient deployment of the CO₂ Capture and Storage (CCS) technology in order to mitigate climate change and ocean acidification.

Brochure: What does CO₂ geological storage really mean?

Global CCS Map

SCCS - Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage - interactive map of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects.

This map shows the location and details of operational and proposed commercial-scale projects capturing, transporting and storing 500,000 tonnes or more of CO₂ per year. Significant smaller pilot CO₂ capture, storage and full chain capture, transport and storage projects are also shown.

Leading the world in carbon capture and storage (Statoil)

Leading the world in carbon capture and storage - Carbon capture and storage represents a key technology for reducing CO2 emissions. Statoil has become a world-leader in its development and application.

Pilot site Ketzin

At the pilot site in Ketzin, 40 km west of Berlin, national and European projects coordinated by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, GFZ) have advanced our scientific understanding of how to store CO₂ geologically, and researched the processes of underground CO₂ injection and migration.

SiteChar

SiteChar – An EU project dedicated to the characterisation of European CO₂ storage sites

SiteChar will examine the whole site characterisation process integrating site characterisation, risk assessment and development of monitoring plans. The workflow will be tested at a range of onshore and offshore, saline aquifers and depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, representative of various geological contexts and located across Europe.