Sequestration News

This webpage provides links to announcements, newsletters, project abstracts, and other general news about carbon sequestration. For WESTCARB-specific news links, see WESTCARB News.

Select a link of interest from the list below to view the associated news or informational item.

January 14, 2010 Pre-Proposal Workshop - WESTCARB Assessment of Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) Plants with CO2 Capture and Storage

November 6, 2009—DOE Signs Cooperative Agreement for New Hydrogen Power Plant, (DOE Fossil Energy Techline)

October 12, 2009—Secretary Chu Issues Call to Action on Carbon Capture and Storage Technology, (DOE Letter to Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum)

October 2, 2009— Secretary Chu Announces First Awards from $1.4 Billion for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

September 16, 2009 – DOE Research Projects to Examine Promising Geologic Formations for CO2 Storage

September 15, 2009 – Department of Energy Awards $71 Million to Accelerate Innovative Carbon Capture Project

August 26, 2009 – Carbon Sequestration Documentary Wins Coveted Aurora Award (The documentary “Out of the Air – Into the Soil” features WESTCARB forestry-based projects in Shasta County, California)

August 24, 2009 – DOE Selects Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

July 1, 2009 – Secretary Chu Announces Two New Projects to Reduce Emissions from Coal Plants

June 12, 2009 – Secretary Chu Announces Agreement on FutureGen Project in Mattoon, Illinois

Climate Stewardship, a website developed by the WESTCARB partner, Western Shasta Resource Conservation District, which features a status summary of terrestrial sequestration activities in northern California and useful web links.

CA. GOV Demonstration State Forests—Carbon Sequestration, a website / portal developed by the WESTCARB partner, Cal Fire, with a useful set of reference links.

June 5, 2008—IEA Finds U.S. CO₂ Sequestration Program World's Most Ambitious (DOE Fossil Energy Techline)

May 27, 2009 – DOE Establishes National Carbon Capture Center to Speed Deployment of CO2 Capture Processes

May 14, 2009 – DOE Report Assesses Potential for Carbon Dioxide Storage Beneath Federal Lands

The Carbon Sequestration Newsletter, a monthly U.S. Department of Energy e-periodical summarizing recent news in the field of carbon sequestration, as well as the latest publications, events and announcements, and legislative activity.

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, a comprehensive report on sequestration technologies and opportunities developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. More than 100 experts from over 30 countries contributed to this special report.

Saline Aquifer CO₂ Storage (SACS), a large-scale demonstration of CO₂ injection into an underground saline formation from an offshore natural gas-producing platform in the Sleipner Field between Norway and Scotland.

CO₂ Capture Project, also known as the Carbon Capture Project, a research consortium comprising the U.S. Department of Energy, European Union, Norway Klimatek, and international energy companies, which is developing and demonstrating advanced technologies that can markedly reduce the cost of separating CO₂ from fossil power plant fuel or exhaust gases, processing it for shipping to storage sites, and injecting it into suitable geologic formations.

The Weyburn CO₂ Monitoring Project, an effort by Canadian oil producers and researchers, the International Energy Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, and others to monitor CO₂ stored in producing oil reservoirs as part of enhanced oil recovery operations in Saskatchewan. The resulting data will support the development and management of geologic sequestration projects.

May 22, 2007—Carbon Cemetery—Burying carbon dioxide might be the best way to keep it out of the atmosphere, an article in Plenty magazine about the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium's Phase II geologic pilot project in Illinois.

February 17, 2007—Carbon dioxide research goes underground, an article in the Denver Post summarizing the Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration's Phase II geologic pilot projects.

January 28, 2004—New Use for Teapot Dome, a CBSNEWS.com story about a U.S. Department of Energy geologic sequestration project in Wyoming.

March 20, 2003—First Geologic Sequestration Field Test in U.S. Under Way in New Mexico, an experiment measuring how injected CO₂ “soaks” into a depleted non-producing oil field, as a means of helping evaluate the potential of such reservoirs for geologic sequestration.

Reference Shelf, a page of the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory's Carbon Sequestration Website providing links to key reports, journals, and general news media coverage of its Carbon Sequestration Program.