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.

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, aBurying carbon dioxide might be the best way to keep it out of the atmosphere.

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.