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EU-funded Projects;
Demonstration and Actual Injection Projects;
UK Government;
USA Goverment;
USA and Canada University Projects;
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Energy and Carbon Organisations;
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News Sheets;
Other including European Government-funded projects

General information

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme

IEA CO₂ capture and storage

UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) homepage

Towards a Sustainable Economy (TSEC) - a UK Research Council funded project

UK Government Parlimentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) note on Carbon Capture and Storage  

Zero Emission Platform: European industry alliance developing CCS policies and 12 or more projects in EU, ZEP

Cordis Framework 6 data base (EU funded)

Cordis Framework 5 data base (EU funded)

International Energy Authority (IEA) database.

EU-funded projects

The Joint Research Centre's Institute for Energy includes report:"Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Carbon Dioxide in the European Energy System"

Framework 6

ENCAP Enhanced CO₂ capture in powerstations

CASTOR CO₂ from capture to storage

CO₂SINK  In-situ laboratory for capture and storage of CO₂

CO₂GeoNet   Network of excellence on sequestration of CO2

InCA-CO₂ International Co-operation Actions on CO₂ Capture and Storage. IFP press release

ISSC  Innovative in-situ CO₂ capture technology for solid fuel gasification

Framework 5 (1989 - 2002)

AZEP  Advanced Zero Emissions Powerplant. Project descrbed by CORDIS

GRACE  Grangemouth Advanced Capture Project

GESTCO  Assessment of European geological storage potential

CO₂STORE  SACS2 follow up on land

NASCENT  Natural analogues for CO₂ storage in Europe by the British Geological Survey

RECOPOL Enhanced coal bed methane

WEYBURN  monitoring of the Canadian Weyburn Project

SACS2  Monitoring of the Sleipner Project

CO_²NET  Thematic network

Framework 4

Joule III 1994-98 phase of the Non-Nuclear Energy Programme: apparently does not include geological research

Framework 3

Joule II, 1990-94 phase of the Non-Nuclear Energy Programme: includes project into geological sequestration of CO₂. Pdf summary.

Framework 2

Joule I 1989-92 Non Nuclear Energies and the Rational Use of Energy Programme

Carbon Capture Project Industry funded Carbon Capture project since 2000

Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum

Canadian CO₂ Capture and Storage Technology Network (CCCSTN)

Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) and GEODISC, part of Australian Cooperative Petroleum Research Centre (APCRC)

Drym Power Station, South Wales UK, a proposal to build a hydrogen-burning power station.

Gorgon Development Chevron Texaco NW Australia offshore gas with CO₂ re-injection.

Gulf Coast Carbon Center Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas, USA. Onshore CO₂ disposal into saline aquifers. Many links.

IEA CO₂ capture and storage

In Salah, Algeria. Separated CO₂ from produced gas to be re-imjected into the sub-surface.  BP video and website

Saline Aquifer CO2 Storage (SACS) - an offshore demonstration at the Sleipner field. Research into subsurface CO₂ disposal.

Statoil (Norway) is currently separating CO₂ from produced gas and re-injecting it back into the sub-surface at the Sleipner Field, and intends to do the same at the Snøhvit field.

Teapot Dome Oil Field large scale sequestration test, Wyoming, 2.6Mt/year.

Total in SW France Oxy-fuel gas firing, followed by injection into depleted gas field Lacq and Rouse field

Weyburn Field CO₂ injection, Canada, Petroleum Technology Research Centre

West Pearl Queen Field, NM - 'Sequestration of CO2 in a Depleted Oil Reservoir: A Comprehensive Modeling & Site Monitoring Project' funded by the DOE/NETL Carbon Sequestration program. Pdf summary. Modelling paper.

UK Government

Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Energy

DTI Coal including CO₂ sequestration

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Climate Change: United Kingdom Third National Communication

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Publication 238- Carbon capture and storage (CCS)

Westminister Energy Forum Strategic Analysis of Energy Risk and Policy

USA Government

U.S. Dept. of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - calculate fuel consumption of your car

U.S. Dept. of Energy Carbon Sequestration R&D

President Bush's Endorsement Of Carbon Sequestration in Climate Change Policy 2001

National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Carbon Sequestration

NETL Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI)

NETL FutureGen, the Integrated Sequestration and Hydrogen Research Initiative

NETL Coal use by gasification

USA and Canada University projects

The Stanford University Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) reserches a global energy system with low greenhouse gas emissions. Report 2003 - 2004.

The Princeton University Carbon Mitigation Initiative looks for solutions to the greenhouse and global warming problem, by means of reducing global carbon dioxide emissions. 2005 presentations are here. Related article in Science magazine 2004

NGO

Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage

Bellona Foundation report on Workshop on Carbon capture and storage (C&S) and Hydrogen, Brussels, September 23rd and 24th, 2003

Energy and Carbon Organisations

The Carbon Trust

Energy Saving Trust (EST)

£10 million for Renewable Energy Installations from the UK Government and BRE

Ground Source Heat Pumps

World Coal Institute Clean Coal Technologies

Advanced Power Generation Technology Forum (APGTF)

Kinder Morgan CO₂ U.S. transporter and marketer of carbon dioxide

UK Offshore Operators Association (UKOOA)

International Energy Annual 2002 CO₂ emissions from use of fossil fuels

French Petroleum Institute CO₂

Legal

Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

News sheets

GreenHouse Gas Online

CO₂ Science

Climate Change Impacts on the South West (of the UK)

Utah Geological Survey Carbon Sequestration Project (USA)

CO₂ Re-use through Underground Storage (CRUST). A project funded by the Dutch Government. Web-site in Dutch. To get an English summary, type 'English' into the search box and click 'Zoek'.

SIBILLA, Italian Government funded search for subsurface disposal sites in Italy. IEA description.