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Projects: Geologic Carbon Sequestration

National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP)

The National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP) — an initiative within DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and led by the National Energy Technology Laboratory—applies DOE’s core competency in science-based prediction for engineered–natural systems to the long-term storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).

Erika Gasperikova
Funded by DOE-FE-Office of Fossil Energy

Core Carbon Storage and Monitoring Research (CCSMR)

The Core Carbon Storage and Monitoring Research Program (CCSMR) aims to advance emergent monitoring and field operations optimization technologies that can be used in commercial carbon storage projects.

Pierpaolo Marchesini-portrait
Funded by DOE-FE-Office of Fossil Energy

Brine Extraction and Storage Test (BEST)

The overall objective of the EPRI-led BEST project to be performed at the Lansing Smith electric generating station near Panama City, Florida, is to help develop cost-effective pressure control, plume management and produced water strategies that can be used to improve reservoir storage efficiency and capacity, and demonstrate safe, reliable containment of CO2 in deep geologic formations with CO2 permanence of 99% or better.

Abdullah Cihan
Funded by DOE-FE-Office of Fossil Energy

Off-shore Geologic Carbon Sequestration in the Gulf of Mexico (GoMCarb)

LBNL is working with the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) and other partners in the Gulf of Mexico Partnership for Offshore Carbon Storage (GoMCarb) aimed at ensuring safe, long-term, and economically viable offshore storage of carbon in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) region.

Funded by DOE-FE-Office of Fossil Energy