Sentences with phrase «deep saline aquifers»

In these new plants, the CO2 can be removed, compressed into an oil - like fluid, then injected underground in abandoned gas and oil wells or deep saline aquifers.

In Australia carbon dioxide could theoretically be sequestered in depleted oil or gas fields (not expected to be sufficiently depleted until 2030), deep underground unmineable coal seams, or deep saline aquifers.

Such rock, known as basalt, might be better than other sites, such as deep saline aquifers or nearly empty oil wells, because the rock not only stores CO2 but also over a relatively short period of years forms carbonate minerals out of it — in other words, limestone.

A more common type of subterranean structure — deep saline aquifers — has the potential to store up to 100,000 gigatonnes.

At a demonstration project in Japan, even a magnitude 6.8 earthquake didn't shake injected CO2 loose from a deep saline aquifer; the wellheads did not so much as leak.

This project will inject up to 300,000 tonnes of gas per year, depending on Cenovus's operations, into a 3.5 - kilometer - deep saline aquifer (a thin layer of brine - soaked porous rock) for storage.

The other cause of potential leaks, old «legacy» wells, is also minimal because the deep saline aquifer where Quest's CO2 will be stored has no oil or gas resources and as a result has not seen drilling to any significant extent.

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Sequestration, as envisioned in the report, involves capturing the CO2 from coal - fired power plants, compressing it into a liquid and injecting it deep beneath the earth into old oil fields or saline aquifers.

Some of the power generated would be used to compress the CO2 and pump it deep underground to be permanently stored in saline aquifers.

Pilot projects in Algeria, Japan, and Norway indicate that CO2 can be stored in underground geologic formations such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs, deep coal seams, and saline aquifers.

This is the horror scenario for developers of carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS, which envisions grabbing carbon dioxide from industrial facilities and pumping the gas into saline aquifers and other deep geologic formations for permanent storage.

Any leftover carbon dioxide will be stored in a deep underground salt - water reservoir, called a saline aquifer.