Sentences with phrase «deep saline formations»

Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is a family of technologies and techniques that enable the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fuel combustion or industrial processes, the transport of CO2 via ships or pipelines, and its storage underground, in depleted oil and gas fields and deep saline formations.

«The real challenge is in proving not so much the capture part but that you can pipeline and inject this CO2 on a very large scale into a deep saline formation,» he says.

Not exact matches

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.

Most deep water formation (in today's climate) occurs where fairly saline water is chilled to near freezing.