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ESPRC project report: Understanding the challenges of CO2 storage: results of the CASSEM Project

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a crucial technology to enable the decarbonisation of fossil fuel electricity generation. The UK has considerable potential for geological storage of CO2 under the North Sea and extensive offshore industry experience that could be applied. While initial storage is likely to be undertaken in depleted oil and gas fields, much larger saline aquifer formations are estimated to have sufficient capacity to securely contain 100 years of current UK fossil fuel power plant CO2 emissions. The CO2 Aquifer Storage Site Evaluation and Monitoring (CASSEM) project brings together the experience and different working practices of utilities, offshore operators, engineering contractors, and academic researchers to build collective understanding and develop expertise. CASSEM produced both new scientific knowledge and detailed insight into the CCS industry, developing best-value methods for the evaluation of saline aquifer formations for CO2 storage. Alongside work to assess the storage potential of two saline aquifer formations in close proximity to large coal power plant, CASSEM applied a novel Features, Events and Processes method to explore perceptions of risk in the work undertaken. This identified areas of industry and research community uncertainty and unfamiliarity to enable targeted investment of resource to reduce overall project risk. An openly accessible and flexible full chain (CO2 capture, transport and storage) costing model was developed allowing the CCS community to assess and explore overall costs. CASSEM's work also included the first use of citizen panels in the regions investigated for storage to assess public perception and educate the general public about CCS. CASSEM now plans to apply and further develop the methodologies established to test the viability of using a large offshore saline aquifer to store CO2 from multiple sources, leading to the proving of such a store by test injection of CO2.

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English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2012-10
Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605741

 

British Geological Survey

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NOTTINGHAM

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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

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United Kingdom

0115 936 3143
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Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth

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NOTTINGHAM

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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

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NG12 5GG

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United Kingdom

0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
 

British Geological Survey

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Energy storage

  • Energy

  • Energy conservation

  • Fossil fuels

  • Carbon

Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

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  • Geoscientific information
End date
2013-05-03
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Files located at http://www.sccs.org.uk/expertise/reports.html

 

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http://www.bgs.ac.uk/ukccs/accessions/index.html#item72729
Resource Locator
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/ukccs/accessions/index.html#item72729
 
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Dataset Reference Date ()
2011
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Report

Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

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Statement

Book published by Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage in October 2012, ISBN: 978-0-9571031-0-8

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Resource type
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Hierarchy level name

non geographic dataset

Metadata Date
2022-05-19
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

 

British Geological Survey


Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth

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NOTTINGHAM

,

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

,

NG12 5GG

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United Kingdom

+44 115 936 3100
 
 

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