· Offshore saline aquifer A Basalt Unknown Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Enhanced Oil Recovery...

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1996

Sleipner

1Mt/y CO2

19982000

20022004

20062008

Weyburn

2.5 Mt/y CO2

Snohvit

0.7Mt/y CO2

20102012

20142016

2018

In-Salah

1.2 Mt/y CO2

160km sub

sea pipeline350km overland

pipeline

Gorgon

3Mt/y CO2

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Demonstration

Projects

Sleipner

Unconfined sand body

High porosity

No pressure build up

Open system DSF

Utsira Fm.

Sleipner CO2 injection 1994

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2008

2008-1994

CO2 plume in map view

Time-lapse seismic data

Sleipner – open system

Weyburn

In-Salah

Snohvit- closed system?

The impact of the gas is limited. Schools of fish swim

around the gas plume Panarea, Italy. INGV

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CO

2 f

lux (

g m

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CO2 flux - leakage only at permeable points along faults

Latera caldera

Prof Lombardi. URS

Ecosystems adapt