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South Africa to publish CO2 storage atlas
Storage, Oct 02 2008 (Carbon Capture Journal)
- The Council for Geoscience (CGS) in South Africa is leading an eighteen-month investigation into a CO2 Geological Storage Atlas for the country.
The project is sponsored by Sasol, Eskom, PetroSA, Anglo American and the South African National Energy Research Institute (SANERI).
The CGS, along with the Petroleum Agency of South Africa, has been appointed to compile and publish the resulting CO2 Geological Storage Atlas.
The atlas, which will be completed by December 2009, will report methodologies and the results of the storage potential evaluations for all the onshore and offshore basins of South Africa.
It will provide ranking of the basins according to risk and tectonic settings, and will discuss storage options. It will also contain illustrated maps showing the geographic distribution of the basins and relevant geological and seismic profiles to support salient findings.
Additional data, such as the estimated CO2 storage capacities of basins, the main emission sources, location of industrial complexes and transport issues will also be included.
The production of the atlas will involve a CO2-storage prospects assessment, which CGS says will most likely lead to further research, the development of a pilot project and potentially large-scale pilot CO2 storage ventures in South Africa.
