In March, the Institute took part in a CCOP meeting in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, agreeing to support preparation work for a CO2 Storage Atlas of the best available estimates of potential CO2 storage capacity.
The CCS-M is designed to support existing CO2 geological storage research activities as well as initiate implementation of geological storage mapping in other member countries. The training courses and seminars planned for the initial phase will help build members’ knowledge in CCS, particularly the methodologies and standards for site selection, characterisation and storage capacity estimation, as well as the various applied CCS technologies.
CCS-M will provide a forum for knowledge sharing among member countries. A guideline for national CO2storage mapping, one of the expected outcomes of CCS-M, will be a useful and easy-to-use reference for all member countries for their own national storage mapping.