12 January 2023: Mission Innovation webinar on Biomass Carbon Dioxide Removal
 
The Mission Innovation Carbon Dioxide Removal Mission organised a two-hour webinar on BiCRS, or Biomass Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage, on 12 January 2023. The programme can found here.

September 1, 2020

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has selected 27 projects for cost-shared research and development under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002187 and  (FOA) DE-FOA-0002188. 

Below is a listing of the projects. More information can be found here.

The projects under DE-FOA-0002187 Carbon Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources are:

AOI 1 (Subtopic 1.1): CO2 Capture and Compression from Industrial Sources

(1) Enabling Production of Low Carbon Emissions Steel Through CO2 Capture from Blast Furnace Gases — ArcelorMittal USA (Chicago, IL). DOE Funding: $1,487,794; Non-DOE Funding: $371,949; Total: $1,859,742

(2) LH CO2MENT Colorado Project — Electricore (Valencia, CA). DOE Funding: $1,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $430,524; Total: $1,930,524

(3) Engineering Design of a Polaris Membrane CO2 Capture System at a Cement Plant — Membrane Technology and Research (MTR) Inc. (Newark, CA).DOE Funding: $1,493,318; Non-DOE Funding: $373,329; Total: $1,866,647

(4) Engineering Design of a Linde-BASF Advanced Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Technology at a Linde Steam Methane Reforming H2 Plant  — Praxair (Danbury, CT).DOE Funding: $1,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $405,328; Total: $1,905,328

AOI 1 (Subtopic 1.2): CO2 Capture and Compression from Ethanol Plants

(5) Initial Engineering and Design for CO2 Capture from Ethanol Facilities — University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, ND).DOE Funding: $1,499,954; Non-DOE Funding: $375,000; Total: $1,874,954

AOI 2 (Subtopic 2.1): Carbon Capture Testing on Natural Gas Flue Gas

(6) Chevron Natural Gas Carbon Capture Technology Testing Project — Chevron USA. Inc. (San Ramon, CA.DOE Funding: $13,000,000; Non-DOE Funding: $3,272,127; Total: $16,272,127

(7) Engineering-scale Demonstration of Transformational Solvent on NGCC Flue Gas ­— ION Clean Energy Inc. (Boulder, CO).DOE Funding: $13,000,000; Non-DOE Funding: $3,906,839; Total: $16,906,839

AOI 2 (Subtopic 2.2): Carbon Capture Testing on Coal Flue Gas or Coal and Natural Gas Flue Gas

(8) Engineering-Scale Test of a Water-Lean Solvent for Post-Combustion Capture — Electric Power Research Institute Inc. (Palo Alto, CA).DOE Funding: $4,129,607; Non-DOE Funding: $1,032,411; Total: $5,162,018

(9) Engineering Scale Design and Testing of Transformational Membrane Technology for CO2 Capture — Gas Technology Institute (GTI) (Des Plaines, IL). DOE Funding: $13,000,000; Non-DOE Funding: $3,250,000; Total: $16,250,000

The projects under (FOA) DE-FOA-0002188, Novel Research and Development for the Direct Capture of Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere are:

(1) Direct Air Capture Using Novel Structured Adsorbents. Electricore (Valencia, CA).DOE Funding: $2,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $712,880; Total: $3,212,880

(2) Advanced Integrated Reticular Sorbent-Coated System to Capture CO2 from the Atmosphere. GE Research (Niskayuna, NY).DOE Funding: $799,981; Non-DOE Funding: $199,995; Total: $999,976

(3) MIL-101(Cr)-Amine Sorbents Evaluation Under Realistic Direct Air Capture Conditions. Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, GA). DOE Funding: $755,166; Non-DOE Funding: $191,482; Total: $946,648

(4) Demonstration of a Continuous-Motion Direct Air Capture System. Global Thermostat Operations, LLC (New York, NY). DOE Funding: $2,499,996; Non-DOE Funding: $850,000; Total: $3,349,996

(5) Experimental Demonstration of Alkalinity Concentration Swing for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide.Harvard University (Cambridge, MA).DOE Funding: $720,048; Non-DOE Funding: $180,858; Total: $900,906

(6) High-Performance, Hybrid Polymer Membrane for Carbon Dioxide Separation from Ambient Air. InnoSense, LLC (Torrance, CA). DOE Funding: $799,998; Non-DOE Funding: $200,001; Total: $999,999

(7) Transformational Sorbent Materials for a Substantial Reduction in the Energy Requirement for Direct Air Capture of CO2. InnoSepra, LLC (Middlesex, NJ).DOE funding: $800,000; Non-DOE Funding: $200,000; Total: $1,000,000

(8) A Combined Water and CO2 Direct Air Capture System. IWVC, LLC (Venice, CA). DOE Funding: $2,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $672,000; Total: $3,172,000

(9) TRAPS: Tunable, Rapid-uptake, AminoPolymer Aerogel Sorbent for Direct Air Capture of CO2. Palo Alto Research Center (Palo Alto, CA). DOE Funding: $799,998; Non-DOE Funding: $200,000; Total: $999,998

(10) Direct Air Capture Using Trapped Small Amines in Hierarchical Nanoporous Capsules on Porous Electrospun Hollow Fibers. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). DOE Funding: $800,000; Non-DOE Funding: $200,000; Total: $1,000,000

(11) Development of Advanced Solid Sorbents for Direct Air Capture. RTI International (Research Triangle Park, NC). DOE Funding: $800,000; Non-DOE Funding: $200,502; Total: $1,000,502

(12) Direct Air Capture Recovery of Energy for CCUS Partnership (DAC RECO2UP). Southern States Energy Board. DOE Funding: $2,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $651,790; Total: $3,151,790

(13) Membrane Adsorbents Comprising Self-Assembled Inorganic Nanocages (SINCs) for Super-fast Direct Air Capture Enabled by Passive Cooling. SUNY (Amherst, NY). DOE Funding: $800,000; Non-DOE Funding: $200,000; Total: $1,000,000

(14) Low Regeneration Temperature Sorbents for Direct Air Capture of CO2. Susteon Inc. (Cary, NY). DOE Funding: $799,687; Non-DOE Funding: $200,000; Total: $999,687

(15) Next Generation Fiber-Encapsulated Nanoscale Hybrid Materials for Direct Air Capture with Selective Water Rejection. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, NY). DOE Funding: $800,000; Non-DOE Funding: $200,000; Total: $1,000,000

(16) Gradient Amine Sorbents for Low Vacuum Swing CO2 Capture at Ambient Temperature. The University of Akron (Akron, OH). DOE Funding: $800,000; Non-DOE Funding: $200,262; Total: $1,000,262

(17) Electrochemically-Driven Carbon Dioxide Separation. University of Delaware (Newark, DE). DOE Funding: $800,000; Non-DOE Funding: $200,000; Total: $1,000,000

(18) Development of Novel Materials for Direct Air Capture of CO2. University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, KY). DOE Funding: $699,509; Non-DOE Funding: $174,904; Total: $874,413

April 2020.

DoE announces that five applications have been selected for negotiations from the FOA. Each is described below:

(1) Illinois Storage Corridor – The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL) will characterize and obtain UIC Class VI permits to construct two sites: a storage site near the One Earth Energy ethanol facility and a storage site at the Prairie State Generating Company. The sites will store a combined 6.5 million metric tons of CO2 captured annually. The project seeks to accelerate commercial deployment of CCUS within the Illinois Storage Corridor, a region with proven geologic storage performance and numerous industrial carbon sources. DOE: $ 18,106,527; Non-DOE: $7,299,291; Total: $25,405,818

(2) San Juan Basin CarbonSAFE Phase III: Ensuring Safe Subsurface Storage of CO2 in Saline Reservoirs – New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Socorro, NM) will perform comprehensive commercial-scale site characterization of a storage complex located in northwest New Mexico to accelerate the deployment of integrated carbon capture and storage technology at the San Juan Generating Station, a nearby 847 megawatt coal-fired electricity generation plant. CO2 capture utilizing Mitsubishi Heavy Industry’s KM CDR Process will be studied under funding from a previous project awarded from FOA DE-FOA-0002058. DOE: $17,499,905; Non-DOE: $4,428,108; Total: $21,928,014

(3) Establishing an Early CO2 Storage Complex in Kemper County, Mississippi: Project ECO2S – Southern States Energy Board (Peachtree Corner, GA) will lead a project team composed of 16 universities, labs, and private companies in establishing a CO2 Storage Complex in Kemper County, Mississippi. Previous characterization efforts identified a geologic setting adjacent to the Kemper County Energy Facility as a world class geologic area capable of securely storing over 900 million metric tons of CO2. T DOE awarded a FEED study project for Plant Daniel from FOA DE-FOA-000258. DOE: $17,479,430; Non-DOE: $6,113,380; Total: $23,592,810

(4) North Dakota CarbonSAFE Phase III: Site Characterization and Permitting – University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) (Grand Forks, ND) will fully characterize and seek UIC Class VI permits to construct injection wells at a commercial-scale storage complex. As part of Minnkota Power’s Project Tundra, the two injection sites near Minnkota’s Milton R. DOE: $16,987,438; Non-DOE: $7,958,800; Total: $24,946,238

(5) Wyoming CarbonSAFE: Accelerating CCUS Commercialization and Deployment at Dry Fork Power Station and the Wyoming Integrated Test Center – University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY) will finalize the characterization and obtain a Class VI permit to construct a storage complex in Campbell County, Wyoming. Results of a FEED study of CO2 capture utilizing Membrane Technology and Research Inc.’s two-stage membrane process from an award under DE-FOA-0002058 will be integrated into this project. DOE: $15,247,075; Non-DOE: $3,856,389; Total: $19,103,464

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will manage the selected projects.

The Office of Fossil Energy funds research and development projects to reduce the risk and cost of advanced fossil energy technologies and further the sustainable use of the Nation’s fossil resources. To learn more about the programs within the Office of Fossil Energy, visit the Office of Fossil Energy website or sign up for FE news announcements. More information about the National Energy Technology Laboratory is available on the NETL website.

November 1, 2019. DOE Announces Funding to Collaborate Internationally and Accelerate CCUS.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced federal funding for national laboratories to collaborate with international partners to accelerate and mature carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects. The collaboration will be on seven of the 12 projects that were selected as part of the Accelerating Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (ACT) Initiative. The ACT Initiative is a consortium of 10 European countries (France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom) and the United States. From energy.gov on November 1, 2019.

October 2019. DOE/NETL Conference Proceedings Available Online.

Proceedings from the “2019 PROCEEDINGS - ADDRESSING THE NATION’S ENERGY NEEDS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION – 2019 CARBON CAPTURE, UTILIZATION, STORAGE, AND OIL AND GAS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED REVIEW MEETING” held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA), on August 26 -30, 2019, are available online. Included are posters and presentations from the meeting.

The link to the proceedings can be found here.

September 23, 2019: DoE announces support to nine Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) Studies for Carbon Capture Systems on Coal and Natural Gas Power Plants

The nine projects are (for more information, see here):

1. FEED Study for Retrofitting a 2x2x1 Natural Gas-Fired Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plant for Carbon Capture Storage/Utilization – Bechtel National (Reston, VA) 

2. Full-Scale FEED Study for Retrofitting the Prairie State Generating Station with an 816 MWe Capture Plant Using Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of America Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Technology – The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL) 

3. Front End Engineering Design Study for Retrofit Post-Combustion Carbon Capture on a Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant – Electric Power Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA) 

4. Large-Scale Commercial Carbon Capture Retrofit of the San Juan Generating Station – Enchant Energy (New York, NY) 

5. Commercial Carbon Capture Design & Costing: Part Two – Ion Engineering (Boulder, CO) 

6. Commercial-Scale Front-End Engineering Study for MTR’s Membrane CO2 Capture Process – Membrane Technology and Research Inc. (Newark, CA) 

7. Front-End Engineering & Design: Project Tundra Carbon Capture System – Minnkota Power Cooperative Inc. (Grand Forks, ND) 

8. Front End Engineering Design of Linde-BASF Advanced Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Technology at a Southern Company Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant – Southern Company Services (Birmingham, AL) 

9. Piperazine/Advanced Stripper Front-End Engineering Design (PZAS FEED) – The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX) 

May 2019: US DOE announces support to one storage and one capture project

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected two additional projects to receive $5 million in total federal funding:  DDeveloping CO2-EOR and Associated Storage within the Residual Oil Zone Fairways of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming – University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY), and  Bench-Scale Testing of a High-Efficiency, Ultra-Compact Process for Pre-Combustion CO2 Capture — University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA). A key priority for FE is to reduce the cost and risk of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies to accelerate widespread deployment. 

More in formation here.

February 28, 2019. DoE/NETL select eight projstorage and one capture projects for funding.

The selected projects, with a total grant of US$ 24 mill., will focus on the development of solvent, sorbent, and membrane technologies to address scientific challenges and knowledge gaps associated with reducing the cost of carbon capture. The eight projects are

• Advanced Structured Adsorbent Architectures for Transformative CO2 Capture Performance – Electricore, Inc.(Valencia, CA)

• Transformational Sorbent-Based Process for a Substantial Reduction in the Cost of CO2 Capture – InnoSepra, Inc. (Middlesex, NJ)

• Validation of Transformational CO2 Capture Solvent Technology with Revolutionary Stability – ION Engineering, LLC (Boulder, CO)

• Novel Transformational Membranes and Process for CO2 Capture from Flue Gas – Ohio State University(Columbus, OH)

• Transformational Molecular Layer Deposition Tailor-Made Size-Sieving Sorbents for Post-Combustion CO2Capture – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)

• Rational Development of Novel Metal-Organic Polyhedra-Based Membranes for CO2 Capture – Research Foundation for SUNY on behalf of the University at Buffalo (Amherst, NY)

• Novel Next Generation Sorbent System for Post-Combustion CO2 Capture – TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, CO)

• Fog + Froth-Based Post-Combustion CO2 Capture in Fossil-Fuel Power Plants – University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, KY)

October 2018. DOE/NETL Conference Proceedings Available Online.

Proceedings from the “2018 Mastering the Subsurface Through Technology Innovation, Partnerships, and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting,” held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA), on August 13-16, 2018, are available online. Included are posters and presentations from the meeting.

03 October 2018: Fluor to test capture technology at Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM). Read more here.

28 August 2018: DOE Invests to Advance Associated Geologic Storage.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) selected two projects to receive federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D). Selected under Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001829, “Developing Technologies for Advancement of Associated Geologic Storage in Basinal Geo-Laboratories,” the projects will address technical research needs and key challenges in advancing associated geologic storage in support of DOE’s Carbon Storage Program. In addition, the projects will support the development of best practices for commercial implementation of carbon storage technologies. From energy.gov on August 28, 2018.

Fall 2018: The Norway Full Scale CCS Project.

10 September 2018. Permission to develop storage site for the Norwegian Full Scale CCS project.

Equinor, Shell and Total submitted application to develop a storage site for the Norwegian Full Scale Project. The project, called Northern Light, will start with concept FEED studies. Permission to develop the site is expected by the end of 2018, see the press release for more information.

10 August 2018. Klemetsrud waste-to -energy plant approved for FEED

The Fortum Oslo Varme Klemetsrud (FOV) waste to energy plant i joins the Norcem cement plant in Brevik in the Norwegian Full Scale CCS Project. 15 May 2018 The Norwegian Government proposed to fund FEED studies (Front End Engineering and Design studies) with 80 million NOK in 2018. The total funding for the demonstration project in 2018 amounts to 280 million NOK, including funds transferred from 2017. The proposed funds for 2018 will cover FEED studies of CO2 transport, storage and up to two capture facilities. However, funds were only granted to Norcem, a subsidiary of Heidelberg Cement, whereas The Fortum Oslo Varme's original project was deemed to have greater implementation risks related to, inter alia, the length of the pipeline, and public perception of having emissions of amines close to a city  The cost estimates are also considerably higher, compared to the other two. However, updated information has now beed assessed, and the Government has offered FOV support for FEED.

The NORCEM cement plant at Brevik is considered to be most advanced and likely for implementation oc CCS of th three plants. The Government is offering Norcem, , state aid to study CO2-capture at Brevik. These are

Continued studies on CO2-capture at Yara's ammonia plant at Herøya in Porsgrunn has been not recommended. Yara's project has a smaller learning potential compared to the two others, and some uncertainties concerning the plant. Yara considers that it does not make sense industrially to continue the planning of their project.

For more, see MPE's press release here and here.

August 2018: Energy Department Invests $7M to Advance Associated Geological Storage.

The two projects are

• Stacked Greenfield and Brownfield ROZ Fairways in the Illinois Basin Geo-Laboratory: Co-Optimization of EOR and Associated CO2 Storage – The University of Illinois (Champaign, IL)

• Williston Basin CO2 Field Laboratory – University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, ND)

More information here.

25 July 2018. Energy Department Invests $10.7M in Technologies that Assess Subsurface Stress for Carbon Storage

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) selected five projects to receive approximately $10.7 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development. More information here.

24 May 2018. Mission Innovation CCUS Challenge - Workshop Report released

25 - 28 september 2017 the Mission Innovation CCUS Challenge organised a workshop with international experts to discuss basic research and development (R&D) needs in CO2 capture, CO2 utilization, geologic storage, and cross-cutting CCUS topics. The experts agreed on the most critical scientific challenges associated with CCUS, and they established a set of Priority Research Directions (PRDs). The objective of the PRDs is to inspire research that has the potential to make a significant impact on CCUS technology performance.  The report includes 30 PRDs to guide future CCUS R&D and is available here.

February 2018. US Department of Energy Invests $44M in Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has selected seven projects to receive approximately $44 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development through the funding opportunity announcement, Design and Testing of Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies. The following four projects were selected under Area of Interest 1, Scaling of Carbon Capture Technologies to Engineering Scales Using Existing Host Site Infrastructure and will test at the Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM):

- Scale-Up and Testing of Advanced Polaris Membrane CO2 Capture Technology – Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (MTR, Newark, CA)

- Engineering-Scale Testing of Transformational Non-Aqueous Solvent-Based CO2 Capture Process at Technology Centre Mongstad – RTI International (Research Triangle Park, NC)

- Engineering-Scale Demonstration of Mixed-Salt Process for CO2 Capture – SRI International (Menlo Park, CA)

- Membrane-Sorbent Hybrid System for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture – TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, CO).

More information here.

3 December 2017. Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) launches new Technology Roadmap (TRM) and Task Force report on Offshore CO2-EOR. 

CSLF has launched the 2017 version of their Technology Roadmap. The new TRM includes for the first time quantitative targets, based on the 2 degree scenario (2DS) of the IEA Technology Perspectives 2017. It has also increased emphasis on CCS applied to industrial processes and the importance of clusters, hubs and infrastructure to bring the cost of CCS down.

CSLF also launched the report "Enabling Large-scale CCS using Offshore CO2 Utilization and Storage Infrastructure Developments", which gives status, examples, introduction of emerging technologies, monitoring, regulations review, and recommendations related to offshore CO2-EOR.

7 November 2017: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) awards $8 million  to assess offshore geologic storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) and technology development in the Gulf of Mexico.

The new projects, operated by Southeast Regional Carbon Storage Partnership: Offshore Gulf of Mexico, and Offshore Gulf of Mexico Partnership for Carbon Storage—Resources and Technology Development—The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX), will focus on assembling the knowledge base required for secure, long-term, large-scale CO2 storage, with or without enhanced hydrocarbon recovery, and assessing technology-development needs (infrastructure, operational, monitoring), which differ from those onshore. 

1 November 2017. Two ISO standards on CCS launch in Norway.

The International Organisation for Standards (ISO) has recently published its first two standards in a series of CCS standards. The Norwegian launch took place at the Petroleum Directorate 1 November 2017. The two standards, ISO 27913:2016 Carbon dioxide capture, transportation and geological storage - Pipeline transportation systems, and ISO 27914:2017 Carbon dioxide capture, transportation and geological storage - Geological storage, are available for sale from ISO website.

27 October 2017: Two new storage projects selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy.

The US Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy announced two projects have been selected to receive approximately $4 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development for the safe storage of CO2 in geologic formations. Th proejcets are 

• Integration of Seismic-Pressure-Petrophysics Inversion of Continuous Active-Source Seismic Monitoring Data for Monitoring and Quantifying CO2 Plume—The Pennsylvania State University

• Joint Inversion of Time-Lapse Seismic Data—The University of North Dakota

More about the project awards here.

Ambitious plans for CCS in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the run up to COP23. 

Recently,  the UK Government and the Dutch Government Coalition Agreement announced ambitious proposals for a target to reduce emissions. The UK Government’s Clean Growth Strategy, published October 12, 2017, recognises the crucial role of CCS technology will have to play in reducing CO2 emissions and laid out a vision for its large-scale deployment from 2030. In The Netherlands, the vision is to reduce emissions by 49% by 2030, going beyond the current EU target. The document, (see also a summary on the CATO homepage) published on 10th October, also outlines a key role for CCS, with a commitment to storing 20 million tonnes of CO2 per year by 2030. This accounts for around 1/3 of the overall effort. Likewise,

The conference proceedings DOE NETL conferences 2017.

1) The conference proceedings the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2017  CO2 Capture Technology Project Review Meeting are now available here.

Researchers representing more than 50 of the active projects in the Carbon Capture Program’s project portfolio gave presentations covering their research and development (R&D) work in advanced solvents, sorbents, membranes, and CO2 compression for post- and pre-combustion projects that range from laboratory scale to large pilot-scale applications. An extensive session on CO2 reuse provided updates on 10 projects in this area, while presentations about Systems Studies and Modeling provided attendees with updates on CO2 capture-related systems analysis activities. Presentations  also provided insight into carbon capture projects and technology development in Norway (CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad) and Australia; a global perspective on the status of carbon capture by  the International Energy Agency, as well as an update on the International Test Center Network. 

2) The conference proceedings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2017 Mastering the Subsurface through Technology Innovation, Partnerships and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting are now available here. 

This meeting included three days of plenaries with technical updates from the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership’s large-scale field projects, as well as from other domestic and international subsurface research efforts, both onshore and offshore. Parallel technical sessions covered research from infrastructure projects; geologic storage projects; monitoring, verification and accounting projects; simulation and risk assessment projects; and CO2 use/re-use projects. It also included interactive poster sessions Interactive poster sessions

THE CO2 STORAGE DATA CONSORTIUM (CSDC)

THE CO2 STORAGE DATA CONSORTIUM (CSDC) invites scientists and organisations holding CO2 storage data or otherwise active in CO2 storage to make contact. The CSDC is a new international network aimed at promoting data sharing from pioneering CO2 storage projects in order to accelerate innovation and deployment of CCS. The initiative was launched during GHGT-13 and the aim of the event was to explain the objectives of CSDC and to gain feedback from potential participants. CSDC was also presented at the US-Norway bilateral side event following the CLIMIT Summit in Oslo, Norway March 8, 2017. The CSDC Secretariat can be contacted at <grethe.tangen@sintef.no>. 

CLIMIT SUMMIT

8 MARCH 2017. SUCCESSFUL SIDE EVENT AT THE CLIMIT SUMMIT IN OSLO. The CLIMIT Summit in Oslo 7 - 8 march 2017 was followed by a side event where researchers from USA and Norway presented present and potential future collaboration within CCUS. For more, take a look at the summary and presentations.