Carbon Dioxide Transport and Sequestration in the Submerged Lands of the United States Gulf of Mexico Region
Article from: OGEL 3 (2023), in Coal & Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
Summary
The subsurface storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in offshore geologic formations has the potential to offset greenhouse gas emissions in an environmentally safe, commercially viable, less controversial, with legal advantages and greater storage capacity than onshore storage of CO2. “As with onshore CO2 storage, the aim of offshore will be to inject CO2 thousands of feet below the seafloor into geologic systems, which are fluid reservoirs overlain by confining strata that have sufficient integrity and capacity to contain CO2 without impacting other sub-seafloor resources, the ocean ...