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Description
A pan-European storage atlas is needed to inform strategic decisions on how use of the subsurface can be optimized to deliver climate targets, including through Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS). CCS has a key role to play in meeting climate targets.
The European Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) provides an annual carbon dioxide injection target of 50 million tonnes capacity by 2030. Current operational plants in Europe have an annual injection capacity of around 3.54 Mtpa. To meet the NZIA target, we urgently need to scale up CCS; this means we need to identify and mature storage opportunities in Europe.
CO2GeoNet, the pan-European network on geological storage of carbon dioxide, prepared the first pan-European atlas during the CO2StoP project (2013). This atlas has been funded through a number of EU-funded projects and is currently being advanced by the Geological Service for Europe project (2022-2027) which is an initiative of EuroGeoSurveys.
The latest version of the atlas can be viewed through the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI). This atlas highlights storage opportunities and uses a Storage Readiness Level (Akhurst et al., 2021) to indicate the maturity of development for each potential storage trap. The database currently contains almost 1000 identified storage traps, along with ‘units’ and ‘formations’ where rocks are at suitable depth and could be investigated further. Under NZIA it is anticipated that more data will be released which will benefit future editions of the pan-European storage atlas.
| If your abstract is not accepted for an oral presentation, would you be interested in presenting it as a poster instead? | Yes |
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