ATLAS-V-2015.pdf
It’s hard to overstate the value and importance of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Carbon Storage Atlas as an enterprise. This fifth edition is the culmination of a decade of work led by National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) scientists and engineers with their partners to provide a new scientific and technical foundation to the important work of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS)—deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through geological carbon storage. Since large, permeable, porous rock volumes are required for the indefinite safe and secure storage of CO2, there is no CCUS without geological storage. In this, viable storage targets and their associated rock volumes are like any other natural resource—and as such, must be mapped and quantified to provide decision makers with sufficient understanding. The Carbon Storage Atlas series began as an attempt to do several things: • Provide information to many stakeholders about what CCUS is and how it works. • Provide information to decision makers about the CO2 storage resources in their states and regions. • Establish methodologies for estimating CO2 storage resources, as well as pathways to improve those assessments. This required a profound integration of information from private and public stakeholders, much of which was done through the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships. It required NETL to build a data infrastructure to support these goals, including the National Carbon Sequestration Database and Geographic Information System (NATCARB) data network, and platforms like the Energy Data eXchange (EDX) for data sharing. It required the interaction and engagement of many government agencies, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as industry, non-government organizations (NGOs), and academic participation. When the first Atlas was published in 2007, there were only two comparable studies anywhere in the world (Alberta, Canada and Australia). The first volume of the Carbon Storage Atlas had a profound effect on the CCUS community as well as in industry and government. Many people, organizations, and governments quickly understood the value of this kind of information. The Energy Policy Act amendments in 2009 specifically called out the need for carbon storage assessment by both the DOE and USGS. Importantly, the Carbon Storage Atlas series prompted similar efforts worldwide. These included early attempts to assess the geological storage potential of India, China, and South Africa (as well as more refined events afterwards), as well as partnerships between the United States, Canada, and Mexico for the generation of a North American Atlas. It helped make the case to companies and countries that the characterization for CO2 storage natural resources was a critical enterprise in a carbon-constrained world. It also led to efforts by academic and government researchers to actively improve their approaches to the assessments of CO2 storage resources, including the local characterization for project development as a necessary follow-on to the high-level characterization of the Atlas work. Throughout this work, NETL has been at the forefront of this issue leading the development of new science and technology through the generation and refinement of the Atlas series. This volume highlights some of the specific research and development (R&D) programs past and current that feed the Atlas, ranging from data aggregation and sharing to fundamental science on CO2-rock interactions. That said, NETL’s decade-long stewardship of this mission and technical leadership of the effort has also generated important work around the country on this topic, and has fed a national and international enterprise catalyzing important technical and political developments. As a proponent and practitioner of CCUS as an important option for carbon management, I thank NETL and all their partners for the excellent work on this volume and earlier volumes. Future generations of scientists, investors, policy makers, and operators will look back on this series and understand its indispensable role in creating a low carbon future. Dr. S. Julio Friedmann Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Fossil Energy U.S. Department of Energy
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