For two decades, the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) has been investigating the state’s subsurface geology and industrial infrastructure to determine the safety and viability of injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial sources into underground rock formations for long-term storage and hard to recover hard-to-reach oil.
Now, as part of an initiative to share data and advance research on the process, the KGS is partnering with fifteen other state and federal entities from throughout the central and western US.
The Carbon Utilisation and Storage Partnership (CUSP) is led by the Petroleum Recovery Research Centre (PRRC) at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, which was awarded $6.24m by the US Department of Energy for the project.
“Nationwide, CCUS is moving ahead. There are multiple large-scale commercial project announcements, and the portfolio is growing,” said Eugene Holubnyak, Petroleum Engineer at KGS.
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