DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0984.2001.008003149.x

Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide

John Bradshaw¹ and Peter Cook²

¹John Bradshaw is Project Manager of Project 1 (Regional Analysis) in the GEODISC research project at the Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Centre. He has a B.Sc. (Honours) and Ph.D. in Applied Geology from the University of New South Wales. John is an exploration technologist, with a regional knowledge of Australian sedimentary basins, and is employed as a Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Geological Survey Organisation. He has also worked for Esso (Australia) and on staff exchange for a year with WMC Petroleum and Ampolex/Mobil. He has extensive fieldwork experience throughout central Australia and Papua New Guinea, where he consulted for several years. John has previously run major industry-funded research projects examining the petroleum systems of Australia. He is a member of GSA, PESA, and AAPG.

²Peter Cook is currently Executive Director of the Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Centre (APCRC) and a director of various companies. Previous positions include Senior Research Fellow (Australian National University), Division Chief-Associate Director (Australian Geological Survey), and Director of the British Geological Survey (1990–1998). It was during his time as Director of BGS that he became interested in the issue of geological sequestration of CO₂, and on his return to Australia he established the GEODISC program of the APCRC. He has acted as an adviser to government organizations and companies in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, and he has held academic positions in Australia, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Peter Cook holds degrees in geology from the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States. His research career has included studies of the sedimentology, geochemistry, and economic geology of ancient and modern environments in both inland and coastal parts of Australia and the evolution of Australia over the past 500 million years. He was leader of a major UNESCO program on phosphate deposits, was involved in various international marine programs, and for a number of years has been chairman of a major program of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. In recent years he has been involved in examining the role of the earth sciences in global environmental and ocean issues, including CO₂ sequestration, in sustaining the global resource base and in energy issues. He is the author or coauthor of many books and research papers. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and a member of the AAPG, the Geological Society of London, and the Geological Society of Australia.