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Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions
Volume 54 (2004)

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: The Gulf Coast Carbon Center: Carbon Sequestration Opportunities in Geologic Formations

 

Kim, Eugene M.1, Hovorka, Susan D.1, and Holtz, Mark H.1

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For the next several decades, during the transition to a hydrogen-based economy, fossil fuels will be the dominant source of global energy. Part of sustaining a fossil-fuel-based economy is to consider options to mitigate the environmental impacts of greenhouse gas emissions by sequestration efforts as well as sustain production in areas of declining reserves. Geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide, a major form of greenhouse gas, is an important step toward this energy future. The Gulf Coast provides a world-class site for the implementation of geologic sequestration because of the unique combination of knowledge, geology, infrastructure and government. Opportunities for enhanced oil and gas recovery could not only serve as sites for carbon sequestration, but also could offset the cost of implementing sequestration thus making it economically viable. While the need or mechanisms for developing a carbon-constrained world is still an evolving public policy issue, research into the options is needed now because the Gulf Coast Region could be negatively impacted by attempts to reduce carbon emissions due to the substantial economic links to the chemical, refinery and electric power industries. To address these issues, the Gulf Coast Carbon Center, at the Bureau of Economic Geology, was formed as an industrial associates program. Major current accomplishments include characterizing the Gulf Coast region in terms of: (1) major anthropogenic CO2 sources and (2) geologic formations.

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