CO2 Capture and Sequestration

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CO2CRC Otway Project overview

An innovative, world-leading project is underway in south-western Victoria to demonstrate that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a technically and environmentally safe way to make deep cuts into Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The CO2CRC Otway Project is the country’s first demonstration of the deep geological storage or geosequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most common greenhouse gas. The project provides technical information on geosequestration processes, technologies and monitoring and verification regimes that will


help inform public policy and industry decision-makers while also providing assurance to the community.

The project is of global significance because:

it is the world’s largest research and geosequestration demonstration project; about 100,000 tonnes of CO2 will be injected and stored deep underground; and
it includes an outstanding monitoring program, which international and national scientists believe to be the most comprehensive of its type in the world.
Lessons learned from the project, particularly from the comprehensive monitoring program, will be adopted by other geosequestration projects around the world.

http://www.co2crc.com.au/otway/