Natural Gas with CCS: CO2 pipelines and storage (site availability & development)

Context

CCS projects require a way to connect their captured CO2 to a suitable storage sink. While some power plants are located near an appropriate underground formation for permanent sequestration, many will require pipelines to transport the CO2. This is particularly relevant for existing natural gas plants interested in retrofitting their facilities with CCS that may be hundreds of miles from the nearest viable storage site. The development of shared infrastructure "hubs" may allow multiple emitters to share the cost of a single large pipeline to a central storage location.

Areas for Geologic CO2-Storage by the Great Plains Institute (GPI)

A significant amount of subsurface data to identify suitable CO2 storage locations is privately held and not accessible by the public or independent developers. This lack of available information may slow down the initial screening of potential project sites, and existing public subsurface data is often disconnected from other critical siting factors such as proximity to fiber networks, transmission lines, and major population centers. Developers have shared the need for data that overlays geological suitability with market data to identify the most viable locations for co-locating natural gas plants with data centers and CCS storage.

• Natural Gas with CCS: CO2 pipelines and storage (permitting & permit timelines)

• IEA Maps of CO2 sources and potential geological storage