The ‘South African Carbon Dioxide Storage Atlas’ received a R2-million boost to use existing geological information to identify potential sites for future CO2 storage.
Backed by companies like Sasol, Eskom, and PetroSA, researchers will use existing geological information to identify potential sites for possible storage. The Council for Geoscience and the Petroleum Agency South Africa plan to publish the initial assessment of storage potential by April 2010.
The next step in the process will be to create a Center for Carbon Capture and Storage which is set to happen early next year.
The atlas will illustrate the distribution and ranking of potential geological CO2 storage reservoirs in South Africa, including estimated CO2 storage capacities, the main emission sources, location of industrial hubs, transportation pipelines, and other factors that may have a bearing on storage feasibility.