EU GeoCapacity

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Project no. SES6-518318

EU GeoCapacity
Assessing European Capacity for
Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide
Instrument type: Specific Targeted Project
Priority name: Sustainable Energy Systems

Publishable Final Activity Report

Period covered: from 1/01/2006 to 31/12/2008

Date of preparation:

Start date of project: 1/01/2006

Duration: 36 months

Project co-ordinator name: Thomas Vangkilde-Pedersen
Project co-ordinator organisation name: De Nationale Geologiske Undersøgelser for Danmark og Grønland (GEUS)
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Contents
Introduction

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Project description

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The GeoCapacity project consortium ............................................................................... 6
Organisation..................................................................................................................... 6
Work package structure ................................................................................................... 8
Work Package 1: Inventory of emissions and infrastructure, GIS ............................... 9Work Package 2: Storage capacity ............................................................................. 9Work Package 3: Economic uses of CO2 .................................................................. 10
Work Package 4: Standards and site selection criteria ............................................. 10
Work Package 5: Economic evaluations ................................................................... 10
Work Package 6: International Cooperation.............................................................. 10
Work Package 7: Project Management and Reporting.............................................. 10
WP 1 Inventories and GIS

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WP 1.1 CO2 Emission Inventory .................................................................................... 11
WP 1.2 Project GIS ........................................................................................................ 11
WP 1.3 Maps of Emissions and Storage Sites ............................................................... 12
Deliverables ...................................................................................................................18
WP 2 Storage Capacity

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Work package 2.1-2.4 .................................................................................................... 19
Deliverables ...................................................................................................................20
WP 3 Economic Uses of CO2

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WP 3.1 Storage Capacity in Hydrocarbon Fields ........................................................... 22
WP 3.2 Storage Capacity in Coal Beds.......................................................................... 23
Deliverables ...................................................................................................................24
WP 4 Standards and Site Selection Criteria

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WP 4.1 Site Selection Criteria ........................................................................................ 25
WP 4.2 Storage Capacity Standards.............................................................................. 25
Deliverables ...................................................................................................................26
WP 5 Economic Evaluations

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WP 5.1 DSS Development............................................................................................. 27
WP 5.2 Economic Evaluations ....................................................................................... 28
Deliverables ...................................................................................................................28
WP 6 International Co-operation

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WP 6.1 Initiation of Technology Transfer in China ......................................................... 29
WP 6.2 Framework for International Co-operation ......................................................... 30
Deliverables ...................................................................................................................31
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WP 7 Project Management and Reporting

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WP 7.1 Overall Project Management ............................................................................. 32
WP 7.2 Reporting........................................................................................................... 33
Reporting to the EU................................................................................................... 33
Website ..................................................................................................................... 33
Reporting................................................................................................................... 33
WP1...................................................................................................................... 34
WP2...................................................................................................................... 34
WP3...................................................................................................................... 34
WP4...................................................................................................................... 34
WP5...................................................................................................................... 35
WP6...................................................................................................................... 35
WP7...................................................................................................................... 35
Use and dissemination of knowledge

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Conclusion

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Introduction
EU GeoCapacity is an acronym for Assessing European Capacity for Geological Storage ofCarbon Dioxide. The GeoCapacity project is a 3 year project and started on January 1st
2006 and ended on December 31st 2008.
This report is the Publishable Final Activity Report of the EU GeoCapacity project. The
study has been carried out by 26 partners in 21 countries and a large number of individuals
in the many involved organisations have contributed to the project. Furthermore a large
number of institutions and organisations outside the project consortium have contributedwith data to the project.
The project is co-funded by the EU within FP6 - the 6th Framework Programme of theEuropean Community for Research, Technological Development and demonstration activities, contributing to the creation of the European Research Area and to innovation (2002 to2006). The total budget is 3,5 million Euro and the contribution from the European Commission amounts to 1,9 million Euro.
A website has been established that contains available public information. The website
address is www.geocapacity.eu and will be updated until the end of 2009 and accessible
until the end of 2018.

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Project description
The main objective of the project is to assess the European capacity for geological storageof CO2. The project includes full assessment of a number countries not covered before, andupdates of previously covered territory, see Table 1 and Figure 1. Other priorities havebeen the further development of innovative methods for capacity assessment, economic
modelling and site selection criteria. Finally, an important mission has been to initiate scientific collaboration with China and other CSLF members.
The GeoCapacity project comprises most European sedimentary basins suitable for geological storage of CO2 and located within the EU member states. The detailed objectives ofthe project are:
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Full assessment of countries not previously covered
Update of GESTCO and CASTOR countries
Inventory of major CO2 emission point sources and infrastructure
Assessment of regional and local potential for geological storage of CO2 in:o deep saline aquifers
o hydrocarbon fields (incl. EOR/EGR)o coal fields (incl. ECBM)
Technical site selection criteria and methodology for ranking
Contribution to guidelines for assessment of geological storage capacity
Analysis of source – transport – sink scenarios and economical evaluations
Further development of mapping and analysis methodologies (GIS/DSS)Collaboration with China and other CSLF countries e.g. India and Russia

Table 1:

Type of capacity assessment in the participating countries.

CountryType of Capacity
Assessment

Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Estonia
Hungary
Italy
LatviaLithuania
PolandRomania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain

Albania
Macedonia (FYROM)

Germany
Denmark
United Kingdom

Bosnia-Hercegovina
FranceLuxemburg
GreeceThe Netherlands

Full Country Evaluation

Neighbour Country Review

Country Update

International Cooperation

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China
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Overview of participating countries.

The GeoCapacity project consortium
The GeoCapacity project consortium includes 26 partners – geological surveys and a rangeof other research partners throughout Europe – and has been in a unique position to carryout this R&D study (see Table 2). The surveys and other state institutes have over decades, and in some instances for more than a century, studied and mapped the distribution
and composition of hard rocks and sediments in the subsurface. The project partners thus
have access to large amounts of accumulated knowledge of the subsurface geology ofEurope obtained from work with mineral exploitation, geothermal studies, hydrocarbon activities such as seismic mapping and drilling for oil. The variety of maps, other data andprevious work have made it possible for the project partners to produce reasonable evaluations of the CO2 storage capacity of the selected representative study areas.

Organisation
The organisational structure of the project is depicted in the diagram in Figure 2. Steeringcommittee meetings have been held twice per year together with general work meetings.
The Coordinator the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS have overseen
all activities and made working relationships and agreements with all of the other partners.
GEUS have also led the work with assessment of geological storage capacity and the workon capacity standards and site selection criteria.
The British Geological Survey, BGS have led all work relating to GIS and Institute Francais
du Petrole, IFP the work with evaluations of storage potential in hydrocarbon and coal
fields. The Geological Survey of the Netherlands, TNO have led the development of DSS

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and the economic work and Bureau de Recherce de Geologie et Miniere, BRGM the international cooperation.
An End-User Advisory Group - comprising potential end-users has followed the work andhad access to work meetings and website.
Table 2:

Partners in the GeoCapacity project consortium.

Partic.
Role *

Partic.
Number

CO

1

CR
CR
CR
CR

2
3
4
5

Participant
Name

Participant
Short nameCountry

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

GEUS

Denmark

University of Sofia
US
Bulgaria
University of Zagreb
RGN
Croatia
Czech Geological Survey
CGS
Czech Republic
Institute of Geology at Tallinn University of Tech- IGTUT
Estonia
nologyCR
6Bureau de Recherce de Geologie et Miniere
BRGM
FranceCR
7
Institute Francaise du Petrole
IFP
FranceCR
8
Bundesanstalt für Geologie und Rohstoffen
BGR
GermanyCR
9
Institute for Geology and Mining Engineering
IGME
GreeceCR
10
Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Institute of Hungary
ELGI
HungaryCR
11
Isituto Nazionale Oceanografie e Geofisica OGS
Italy
SperimentaleCR
12
Latvian Environment, Geology & Meteorology LEGMA
LatviaAgencyCR
13
Institute of Geology and Geography
IGG
LithuaniaCR
14
Geological Survey of the Netherlands
TNO-NITG
Netherlands
CR
15
EcofysEcofysNetherlands
CR
16
Academy of Science (MEERI)MEERIPolandCR
17
Geophysical Exploration Company
PBG
PolandCR
18
GeoEcoMar
GeoEcoMar
Romania
Dionyz Stur State Geological Institute
CR
19
SGUDS
Slovakia
CR
20
GEOINZENIRING
GEO-INZ
Slovenia
CR
21
Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana
IGME
Spain
CR
22
British Geological Survey
BGS
UK
CR
23
EniTecnologie (Industry Partner)
ENI
Italy
CR
24
ENDESA Generacion (Industry Partner)
EndesaSpain
CR
25
Vattenfall Utveckling AB (Industry Partner)
VUAB
SwedenCS
26
Tsinghau University
TU
P. R. CHINA* CO = Co-ordinator, CR = Contractor, CS = Contractor; partnership built through the CSLF

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GeoCapacity Project Organisational Structure

Steering
SteeringCommittee
Committee
One representative from each partner
One representative from each partner
The SC meets twice per year
The SC meets twice per year

EndEnd-User Advisory Group

Project
ProjectManagement
Management
GEUS
GEUS

assisted by 2 WP leaders
assisted by 2 WP leaders
and a financial officer
and a financial officer

WP 7
WP 7
GEUS leader
GEUS leader
WP 1
WP 1
BGS leader
BGS leader
WP 2
WP 2
GEUS leader
GEUS leader
WP 3
WP 3
IFP leader
IFP leader

Figure 2:

WP 6
WP 6
BRGM leader
BRGM leader

WP 4
WP 4
GEUS leader
GEUS leader

WP 5
WP 5
TNO leader
TNO leader

Organisational structure of the GeoCapacity project.

Work package structure
The focus of the GeoCapacity project is GIS mapping of CO2 point sources, infrastructureand geological storage in Europe. The main objective is to assess the European capacity
for geological storage of CO2 in deep saline aquifers, oil and gas structures and coal beds.
Other priorities are further development of methods for capacity assessment, economic
modelling and site selection as well as international cooperation, especially with China. The
results of GeoCapacity include 26 countries and comprise most European sedimentarybasins suitable for geological storage of CO2.
The Work in GeoCapacity has been structured in 7 work packages (see also Figure 3):
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WP1: Inventory of emissions and infrastructure, GIS
WP2: Storage capacity
WP3: Economic use of CO2
WP4: Standards and site selection criteria
WP5: Economic evaluations
WP6: International cooperation
WP7: Project management and reporting

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Work package structure
Work
Work Package
Package 11

Work
Work Package
Package 22

Work
Work Package
Package 33

Work
Work Package
Package 44

Work
Work Package
Package 55

Work
Work Package
Package 66

Work
Work Package
Package 77

Inventories
InventoriesAnd
And GIS
GIS

Storage
Storage Capacity
Capacity

Economic
Economic uses
uses
of
of CO
CO22

Standards
Standards && SiteSite
Selection
Selection Criteria
Criteria

Economic
Economic
Evaluations
Evaluations

International
International
Cooporation
Cooporation

Pr.
Pr. Management
Management
andand Reporting
Reporting

Lead:
Lead: GEUS
GEUS

Lead:
Lead: IFP
IFP

Lead:
Lead: GEUS
GEUS

Lead:
Lead: TNO
TNO

Lead:
Lead: BRGM
BRGM

Lead:
Lead: GEUS
GEUS

WP
WP 3.1
3.1

WP
WP 4.1
4.1

WP
WP 5.1
5.1

WP
WP 6.1
6.1

WP
WP 7.1
7.1

DSS
DSS
development
development

Initiation
Initiation ofoftechnology
technology
transfertransfer in
in China
China

Overall
Overall projectprojectmanagement
management

Lead:
Lead: BGS
BGS
WP
WP 1.1
1.1
COEmission
CO22 Emission
Inventory
Inventory
Point
Point sources
sources
Pipelines
Pipelines
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
LicenseLicense areas
areas
Lead:
Lead:
BGS
BGS
WP
WP 1.2
1.2

WP
WP 2.1
2.1

WP
WP 2.22.2

WP
WP 2.3
2.3

North
North
East
East
Group
Group

CentralCentral
East
East
Group
Group

South
South
Group
Group

Storage
Storage capacity
capacity
inin hydrocarbonhydrocarbon
fieldsfieldsSite
Site
selection
selection
criteria
criteria

Estonia
Estonia
LatviaLatviaLithuania
Lithuania
PolandPolandCzech
Czech RR
Slovakia
Slovakia

Romania
Romania
Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Hungary
Hungary(Albania)(Albania)(FYROM)(FYROM)

Spain
Spain
Italy
Italy
Slovenia
Slovenia
Croatia
Croatia

Basis
Basis site
site
selection
selection criteria
criteria
Methodology
Methodology
forfor ranking
ranking

Lead:
Lead:
SGUDS
SGUDS

Lead:
Lead:
ELGI
ELGI

Lead:
Lead:
U.Zagreb
U.Zagreb

Assessment
Assessment ofof
EOR
EOR potential
potential
Calculationof
Calculation ofstoragestorage capacity
capacity
Modelling
Modelling ofof EOR
EOR
Input
to
Input to DSS
DSS
andand GIS
GIS
Lead:
Lead:
IFP
IFP

WP
WP 4.2
4.2

Project
Project GIS
GIS
Data
Data format
formatSpecification
Specification
Building
Building GIS
GISWebWeb GIS
GIS
Lead:
Lead:
BGS,
BGS, GEUS
GEUS
WP
WP 1.3
1.3
Maps
Maps ofofemissionsemissions andandstoragestorage sites
sites
Lead:
Lead:
GEUS,
GEUS, BGS
BGS

Regional
Regional potential
potential assessments
assessments

WP
WP 3.2
3.2

GeologicalGeological information
information ofof sites
sites

Storage
Storage capacity
capacityinin coalcoal beds
beds

Calculations
Calculations ofof storage
storage capacity
capacity
Input
Input andand formatting
formatting ofof datadata
WP
WP 2.4
2.4CountryCountry updates
updates forfor
GESTCOGESTCO countries
countries

Assessment
Assessment ofof
ECBM
ECBM potential
potential
Calculation
Calculation ofofstoragestorage capacity
capacity
Input
Input toto DSSDSS
andand GIS
GIS
Lead:
Lead:
PBG
PBG

Lead:
Lead:
BGS
BGS

Storage
Storage
capacity
capacity
standards
standards

Feedback
Feedback fromfromDSS
DSS users
users
Detailed
Detailed
instructions
instructions
Collection
Collection ofof
economic
economic data
data
SystemSystemdevelopment
development

Training
Training ofof Chinese
Chineseexpertsexperts incl.
incl. GIS
GIS
CollectionofCollection of data
data
andand addition
addition to
to GISGIS
DSS,
DSS, economics
economics
Evaluation
Evaluation andanddissemination
dissemination

Lead:
Lead:
TNO
TNO

Lead:
Lead:
BRGM
BRGM

WP
WP 5.2
5.2

WP
WP 6.2
6.2

Economic
Economic
evaluations
evaluations

Framework
Framework for
forinternational
international
coorporation
coorporation

Methodology
Methodology
forfor calculating
calculatingstoragestorage capacity
capacity
Application
Application ofofstandards
standards to
to
test
area
test area

Economic
Economic
evaluations
evaluations inin
the
the new
new member
membercountries
countries

Lead:
Lead:
GEUS
GEUS

Lead:
Lead:
EcofysEcofysCommunication
Communication
withwith CSLF
CSLF
Framework
Framework forforcooperationcooperation withwith
India,
Russiaetc.
India, Russia etc.
Lead:
Lead:
BRGM
BRGM

Lead:
Lead:
GEUS,
GEUS, CGS,
CGS,
ELGI,
ELGI, SGUDS
SGUDS
WP
WP 7.2
7.2
Reporting
Reporting toto EUEUReporting
Reporting toto EUEUWebsiteWebsiteReportingto
CSLF
Reporting to CSLF
InterimInterim and
and
final
final reportreport
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Final reportreport CD
CD
Contribute
Contribute totoconference
papersconference papers
Lead:
Lead:
GEUS,
GEUS, CGS,
CGS,
OGS,
OGS, U.Sofia
U.Sofia

Lead:
Lead:
BGR
BGR

Figure 3:

Project
Project planningplanning
OrganiseOrganise projectproject
meetings
meetings
Chairmanagement
Chair management
board
board
CreateCreate andand inform
informadvisory
advisory board
boardManagement
Management ofof
non-personnel
non-personnel
budgetbudgetWork package structure of the GeoCapacity project.

Work Package 1: Inventory of emissions and infrastructure, GIS
The scope of WP1 is collation of point source CO2 emissions greater than 100,000 tonnes
per year in all of the territories involved in the project (limited to a test area in China). Emission data and information regarding plant characteristics, pipelines and other infrastructure
are entered into a project dedicated Geographical Information System (GIS) and the construction of the GIS is also part of this WP. The use of data for China will be regulated byrelevant Chinese procedures.

Work Package 2: Storage capacity
This is the main WP dealing with assessment of CO2 storage potential, in all of the involved
European countries, with a particular emphasis on the countries not previously covered.
Emphasis is on aquifer capacity as hydrocarbon fields and coal beds are covered in WP3.
Capacity estimates are made on a national/regional basis as well as on a more detailed
level in two case studies for each country. The work is coordinated in three regional groups
and a fourth group of updating countries previously part of the GESTCO project.

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Work Package 3: Economic uses of CO2
As a supplement to the aquifer capacity work of WP2, an assessment is made of the potential for use and storage of CO2 in hydrocarbon structures combined with CO2 EOR and indeep coal beds combined with ECBM. The main emphasis is on storage capacity, while
simultaneously looking for early opportunities for CO2 activities with better economies thanbasic storage.

Work Package 4: Standards and site selection criteria
This key activity comprises two important issues. One is defining the technical criteria for
selection of suitable and safe sites for long term storage of CO2 for a wide range of geological conditions. The other, also of wide reaching importance, is to improve methodologies for assessment of geological storage capacity, thus providing a set of standards forthis and future projects. Part of the work is carried out in synergy with the CSLF Task Forcefor Review and Identification of Standards for CO2 Storage Capacity Estimation.

Work Package 5: Economic evaluations
The main effort is on improving the Decision Support System software, making it capable ofmore complex assessments while also making it much more user-friendly. This economic
evaluation tool – combined with the GIS – already constitutes the most advanced tool of its
kind and is further improved in the project. Finally, it is used for economic evaluation of themany national source-transport-storage scenarios resulting from the case studies in WP2.

Work Package 6: International Cooperation
The work is defined specifically to strengthen collaboration between the EU and the CSLF.
Activities focus on technology transfer to China and initiation of cooperation with India andRussia. A Chinese part of the GIS database is established.

Work Package 7: Project Management and Reporting
The scope is planning and execution of project activities and facilitation of partner collaboration. Effort is also dedicated to liaison with the project industry partners and the End-User
Advisory Group. Reporting to the EU is co-ordinated from this WP, as well as early creationof a project website.

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WP 1 Inventories and GISWork package 1 includes the following sub work packages:•••

WP 1.1 with the purpose of establishing an inventory of CO2 point sources withemissions above 0.1 Mt/year as well as infrastructure such as pipelines and urban
centres.
WP 1.2 with the purpose of building a GIS system including guidelines and specification of format for data input from partners.
WP 1.3 with the purpose of producing regional maps of emissions and storage sites
to help enable the process of source and sink matching.

The results of WP 1 are described in detail in technical reports and in the public report D8
WP 1 Report, Inventories and GIS.

WP 1.1 CO2 Emission Inventory
Data specification and database templates were sent out to all partners for population. All
CO2 source data was collated by each partner country and entered into the database templates.
The base map data within the project includes country boundaries, major urban areas,lakes, rivers, roads and railways. For China province boundaries are also included.
The CO2 emission source database includes data from sources with emissions of 0.1 Mt of
CO2 per year and above and contains information on the location as well as emissions andtechnical details such as full load hours, capacity, emission factor, technology and fuel typeetc. In Table 3 in the chapter on WP2 is given the CO2 emissions in the database by country.
The location of existing pipelines and pipeline terminals which could represent potential
routes for new pipelines and easy access on and offshore for those pipelines is also included in the GIS.

WP 1.2 Project GIS
The Geocapacities GIS has been developed using ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.2 software and allavailable project data is accessible via the GIS either as viewable data or through links
from the GIS to external files. The data specification and format was developed and produced by BGS based on lessons learned from the GESTCO project. The database templates were developed in Microsoft Access 2003 and included forms designed to guide theuser through the data input procedure.

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New databases were designed for use for the DSS which are to be supplied to TNO who
are developing the module. These new databases include additional data that is requiredfor calculations within the DSS, for example, standard deviation values in addition to theoriginal average values that have been supplied. The original data provided by partners
was uploaded to these new databases and the databases were returned to partners with arequest for any additional data that they could enter into the new attribute fields within the
databases.
Line and polygon datasets were also collected and complied into merged datasets to cover
the project area. These included polygons indicating the extent of the sinks and a pipeline
dataset.
The GIS allows users to simultaneously view one or more layers of data including the location of the CO2 sources and potential CO2 sinks. These individual layers can be turned on
and off and zoomed in or out to depending on what the user specifically wants to show orview. It also enables the user to perform extensive onscreen analysis on all the available
data. Geoscience datasets included in the GIS comprise:
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CO2 sources locations
potential aquifer storage sites
potential aquifer injection points
hydrocarbon field locationshydrocarbon field injection points
coal fields
potential coal field injection points
existing pipelines and pipeline terminals
natural sources of CO2

WP 1.3 Maps of Emissions and Storage Sites
Maps of emissions and storage sites to help source-sink matching have been developed
and produced by GEUS based on the final GIS database provided by BGS. Detailed maps
for each country have been produced as well as five regional maps:
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Northwest Europe
Northeast Europe
Central East Europe
Southwest Europe
Southeast Europe

The regional maps are shown in Figure 4 to Figure 8 below.

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Map of CO2 emissions, infrastructure and storage capacity in Northwest
Europe.

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Map of CO2 emissions, infrastructure and storage capacity in Northeast
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Map of CO2 emissions, infrastructure and storage capacity in Central-East
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Map of CO2 emissions, infrastructure and storage capacity in Southwest
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Map of CO2 emissions, infrastructure and storage capacity in Southeast
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Deliverables
A total of nine deliverables were included in WP 1:
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D1 Data Specification
D2 Questionnaire
D3 Inventory of point sources
D4 Infrastructure data
D5 Project GIS
D6 Web enabled GIS
D7 Sink source maps
D8 WP 1 Report
D9 GIS user manual

The deliverables D1, D2, and D9 are technical reports only available for the partners of the
project consortium. D2 is described in the D1 report. The deliverables D3, D4 are data input
to the GIS and D5 and D6 is the project GIS itself and a web enabled GIS and also only
available to the consortium. Deliverables D7 and D8 are a collection of maps and a summary report of the work carried out in the work package, respectively and publicly available
from the project website: www.geocapacity.eu.

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WP 2 Storage Capacity
In work package 2 the participating countries have been divided into three geographicalgroups facilitating regional cooperation. The groups comprise new countries and countries
previously participating in the CASTOR project and work initiated in CASTOR has been
continued and further detailed in GeoCapacity. A fourth group consists of countries previously part of the GESTCO project and they have been updating, supplementing and detailing their country profiles in the GeoCapacity project. Thus work package 2 includes thefollowing sub work packages:••••

WP 2.1 covering Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Czech Republic.
WP 2.2 covering Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania and FYROM (both covered by Greece).
WP 2.3 covering Croatia, Spain, Italy, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (coveredby Croatia).
WP 2.4 covering Germany (also including Luxemburg), The Netherlands, France,
Greece, United Kingdom and Denmark.

The results of WP 2 are described in detail in technical reports and in the public report D16
WP 2 Report, Storage Capacity.

Work package 2.1-2.4
Work package 2.1-2.4 all include regional assessment and calculation of potential CO2
storage in saline aquifers, hydrocarbon fields and coal beds as well as input of geologicalinformation to the GIS database. All new and previous CASTOR countries in the first threegeographical groups have carried out the following tasks in WP2:
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Performed a regional screening for potential CO2 storage sites/storage possibilities
in saline aquifers, hydrocarbon fields and coal beds etc.
Provided geological information from the potential storage sites.
Calculated the regional storage capacity for each country using the methodology
agreed in WP4.
Provided the data requested in WP1 for the GIS database in the specified project
format.
Described two case studies in terms of more detailed information of the storagesites and the capture - storage scenarios for economic modelling in WP5.

The fourth group of previous GESTCO partners have updated their country profiles andprovided updated and new capacity estimates and data for the GIS.
The resulting GeoCapacity GIS database include a total storage capacity of 360 Gt with
326 Gt in deep saline aquifers, 32 Gt in depleted hydrocarbon fields and 2 Gt in unmineable coal beds. 116 Gt is onshore storage capacity and 244 Gt is offshore storage capacity.
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Publishable Final Activity Reportlarge part is in regional deep saline aquifers without identification of specific trap structures.
Almost 200 Gt of the total storage capacity in the database is located offshore Norway andthese estimates are dating back to the GESTCO project in 2003 and have not been updated in the GeoCapacity project.
The GeoCapacity GIS is a comprehensive database of European storage capacity, but it
does not necessarily represent all available storage capacity in each country. It rather
represents the extent of work and level of detail which has been possible within the available economic frame of the project. On the other hand, not all storage capacity in the database may necessarily be equally exploitable. As a supplement to the capacity estimates inthe database more cautious and conservative estimates for each country have therefore
been provided. Thus, in the summary of European storage capacity given in Table 3 below
are used only the conservative estimates as they probably give the most realistic picture ofstorage capacity that can be realized in Europe. For Norway and Belgium which were not
updated as part of the GeoCapacity project the conservative estimates has been estimatedfrom the GESTCO values included in the database using the same ratio between databaseand conservative estimates as for Denmark.
The sum of the conservative storage capacity estimates in Table 3 is 96 Gt CO2 in deep
saline aquifers, 20 Gt in depleted hydrocarbon fields and 1 Gt in unmineable coal beds.
This totals 117 Gt CO2 of conservative European storage capacity of which approx. 25 % isoffshore Norway in mainly deep saline aquifers. These figures must be compared to a totalof 1,9 Gt of CO2 emissions from large point sources emitting more than 0.1 Mt/year. Thus
the conservative storage capacity estimate of 117 Gt CO2 corresponds to 62 years of storage of the 1,9 Mt yearly emissions of CO2 from large point sources emitting more than 0.1
Mt/year.

Deliverables
A total of seven deliverables were included in WP 2:
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•
•
•
•
•
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D10 Maps of regional storage potential
D11 Geological information of storage sites
D12 Storage capacities
D13 Data for project GIS
D14 Case Study Scenarios
D15 Country Updates
D16 WP 2 Report

Deliverable D10 is a collection of maps of very preliminary regional storage capacity anddeliverable D11, D12, D13 and D15 are data input to the GIS. D11 and D12 have furthermore been produced as a combined technical report on saline aquifers as well as D14 is
produced as a technical report on the case studies. All deliverables are only available to theconsortium except deliverable D16 which is the summary report of the work carried out inthe work package and which is publicly available from the project website:www.geocapacity.eu.
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European summary of CO2 emissions and storage capacity estimates.

Country

Annual total
emissionsof CO2(Mt)

Annual CO2
emissionsfrom large
point sources

CO2 storage
capacity indeep saline
aquifers

CO2 storage
capacity inhydrocarbon
fields

(Mt)

(Mt)

(Mt)

CO2 storage
capacity incoal fields(Mt)

Slovakia

46

23

1716

-

-

Estonia

21

12

-

-

-

Latvia

4

2

404

-

-

Lithuania

18

6

30

7

-

Poland

325

188

1761

764

415

Czech Republic

128

78

766

33

54

Hungary

79

23

140

389

87

Romania

74

67

7500

1500

-

Bulgaria

52

42

2100

3

17

Albania

0

0

20

111

-

FYROM

6

4

390

-

-

Croatia

23

5

2710

189

-

Spain

423

158

14000

34

145

Italy

212

140

4669

1810

71

Slovenia

20

7

92

2

-

Bosnia-Herzegovina

-

9

197

-

-

Germany

864

465

14900

2180

-

Luxemburg

-

-

-

-

-

The Netherlands

180

92

340

1700

300

France

-

131

7922

770

-

Greece

110

69

184

70

-

United Kingdom

555

258

7100

7300

-

Denmark

52

28

2553

203

-

Norway

-

28

26031

3157

-

Belgium

-

58

199

-

-

Total

-

1893

95724

20222

1089

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WP 3 Economic Uses of CO2
Work package 3 includes the following sub work packages:••

WP 3.1 with the purpose of assessing the CO2 storage capacity in hydrocarbon
fields and the potential for enhanced oil and gas recovery (EOR/EGR) as well as
modelling of EOR in few chosen fields.
WP 3.2 with the purpose of assessing the CO2 storage capacity in unmineable coalbeds and the potential for enhanced coal bed methane production (ECBM).

The results of WP 3 are described in detail in technical reports and in the public report D22
WP 3 Report, Economic uses of CO2.

WP 3.1 Storage Capacity in Hydrocarbon Fields
The work in WP3.1 have included geological descriptions of the hydrocarbon fields in eachcountry and assessment of their possible use and capacity for CO2 storage as well as collation and input of data on hydrocarbon field storage to the GIS database.
The CO2 storage capacity in hydrocarbon fields in the GeoCapacity database are calculated using either the methodology described by the Capacity estimation task force of the
CSLF or the simplified formula from the GESTCO project. Both are described in more detailin technical reports of WP3 and WP4 and in the public reports D22 WP3 Report, Economic
uses of CO2 and D26 WP4 Report, Capacity standards and site selection criteria.
The methodology used for hydrocarbon fields yield theoretical storage capacity according
to the methodology described by the CSLF. To reach effective storage capacity CSLF introduce a number of capacity coefficients representing mobility, buoyancy, heterogeneity, water saturation and aquifer strength, respectively and all reducing the storage capacity. However, there are very few studies and methodologies for estimating the values of these capacity coefficients and hence we have chosen in GeoCapacity not to distinguish between
theoretical and effective storage capacity for hydrocarbon fields.
The storage capacity of hydrocarbon fields is given in Table 3 in the WP 2 chapter.
Also in WP3.1 IFP has developed a model for estimation of CO2 storage capacity in oil reservoirs incorporating the production of oil associated with enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
The model assumes miscible CO2 flood (secondary or tertiary) prior to CO2 storage without
oil production.
The model is based on the following steps:

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1) Miscibility Test
The model determines whether miscibility develops:- At the beginning of the CO2 storage- At the end of the CO2 storage: this pressure is usually the initial reservoir pressure at
discovery2) Oil recovery and CO2 storage calculation under miscible conditions
This step calculates oil recovery and CO2 storage in two stages:- Until the breakthrough of the CO2- After the breakthrough of the CO2, assuming that CO2 is recycled
3) CO2 storage without oil production
This step accounts for the amount of CO2 to be stored under a given pressure difference
between the initial injection pressure and the final pressure, often chosen as the initial reservoir pressure at discovery.
This overall approach should be considered as an effort to estimate the co-optimization of
CO2 storage and EOR and as such should be considered as an intermediate model between a single formula and complex modelling such as a numerical model. Single formulaexpressions either set a given storage factor (e.g. 6% for aquifers) or in oil fields considers
the replacement of oil produced by the injected CO2 without any consideration for the additional oil which could be produced by EOR. Such formulas may oversimplify the CO2 problem, but on the other hand, numerical modelling requires a rich database, making the study
too long for quick estimations. This model is a rapid estimator of the oil recovery and theCO2 storage capacity and can lead to quick parametric studies.
Using data provided by Polish, Czech and Danish partners of the project, the model wasapplied to estimate the CO2 storage capacity. Data were also received from Croatia, but for
the Croatian fields, the miscibility pressure being higher than the initial reservoir pressure,the model could not apply.

WP 3.2 Storage Capacity in Coal Beds
The work in WP3.2 have included geological descriptions of the coal fields in each country
and assessment of their possible use and capacity for CO2 storage as well as collation andinput of data on coal field storage to the GIS database.
In order to assess the CO2-ECBMR potential (Enhanced Coal-Bed Methane Recovery withthe use of CO2 storage) of un-mined coal fields, the approach and methodology alreadyapplied in the GESTCO project were employed. The methodology are described in moredetail in technical reports of WP3 and WP4 and in the public reports D22 WP3 Report,
Economic uses of CO2 and D26 WP4 Report, Capacity standards and site selection criteria.
Prospects for CO2 usage in coal fields exist in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Spainand the capacity has been assessed based on either large individual fields or smaller coalbasins. Some potential might exist in one area in Romania, but the geological conditions
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are rather unsuitable. Croatia and Slovakia have shallow and small coal fields, beyond therange of the economic use for CO2-ECBMR. Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia have no coalresources (neither hard coal, nor brown coal nor lignite). For Bulgaria, Slovenia and Italy
the assessments were made during the second part of the work package.
In the second part of the work package more detailed calculation of the amounts of CO2that could be stored in coal beds during possible future CO2-ECBMR operations was performed. Storage capacity was recalculated for smaller areas of coal fields and basins, more
likely suitable for ECBM. For two countries, Bulgaria and Italy, studies on storage capacity
for coal fields were included as data became available.
Simultaneously, analyses using the CoalSeq ECBM screening simulator by ARI were carried out. This tool makes it possible to present general CO2-ECBMR production scenarios,
particularly assessing the amount of methane production after injecting a certain amount ofcarbon dioxide. Information on coal permeabilities, coal rank, depth of coal beds in question, estimations of injection rate and spacing between injection and production wells werecollected for a number of scenarios, relevant to particular coal fields in WP3.2 countries.
After analyzing CoalSeq options it followed that the highest methane 'production' occurs
when the project area (spacing) is the smallest, i.e. when respective injection and production wells spacing are not greater than 40 m. The 'production' means a difference between
a base case (no injection) and a continuous injection timing for a period of 15 years (production due to ECBMR application only, within a given period).
It also seems from CoalSeq simulations that medium to low volatile coals might be moreinteresting from an economic point of view of CO2-ECBMR than others, provided they havesufficient reservoir properties, i.e. not a very low permeability. The simulations also suggest
rather more conservative recovery ratios for CO2-ECBMR (up to 0.4 in case of medium tolow volatile coals) than previously assumed.

Deliverables
A total of six deliverables were included in WP 3:
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•
•
•
•
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D17 Potential for CO2 use in hydrocarbon fields
D18 Potential for CO2 use in coal beds
D19 GeoCapcatiy economic use of CO2 in hydrocarbon fields
D20 GeoCapcatiy economic use of CO2 in coal beds
D21 Data inputted into GIS and DSS
D22 WP 3 Report

The deliverables D17, D18, D19 and D20 are technical reports only available for the partners of the project consortium. Deliverable D21 are data input to the GIS and also only
available to the consortium. Deliverable D22 is a summary report of the work carried out inthe work package and publicly available from the project website: www.geocapacity.eu.

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WP 4 Standards and Site Selection Criteria
Work package 4 includes the following sub work packages:••

WP 4.1 with the purpose of producing a set of basic geological criteria required
when considering sites for geological storage and developing a methodology for
ranking of sites.
WP 4.2 with the purpose of developing methodology for calculating storage capacity in different geological settings (aquifers, hydrocarbon fields and coal fields) andapplication of the standards to a test area.

The results of WP 4 are described in detail in technical reports and in the public report D26
WP 4 Report, Capacity standards and site selection criteria.

WP 4.1 Site Selection Criteria
The objective of WP4.1 was to produce a set of site selection criteria required when considering sites for geological storage and to develop a site ranking methodology based on
geological suitability for CO2 storage and on data availability and confidence. After discussion in project meetings and smaller workshops, a set of basic geological criteria wereagreed:1. Sufficient depth of reservoir to ensure that CO2 reach its supercritical dense
phase but not so deep that permeability and porosity is too low.
2. Integrity of seal to prevent CO2 migrating out of the storage site.
3. Sufficient CO2 storage capacity to hold the required volumes of CO2 from thesource e.g. lifetime emissions of a power plant.
4. Effective petrophysic reservoir properties to ensure CO2 injectivity is economically viable and that sufficient CO2 can be obtained.
These criteria were expanded on and described together with the associated geologicalparameters in a technical report and in the public D26 WP4 Report, Capacity standards
and site selection criteria.
The site selection criteria have been applied to a test case study by BGR looking at an area
near the Polish-German border with an attempt to rank the sites.

WP 4.2 Storage Capacity Standards
The objective of WP4.2 has been development of methodologies for calculating storage
capacity in different geological settings using GESTCO experience and referring to otherinternational projects (US and Australian) as well as application of the standards to a test
area. The work in WP4.2 took basis in the standards suggested and published by the CSLF
Task Force on Storage Capacity Estimation. During P1 and P2 GeoCapacity partners has
participated in developing the CSLF standards and contributed to the CSLF publications on
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this subject and GEUS has represented the EU as a member of the CSLF Task Force. Simultaneously the partners involved in WP4.2 have worked with the GeoCapacity application of the CSLF standards and further developments of methodology. The methodologies
applied and developed in GeoCapacity for CO2 storage capacity estimations in deep saline
aquifers, hydrocarbon fields and coal beds, respectively, are described in detail together
with a discussion of the background for our choices and suggestions in a technical reportand in the public report D26 WP4 Report, Capacity standards and site selection criteria.
The standards have been applied by GeoCapacity partners when estimating storage capacity ensuring quality, consistency and comparability and can be applied to other projects
and future work as well.
The issue of storage capacity calculation and especially the storage efficiency factor foraquifers has been discussed intensively at all project meetings during the lifetime of the
project and this discussion will, and should, probably go on in the future between CCS geoexperts. Nevertheless the GeoCapacity project has done a great effort for producing uniform and comparable capacity estimates. Two different approaches are suggested for open
and semi-closed and closed aquifers by GEUS and TNO, respectively and also suggestions for capacity estimation of bulk volumes of regional aquifers are included supplementary to the capacity standards suggested by the CSLF.
For capacity estimation of hydrocarbon fields an alternative model has been developed in
WP3.1 supplementary to the methodology described by the CSLF and the method applied
previously in the GESTCO project.
The capacity estimation standards have been applied to a Danish test area by GEUS andthe technical report comprises a sensitivity analysis of change in storage capacity based on
different methodology for storage capacity estimation in aquifers, hydrocarbon and coal
fields.

Deliverables
A total of four deliverables were included in WP 4:••••

D23 Site selection criteria
D24 Storage capacity standards
D25 Application of standards
D26 WP 4 Report

The deliverables D23, D24 and D25 are technical reports only available for the partners of
the project consortium. Deliverable D26 is a summary report of the work carried out in thework package and publicly available from the project website: www.geocapacity.eu.

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WP 5 Economic Evaluations
Work package 5 includes the following sub work packages:••

WP 5.1 with the purpose of improving a tool for the analysis of economic feasibilityof CCS projects.
WP 5.2 with the purpose of applying the tool to hypothetical, yet realistic, CCS projects in a number of countries.

The results of WP 5 are described in detail in technical reports and in the public report D30
WP 5 Report, DSS Report.

WP 5.1 DSS Development
The aim of this work package was to develop an economic decision support system (DSS);
a tool to support the decision making for the development of CCS projects. The economic
tool developed in the EU GESTCO project was the starting point. The GESTCO tool offered
the capability of analyzing one source of captured CO2 and one storage location. The tool
used a database of emission points and storage locations, developed in the GESTCO project, and a GIS interface to allow users to select a source and a sinks from a map. The tool
produced cost estimates of elements of the CCS project, such as capture, transport andstorage, as well as of the CCS project as a whole. The cost of each element in the CCS
chain was computed by a dedicated algorithm.
The GESTCO tool, although its results were useful, was considered too restricted in its
functionality. An improved tool was required to analyse more complex CCS projects, representing the uncertainty inherent to this kind of analysis. The economic tool developed in
WP5.1 has the following properties:---

Multi-source, multi-sink capability. This is considered essential for an up-to-date
tool, as future large-scale CCS will involve multiple sources connected through atransport network to several sinks.
Stochastic analysis of costs. Estimating the costs of a CCS project involves dealing
with uncertainties. These can arise from e.g. uncertainties in development of prices.
The Geocapacity economic tool uses a Monte Carlo approach. It handles uncertainties in any of the (many) input values and propagates these into the results, which
all are represented as a probability distribution. This explicitly shows the user theuncertainty in the economic assessment of his future CCS project, as a result of theuncertainty in the data he presently has available.
Level of detail in the analysis. The storage part of the CCS chain is often characterized by both large uncertainties and lack of data. This is especially true for aquifer
storage, where initially often relatively little data is available. The tool contains a
number of algorithms that represent the storage part of the CCS chain, that requiredifferent amounts of data. This allows the user to obtain results, even when little
data are available, and to improve the result as more data are obtained.
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The tool is implemented in Java and separated into a web-based part and an applicationthat runs on a local computer. The web-based application shows the Geocapacity emission
and storage database on a Google Maps web page. The user can construct a CCS project,selecting sources and sinks and constructing the connecting network of pipelines. The data
are then transferred to the local application, which performs the Monte Carlo analysis of
capture, compression, transport and storage. Results, such as NPV, capex, opex and unit
cost are computed and presented in the form of a probability distribution function.

WP 5.2 Economic Evaluations
In this work package, the DSS web-based tool is applied for CCS test cases in various
countries, i.e. the new countries compared to the GESTCO project. A CCS test case comprises one or more actual sources of carbon dioxide and one or more geological storage
reservoirs. The geological description of the geological reservoirs has been made by eachpartner in WP2 of the project. In order to run the DSS program and to do the economical
analysis, this information has been expanded with more in-depth geological and economical data for the storage reservoirs and technical and economical data for the selectedsources of CO2 and the applied capture, compression and transport system.
To run the DSS properly and with the most added value, it is necessary to collect as muchstatistical data on as many parameters as possible, to better estimate the uncertainty in theeconomic feasibility of the test case. Statistical data (e.g., standard deviations) can be included for almost all parameters for emission points, capture installations and storage sites.
The Geocapacity sink database is designed to contain some of this information, but somesite specific information had to be collected additionally for the test cases.
The economic tool was used to estimate the economic feasibility of capturing, transportingand storing CO2 in the CCS systems modelled. The results of these analyses should be
regarded as first, rough estimates of CCS feasibility. As such it can not yet be seen as fully
optimised CCS scenarios. The description and evaluation of the test cases were completedwith some non-technical evaluations and identifying gaps in knowledge.

Deliverables
A total of four deliverables were included in WP 5:••••

D27 DSS
D28 Economic evaluation
D29 DSS user manual
D30 WP 5 Report

Deliverable D27 is the DSS tool itself and deliverables D28 and D29 are technical reports
only available for the partners of the project consortium. Deliverable D30 is a summary
report of the work carried out in the work package and publicly available from the project
website: www.geocapacity.eu.
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WP 6 International Co-operation
Work package 6 includes the following sub work packages:••

WP 6.1 with the purpose of initiating technology transfer in China by training of Chinese experts in storage methodology and building a Chinese part of the GIS database.
WP 6.2 with the purpose of promoting and developing CO2 Capture and Storage incountries of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum – CSLF, e.g. Russia andIndia.

The results of WP 6 are described in detail in a technical report and in the public report D35
WP 6 Report, International cooperation.

WP 6.1 Initiation of Technology Transfer in China
Similarly to the programme carried out in parallel by the European GeoCapacity partners,
the objective of this WP was to make an inventory of CO2 emissions sources in one province, assess the storage capacity in one test area (e.g. petroleum province or aquifer system) and, using the available data at this scale, propose scenarios of sources-sink matching.
The study was applied to the Hebei province, which is located in the Bohai Basin, NE China
and the following data were inputted to the GIS:
•
•
•
•
•

CO2 emission sources in the Hebei province (points)
Oil and gas pipelines in the Jizhong depression (polylines)
Hydrocarbon fields in the Jizhong depression (polygons)
Injection points in 25 hydrocarbon fields in the Jizhong depression
Extent of the Tertiary Guantao aquifer at depths >850m (three tectonic sags)(polygon) with one injection point for each sag (points)• Thickness of the Guantao aquifer in the Jizhong depression• Structural base map (raster)
Training of Chinese experts took place through cooperation, meetings and presentations.
Short courses were held during the three years in connection with other projects: formal
official meetings (NZEC), joint general assembly meetings (COACH), specific meetings(GeoCapacity), and thematic meetings (NZEC/COACH/GeoCapacity Basin Workshop).
Except one COACH meeting in Rueil-Malmaison (France) and the basin workshop in
Dongying (China), all the meetings were held in Beijing.
Two formal training sessions for beginners on GIS were given by BGS in Beijing (the firstassisted by GEUS), and informal follow up for advanced users of ArcGIS was provided by
BRGM all along the project.
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The case studies described in WP2 for Europe are complemented by the case study of the
Jizhong depression. Due to the specific Chinese context, a dedicated type of DSS, basedon GIS grids and least cost calculation was initiated thanks to a separate cooperation workon own expenses by 3E/INET (Tsinghua University) and BRGM. This specific tool built on
respective experiences of both partners and is designed to be applied to the other ongoing
EU/UK CCS projects in China, namely the Jilin province after the Hebei province.
Clustering with other European projects in China has developed a synergy between them.
Thus the GeoCapacity experience is currently useful for the other EU (COACH) and UK(NZEC) projects which cover other provinces of the same basin and other basins in otherprovinces.
The results of GeoCapacity WP6.1 were brought to the International Community through a
GHGT9 paper and oral communication. Bridges also exist with regulation and economic
aspects in the EU STRACO2 project through BRGM.
The China-EU cooperation through the GeoCapacity project was:
Useful for China: Thanks to the effort of all the partners, the GeoCapacity experience in
China was successful and has initiated the impulse for other complementary projects of thesame type, applied to other provinces. The work performed together during the work sessions in China aided the Chinese team to be more accurate in CCS research.
Useful for other European projects in China: Due to a constant and tight clustering andsynergy with the current European projects in China: COACH, NZEC, STRACO2, the work
carried out in EU GeoCapacity was shared and can be applied to other provinces of thesame basin and other basins in other provinces.
Useful for China-EU cooperation: Missions to China and to Europe, as well as imbedded
internships have brought to each other cultural and technical satisfactions. In fine, the results of this study were brought to the International Community through a GHGT9 publication.

WP 6.2 Framework for International Co-operation
The objective of this WP was to establish links of cooperation with major CO2 emitters of
the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, namely the emerging economies China,
Russia, and India. This was done by identifying partnerships and projects in these countries, and by initiating sustainable contacts and exchanges with stakeholders and institutions in order to promote CCS knowledge, use and implementation.
Technology transfer in China was developed mainly by the cooperation of BRGM, BGS and
GEUS, communication links in India, through BGS and BRGM and in Russia through
BRGM, IBES (International Bureau for Environmental Studies, Brussels) and University La
Sapienza Roma (CO2GeoNet).

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In Russia, the current project INTAS 06-100025-9220, 'Assessment of the Feasibility of
CO2 Storage in the Russian Permafrost', according to its objectives, 'uses synergies withother European projects, especially EU-GeoCapacity'. In India, the IEAGHG R&D Programme project: 'CO2 Storage Potential in the Indian Subcontinent', was recently completed and carried out partly by BGS, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) and an India-based geological consultancy.
Taking into account the present Indian context, and based on the BRGM/BGS backgroundin India, a new enlarged Indo-EU partnership was created in 2008 at the initiative of BRGM,
BGS and Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) to promote further CCS projects in India.

Deliverables
A total of five deliverables were included in WP 6:
•
•
•
•
•

D31 Chinese demonstration report
D32 Demonstration GIS China
D33 Chinese demonstration DSS
D34 Stakeholder meeting, China
D35 WP 6 Report

Deliverable D31 is a technical report and only available for the partners of the project consortium. Deliverable D33 is included in D31. Deliverable D32 is the Chinese part of the GIS
database and also only available to the consortium. Deliverable D34 was a stakeholder
meeting held in China in 2006 and Deliverable D35 is a summary report of the work carriedout in the work package and publicly available from the project website:www.geocapacity.eu.

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WP 7 Project Management and ReportingWork package 7 includes the following sub work packages:••

WP 7.1 with the purpose of overall project management including project planning,organisation of meetings and management of budget.
WP 7.2 with the purpose of reporting including final report, reporting to the EU andmaintaining a project website.

The results of WP 7 are described in detail in reports to the commission and in this public
report D42 WP 7 Report, GeoCapacity Final Report.

WP 7.1 Overall Project Management
The project management carried out by GEUS (assisted by the country group leaders)
comprised:• Overall project planning and planning of work
• Arrangement of project meetings• Arrangement of workgroup meetings• Budget management• Reporting to the commission
The GeoCapacity project was managed through combined work and steering committee
meetings for the entire consortium twice every year:
Three meetings were held in Period 1:•••

Kick-off Meeting - Copenhagen, February 2006
1st Project Meeting - Toledo, May - June 2006
Storage capacity workshop – Spoleto – October 2006

Two meetings were held in Period 2:••

2nd Project Meeting - Athens, March 2007
3rd Project Meeting - Tallinn, September 2007

Two meetings were held in Period 3:••

4th Project Meeting - Dubrovnik, April 2008
Final Project Meeting - Heviz, October 2008

Agenda, all presentations and minutes from the project meetings can be found on the
GeoCapacity website www.geocapacity.eu.

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WP 7.2 Reporting

Reporting to the EU
Reporting to the EU was carried out after each of the three periods P1, P2 and P3 andcomprised financial statements and Period Activity and Management Reports according to
the contract. The financial statements included audit certificates after P1 and P3 (covering
P2 and P3). The financial statements were provided by each partner, assisted by GEUS
where necessary and were compiled and submitted by GEUS. Contributions to the Periodic
Activity Reports were provided by WP Leaders and leaders of sub-work packages and thereports were compiled and submitted by GEUS. Contributions to the Periodic Management
Reports were provided by each partner and the reports were compiled and submitted by
GEUS.

WebsiteCGS has been responsible for and carried out the construction, maintenance and updatingof the GeoCapacity project website. The Project website was launched in January 2006. It
is hosted by the Internet server of Czech Geological Survey. The website address iswww.geocapacity.eu. The website comprises both a public part with sections Home / News
/ Project / Participants / Events / Publications / Links and a Working area accessible only to
project partners. The website has been maintained and regularly updated during the projectand it is planned that updating will continue until 31/12/2009 while the website itself will berunning until 31/12/2018.
New parts and functionalities were added both to the open and to the members-only partsof the website during the project duration, like the End-User Group and Deliverables pages
or the visitor’s analytics. The website has also been used for information dissemination andexchange among the partners and End-User Group members. Until 31/12/2008, the website has registered 12,164 visits from 7,397 visitors coming from 117 countries.

Reporting
An overview of the deliverables in the GeoCapacity project and their availability is given
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WP1
No. Title
1
Data Specification2
Questionnaire
3
Inventory of point sources
4
Infrastructure data
5
Project GIS
6
Web enabled GIS
7
Sink source maps
8
WP 1 Report
9
GIS user manual

Type
ReportReport
Other
Other
Demo
Proto
Other
ReportReportStatusAvailable on final report CD
Available on final report CD
Part of project GIS
Part of project GIS
Available on DVD for consortium
Access via website for consortium
Available on final report CD
Available on project CD/website
Available on final report CD

Type
Other
Other

WP2
No. Title
10
Maps of regional storage potential
11
Geological information of storage
sites
12
Storage capacities

Other

13
14
15
16

Other
O/R
Other
ReportStatusAvailable on final report CD
Available on final report CD/part of project
GIS
Available on final report CD/part of project
GIS
Part of project GIS
Available on final report CD
Part of project GIS
Available on project CD/website

Type
ReportStatusAvailable on final report CD

ReportR/O

Available on final report CD
Available on final report CD

R/O

Available on final report CD

Other
ReportPart of project GIS
Available on project CD/website

Type
ReportReportOther
ReportStatusAvailable on final report CD
Available on final report CD
Available on final report CD
Available on project CD/website

Data for project GIS
Case Study Scenarios
Country Updates
WP 2 Report

WP3
No. Title
17
Potential for CO2 use in hydrocarbon
fields18
Potential for CO2 use in coal beds
19
GeoCapcatiy economic use of CO2
in hydrocarbon fields
20
GeoCapcatiy economic use of CO2
in coal beds
21
Data inputted into GIS and DSS
22
WP 3 Report

WP4
No. Title
23
Site selection criteria
24
Storage capacity standards
25
Application of standards
26
WP 4 Report

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WP5
No. Title
27
DSS
28
Economic evaluation
29
DSS user manual30
WP 5 Report

Type
Demo
ReportReportReportStatusAvailable on CD/website for consortium
Available on final report CD
Available on final report CD
Available on project CD/website

WP6
No. Title
31
Chinese demonstration report32
Demonstration GIS China
33
Chinese demonstration DSS
34
Stakeholder meeting, China35
WP 6 Report

Type
Report
Demo
Demo
Other
ReportStatusAvailable on final report CD
Part of project GIS
Available on final report CD
China, July 2006
Available on project CD/website

WP7
No. Title
36
Project planning
37
Project meetings
38
Workgroup meetings
39
Budget Management
40
Reporting to the commission
41
Interim Reports
42
Final Report
43
Final Report CD
44
Conference papers

Type
Other
Other
Other
Other
ReportReportReportReport
Other

45

Other

StatusAd hocTwo in each year of the project
Ad hoc and with project meetings
As specified in contract
As specified in contract
As specified in contract
Available on project CD/website
Available for the consortium
See website and public Periodic Activity
Report P1-P3
www.geocapacity.eu

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Use and dissemination of knowledge
The dissemination of knowledge generated by and within GeoCapacity has been directed
towards different target groups and stakeholders, at various classification levels. Knowledge aggregated in deliverables are protected or open for distribution in accordance withthe classification codes given in Description of Work, Annex 1 to the contract between Coordinator and the Commission.
The following publishable results have been made available during the project:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

D8 WP1 Report, Inventories and GIS
D16 WP2 Report, Storage capacity
D22 WP 3 Report, Economic uses of CO2
D26 WP 4 Report, Capacity standards and site selection criteria
D30 WP5 Report, DSS and economic evaluations
D35 WP6 Report, International cooperation
D42 GeoCapacity Final Report
D44 Conference papers
D45 Website

Deliverable D45 Website has been described above and contains available public information. The website address is www.geocapacity.eu.
As part of deliverable D44 GeoCapacity has been represented and/or presented at morethan 25 international meetings and conferences since the start of the project. The GHGT-9
in Washington in November 2008 included 9 GeoCapacity contributions and the project has
been covered by two editorials in the eStrategies Projects magazine and an advertisementin the Parliament Magazine.
The list of papers, extended abstracts and presentations based on project work counts
more than 50 entries. Furthermore, four groups have been formed for looking into possibilities of dissemination of GeoCapacity results:••••

Group 1: Investigation of publication possibilities in high ranking journals
Group 2: Promotion of project results and reports on website, conferences etc.
Group 3: Investigation of possibilities of dissemination through Parliament
Magazine, GHG Journal and Newsletter etc.
Group 4: Production of a professional brochure presenting GeoCapacity results

Finally, a GeoCapacity Result Seminar is planned in Copenhagen in 2009 (autumn) for
project partners, end-users and other interested parties.
A detailed list of events, publications and presentations appears from the project website
www.geocapacity.eu and the Periodic Activity Report covering the entire project period.

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Conclusion
The GeoCapacity project does not comprise the development of a marketable product assuch, but was designed to provide the rationale for and scientific documentation of a concept for CO2 subsurface storage. This has been needed in order to show sufficient storage
capacity for the concept to be viable for wide-scale application and to show that storage
can be done cost efficiently. The results of the GeoCapacity study are thus aimed at thefollowing three user groups:•••

Policy makers (UN, EU, national level) for setting emission prices and accepting theconcept as greenhouse gas sink
Power companies facing emission level regulations
Potential storage operators and providers of goods and services, looking for newmarkets for advanced products

The results of the GeoCapacity study are the first detailed pan-European assessment of
CO2 storage capacity and some of the main achievements in the project have been:
•
•
•
•
•

Establishing a CCS inventory of Europe based on a GIS platform
Developing an advanced Decision Support System (DSS)
Paving the ground for a CO2 storage atlas of Europe
Contribution to standards and guidelines for assessment of geological storage capacity, site selection criteria and methodology for ranking
Pioneering CCS work in many European countries and China

Results of the study are provided in public Work Package Reports and in the Final Reportof the project. These reports are written for non-technicians and the technical and geological results are intended to provide a solid foundation upon which the concept of CCS canbe judged and, hopefully, be declared sufficiently sound to warrant widespread applicationin Europe. Public/political acceptance is considered to be a prerequisite for further development of CCS into a marketable commodity.

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