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DOE has created a network of seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSPs) to help develop the technology, infrastructure, and regulations to implement large-scale CO 2 storage (also called carbon sequestration) in different regions and geologic formations within the Nation. Collectively, the seven RCSPs represent regions encompassing: • 97 percent of coal-fired CO 2 emissions; • 97 percent of industrial CO 2 emissions; • 96 percent of the total land mass; and essentially all the geologic sequestration sites in the U.S. potentially available for carbon storage. We launched this initiative in 2003. It's being com pleted in phases (I, II, and III) and forms the centerpiece of national efforts to develop the infrastructure and knowledge base needed to place carbon storage and utilization technologies o n the path to commercialization. Phase I: Characterization During the first phase of the program, the Partners hips characterized the potential for CO 2 storage in deep oil-, gas-, coal-, and saline-beari ng formations. This work led to the Clean Coal Carbon Capture and Storage Capture Storage Utilization MVA Regional Partnerships Oil & Gas Home» Science & Innovation » Carbon Capture and Storage» Regional Partnerships 

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7/26/2015 http://energy.gov/fe/science - innovation/carbon - capture - and - storage - research/regional - part ...publication of the Carbon Sequestration Atlas of th e United States and Canada, which was last updated in December 2012. Phase II: Validation In the program's second phase, the Partnerships con firmed and validated regional sequestration opportunities through small-scale (le ss than 500,000 metric tons total) geological storage tests. Twenty small-scale geolog ic storage tests were conducted that collected additional data to: • confirm storage and injectivity estimates; • validate reservoir simulation models; • demonstrate effective monitoring, verification and accounting methods; and • develop guidelines for well completion, operations , and closure. Phase III: Development In the third phase, the RCSPs are working to implem ent eight large-scale (one million metric tons or more total) geologic storage and utilizatio n projects that will demonstrate the longterm, effective, and safe storage and utilization o f CO 2 in the major geologic formations throughout the United States and portions of Canada . Phase III efforts are underway throughout the partnerships and injections are in p rocess at six sites. The tests will: • Provide scientific data to validate the capacity e stimates to within +/- 30% for deep saline formations, where little data currently exists. • Assess the effects of reservoir heterogeneity on t he performance of the storage operations to contact the pore space and maintain injectivity. • Validate the reservoir models against field data; implement mitigation strategies to reduce potential hazards; and verify the fate of the injected CO 2 using the most advanced monitoring networks applied to date. • Finally, these projects will demonstrate that the projects are representative of the regional geology to store large volumes of CO 2 emissions generated from major point sources. The seven RCSPs are comprised of more than 400 dive rse organizations covering 43 states and four Canadian provinces. Click on each of the l inks below to learn more about the activities of each RCSP.

• Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership ( Big Sky)

• Plains CO 2 Reduction Partnership (PCOR)

• Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC)

• Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership ( MRCSP)

• Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership(SECARB)

• Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestrat ion (SWP)

• West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnershi p (WESTCARB) 

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