In making its recommendations, the team will draw heavily from this report. It has expanded to include methane, as well as forestation options. About 70 oil fields use CO 2 injection to recover additional crude oil. Various oil companies have proposed to sequester CO 2 at the rate of 30 million tonnes of carbon per year in the deep aquifers adjacent to the Natuna gas field, in the South China Sea, when that field comes into production. Many domestic and international forest preservation and management projects sequester carbon by reducing deforestation and harvest impacts.
Forest management can also enhance existing carbon sinks.
These industrial efforts are very important, but the amounts of CO 2 sequestered are very small compared with overall emissions.