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SUSAN HOVORKA, TIP MECKEL, RAMON TREVINOGulf Coast Carbon CenterBureau of Economic GeologyJackson School of GeosciencesThe University of Texas at Austin
GOMCARBPARTNERSHIP Offshore Gulf of Mexico Partnership for Carbon Storage Resources and Technology Development
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Subsea deep saline storage: • Adds storage resource for the US• Reduces multiple risks of onshore storage
NETLNATCARB Atlas 2015
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Ready for investment in US?• Advanced in other parts of world (see panel 2))
CSFL report 2015
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The problem and the opportunity: Numerous sources of CO2 in high concentrations are collocated on thick of sedimentary rocks
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Ready for investment in US?• .Storage not demonstrated in US waters
• Lots of progress on feasibility (see rest of this program!)• 2008 overall capacity evaluation• Characterization studies – SOSRA and TXLA GOM• Multi-state characterization studies in eastern US and west coast• Two source-sink matching studies in Carbon SAFE Phase
• How and where will the “show me” moment occur?
Chemical sector emissions EIA 2018 Refineries Sector Emissions IEA 2018
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Gulf Coast Case• Concentrated high concentration sources
• Petrochemical, natural gas, LNG• Investment and growth
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Gulf Coast petrochemical industrial expansions capital expenditures Coombus, et al, 2017Ramon Gil
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Focus on HubsAggregation of sources yields higher volumes and lower cost per ton stored
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GoMCarb
Areas of Interest• Onshore (CO2 sources)• Offshore (storage &
related topics)o All Texas & Louisiana
state waterso Texas & western
Louisiana federal waters
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GoMCarb
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Institution Location ExpertiseGCCC (Gulf Coast Carbon Center) Austin, TX Project Lead; All Tasks
GBDS (Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis) Austin, TX GoM Basin Geology; Resource AssessmentPGE (Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering) Austin, TX Reservoir Simulation & Knowledge DisseminationMoody College of Communications Austin, TX Knowledge DisseminationAker Solutions Houston, TX Infrastructure Technologies
Fugro USA Marine, Inc. Houston, TX Marine MVA Technologies
Lamar University Beaumont, TX Risk Assessment & Knowledge Dissemination
Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab Berkeley, CA Risk Assessment & MVA Technologies
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab Livermore, CA Risk Assessment
Louisiana Geologic Survey (LSU) Baton Rouge, LA Resource Assessment & Database Development
TDI-Brooks, Int. College Station, TX MVA Technologies (HR3D seismic deployment)
Texas A&M GERG (Geochemical andEnvironmental Research Group) College Station, TX MVA Technologies (Marine Water Column Geoscience)
Trimeric Corp. Buda, TX Engineering; Infrastructure and Operations
USGS Reston, VA Resource Assessment
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Available Regional 3D Seismic Datasets
Legacy from previous NETL studies- Texas Miocene Mega-Transect- TXLA- CarbonSAFE 1Many public domain datasets in OCS (Federal Waters) Leased proprietary datasets. 1) Texas OBS / High Island2) TexLa Merge 3) Chandeleur Sound*
(*recent GoMCarb lease)
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RAMON TREVINOTexas BEG, GCCC
THANK YOU
