OVERVIEW OF MRCSP PROJECTS

The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) is one of seven partnerships under the Department of Energy’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (RCSP) Program. Covering a nine state region that includes parts of Indiana and Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, the MRCSP is building a knowledge base of CO2 sources and sinks (geologic and terrestrial) and other technical and social information to support implementation of carbon sequestration in the region. Over the past four years the MRCSP has conducted three CO2 injection projects into deep saline formations representative of the region’s geologic diversity. The field demonstrations include injection of about 60,000 tonnes of CO2 in a dolomite layer in northern Michigan basin, injection of about 1000 tonnes in the Mt. Simon Sandstone in the Cincinnati Arch province, and injectivity testing in three zones in the Appalachian Basin provinces. This presentation is an overview and summary of the research being carried out in the MRCSP including a summary of the three deep saline injection projects completed to date.