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North Sea Sandstone Could Be Used to Store Carbon Dioxide, Report Suggests
The central North Sea holds about 60% of the UK's estimated CO2 storage capacity, supporting the government’s £21.7 billion carbon capture and storage investment.
- Amid the UK’s CCS push, the British Geological Survey has begun a programme to characterise the Palaeogene sandstone storage system beneath the central North Sea, which accounts for about 60% of the UK’s estimated CO2 storage capacity.
- Roughly 60% of the UK's estimated CO2 storage capacity lies in the central North Sea, but BGS says it remains under-represented and the UK must look beyond well-appraised areas to meet its 2050 storage ambition.
- Testing sealing layers and legacy oil and gas wells, BGS will assess risks to CO2 containment and evaluate connectivity between sandstone units during injection at more than 800 metres depth.
- The study could unlock one of the UK's largest carbon storage resources and underpin the Government's £21.7 billion CCS investment, while few licences exist in the central North Sea.
- From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, BGS undertook pioneering evaluations of offshore CO2 storage in the southern North Sea and east Irish Sea, where sites were later licensed by the North Sea Transition Authority.
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