NETL: News Release - DOE-Sponsored Mississippi Project Hits 1-Million-Ton Milestone for Injected CO2

"Washington, D.C. —A large-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) storage project in Mississippi has become the fifth worldwide to reach the important milestone of more than 1 million tons injected. As a result, it is helping to both further carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a mitigation strategy for global climate change and move forward G-8 recommendations for launching 20 projects of this type internationally by 2010.

The project, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE), is located at the Cranfield site in Southwestern Mississippi. It is led by the Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB), one of seven members of the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Program (RCSP) managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).

CCS is a group of technologies for capturing and compressing the CO2 emitted by power plants or industrial sites; transporting it; and injecting it into suitable permanent storage sites, such as deep underground formations. It has been increasingly recognized by scientists and nations worldwide as an effective way to both reduce CO2 emissions from existing sources and help avoid future emissions, making it part of a portfolio response to meet atmospheric CO2 reduction goals. Additionally, the G-8 – of which the United States is a part – has endorsed demonstrating CCS by getting at least 20 industrial-scale projects underway, with the goal of broad deployment of the technology by 2020."

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