Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships

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Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships
Pathways to Sustainable Use of Fossil Energy
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Portfolio Overview FY2004
Non-CO2
Breakthrough Concepts

• Diverse research portfolio
• Strong industry support
• 36 cost share
• Total portfolio 140M

MMV
Regional Partnerships
Sequestration
Capture
Budget (Million )
Fiscal Year
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Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships
Developing Infrastructure for Wide-Scale
Deployment

• Baseline region for sources and sinks
• Address regulatory, environmental, outreach
  issues
• Establish monitoring and
  verification protocols

These partnerships - 4 to 10 across the country,
each made up of private industry, universities,
and state and local governments - will become the
centerpiece of our sequestration program. They
will help us determine the technologies,
regulations, and infrastructure that are best
suited for specific regions of the
country. Energy Secretary Spencer
Abraham November 21, 2002

• Validating sequestration technology
  infrastructure
• Phase 1 Planning
• Phase 2 Proof of Concepts
• Determine benefits of sequestration to region

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Partnerships Are Critical Program Component
Core RD
Measurement, Monitoring Verification
Capture of CO2
Infrastructure
Regional Partnerships
Non-CO2 GHG Mitigation
Sequestration
Break- through Concepts
Integration
FutureGen Integrated Sequestration and Hydrogen
Initiative
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Program Component Relationships in Time
FutureGen
Project Development
Operation
Geologic Sink Oppor- tunities
Deploy- ment Oppor- tunities
Permitting, Safety, Regulatory, Outreach

MMV Protocols MMV Capture Technologies
Phase 1
Phase 2
Regional Partnerships RD Advances
2002
2008
2006
2010
2004
2012
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Major Sequestration Issues

• Health, safety, and environmental risks
• Permanence and large-scale verification
• Capacity evaluation
• Infrastructure
• Uncertain regulatory frameworks
• Protocols for identifying amenable storage sites
• Direct CO2 storage
• Enhanced natural sinks

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Requirements for Sequestration

• Environmentally acceptable
• No legacy for future generations
• Respect existing ecosystems
• Safe
• No sudden large-scale CO2 discharges
• Verifiable
• Ability to verify amount of CO2 sequestered
• Economically viable

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Sequestration

• Issues
• Health, safety, and environmental risks
• Uncertain regulatory framework
• Site selection
• Pathways

• Field experiments / demos
• Protocols for identifying amenable storage sites
• Capacity evaluation studies
• Underlying science

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Seven Regional PartnershipsNetwork of
Partnerships to Determine Technologies,
Regulations, Infrastructure Needs for Each Region
Big Sky
Plains
West Coast
Illinois Basin
Midwest
South- west

• 40 States
• 154 Organizations
• 3 Indian Nations
• 2 Provinces

Southeast
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Partnership Program has a Two-Phased Approach

• Current Phase I (Planning)
• 7 Projects
• 18-24 months
• 1.5 million per project
• Overall 40 cost share
• 2 exceed 50 cost share
• Proposed Phase II (Proof-of-Concepts)
• - about 8 years duration
• - up to about 4 million/year-project
• - 20 cost share (minimum)

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Phase I Outcomes

• Regional Carbon Sequestration Atlases
• Regional Sequestration options, potential, and
  prioritization (direct and/or indirect)
• Sources of CO2

• Existing infrastructure and requirements
• Incorporate Regional Atlases into National
  Repository

Courtesy of Tim Carr, KGS, MIDCARB (now NATCARB)
Project
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Phase I Outcomes

• Action Plan for Regulatory Compliance
• Existing or future regulations that will impact
  sequestration program
• Identify risk assessment and liability issues
• Timeline for permitting regional projects
• MMV and Reporting Requirements
• Responsibilities
• Action Plan for Public Outreach and Education
• Methods to engage the public
• Tools to educate stakeholders
• Regulatory requirements for public outreach

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Phase I Outcomes Form Basis of Phase II Concept

• Regional Project Implementation Plan(s)

• Identify the most promising technologies/
  approaches to sequester carbon directly or
  indirectly and/or capture carbon in the region

• Cost/benefit analysis to support project
• Public Education and Outreach Action Plan(s)
• Regulatory Compliance Action Plan(s)
• MMV Project Requirements

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Phase II of Regional Partnerships NB Details
Still Under Development

• Tasks
• Perform proof-of-concept field tests for
  technology infrastructure concepts
• Establish, implement, and refine
• Measurement, monitoring verification protocols
• Accounting, regulatory liability action plans
• Continue characterization efforts
• Implement outreach mechanisms
• Assessment of regional feasibility and
  integration of components

Not a technology development program!
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General Phase II Characteristics

• Scale Dependent upon FY05 appropriations
  current planning is for each selected Partnership
  to be funded at about 4M/year, but subject to
  actual appropriations and other programmatic
  considerations.
• Cost Share As the contractual instrument will
  most likely be Financial Assistance (Cooperative
  Agreement), there will be a cost share
  requirement as there was in Phase I anticipated
  to be at least 20 but not finalized as of this
  time.
• Duration Expected to be on order of about 8
  years subject to budgets, programmatic needs,
  and other considerations.
• Not a more study focus Focus on implementing
  plans drilling and other tangible efforts
  expected.

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Draft Phase II RFP

• At this point in time, the actual details of the
  RFP in terms of required tasks, specifications,
  and evaluation criteria have not been finalized
  RFP is currently a work in progress
• having said that
• RFP anticipated to be issued January 2005
• Applications anticipated to be due to DOE-NETL in
  March-April 2005 timeframe
• Selections and Awards are planned to be made by
  the end of FY05 (August-September 2005)

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Details to FollowStay Tuned
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