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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced plans to make US$4 million in federal funding available for cost-shared research and development of tools and methods to optimise safe, secure, and verifiable carbon dioxide (CO2) storage.

 

Funding opportunity announcement (FOA), DE-FOA-0002401, ‘Emerging CO2 Storage Technologies: Optimizing Performance Through Minimization of Seismicity Risks and Monitoring Caprock Integrity’, will support the goals of the advanced storage R&D technology area of DOE’s Carbon Storage Program.

 

DOE’s Carbon Storage Program focuses on developing, testing, and verifying technologies and techniques that address challenges related to long-term, commercial-scale storage of CO2 in the deep subsurface. Key initiatives within the advanced storage R&D area include improvements to monitor the seal integrity of caprocks and to predict seismicity magnitudes and potential hazards before and during the injection of CO2.

 

The intent of the FOA is to solicit and competitively select cost-shared applications that show the most promise for developing novel tools and methods to improve:

 

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