Field Validation Tests and Demonstrations
The PCOR Partnership is developing and carrying out a variety of field projects to demonstrate and optimize practical and environmentally sound geologic and terrestrial sequestration in the partnership region.
From the fall of 2005 to the fall of 2009, the PCOR Partnership will be developing and carrying out four field validation projects in the PCOR Partnership region. These four field validation projects are designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of CO2 sequestration in different settings and under different conditions. The PCOR Partnership field validation projects are among three dozen field validation projects that will occur in North America as part of Phase II of the U.S. Department of Energy Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program.
In the fall of 2007, the Partnership began developing two commercial-scale, long-term field demonstration projects for geologic CO2 sequestration. The PCOR Partnership commercial-scale sequestration field demonstrations are scheduled to run until 2017 and are among the several large-scale geologic demonstration projects that will occur in North America as part of Phase III of the U.S. Department of Energy Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program.
The region is also the site of the Weyburn geologic sequestration project, active since 2002.
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