Project Selections for FOA 2799: Regional Initiative to Accelerate Carbon Management Deployment: Technical Assistance for Large Scale Storage Facilities and Regional Carbon Management Hubs
AREA OF INTEREST 1 — TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOR GEOLOGIC CO2 STORAGE AND TRANSPORT AT LARGE-SCALE STORAGE FACILITIES OR WITHIN PROSPECTIVE REGIONAL CARBON MANAGEMENT HUBS
Supporting Communities and Industry for Mid-Atlantic Offshore Carbon Storage Hub Development — Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) intends to establish a foundation for a carbon management hub along the Mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf from northern Virginia to Massachusetts to help meet regional decarbonization goals set by states, communities and industry. The Mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf is a key area for CO2 storage due to its large carbon storage resource and proximity to industrial sources of CO2 emissions while having few options for local storage. The project presents multiple geological storage options, industrial support for carbon management, and economic advantages for jobs and long-term infrastructure development along the U.S. East Coast.
DOE Funding: $2,499,665
Non-DOE Funding: $783,592
Total Value: $3,283,257
Project WyoTCH: Developing a Roadmap for a Sustainable Carbon Hub — Carbon Solutions LLC (Okemos, Michigan) plans to develop a carbon management hub roadmap that will serve as a planning document for the Project WyoTCH hub, as well as a set of lessons learned for future open-access carbon hub development. The roadmap will allow stakeholders to visualize and analyze hundreds to thousands of carbon management infrastructure scenarios, identifying key thresholds for policies, investments, and risk to determine how this information can be used to develop a robust business case. The Project WyoTCH hub aims to capture, transport, and store between 10 and 25 million tonnes of CO2 a year from a diverse range of 30 facilities across the southern half of Wyoming.
DOE Funding: $2,500,000
Non-DOE Funding: $850,000
Total Value: $3,350,000
CUSP: Four Corners Regional Initiative — New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Socorro, New Mexico) intends to implement a regional initiative to accelerate deployment of carbon management within the Four Corners region by providing technical and engagement the support for stakeholders within the region to develop a framework to accelerate establishment of a carbon management hub. The project team intends to improve, particularly in areas of saline aquifer characterization, understanding of stacked storage complexes, accurate characterization of carbon management potential, identification of geological risks, understanding of lifetime of potential CO2 sources, knowledge of pipeline capacity, and more in the Four Corners region. Outreach programs and support industry-based programs will educate the public on the usefulness of the integrated carbon management project within the region, accelerating the deployment of the projects.
DOE Funding: $ 2,499,808
Non-DOE Funding: $ 625,181
Total Value: $ 3,124,989
Anadarko Basin Carbon Management Hub — Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma) plans to establish a carbon management hub focused on developing carbon management infrastructure at a geological storage complex in the north-central Anadarko Basin. Project efforts will focus on identifying key technical knowledge gaps; facilitating data acquisition, sharing, and analysis to close the gaps; evaluating regional infrastructure; promoting technology transfer; and public engagement and support. The project will build on the intellectual and social products of previously funded Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership efforts and channel public engagement through ongoing educational efforts at Oklahoma State University, which, in association with industry and professional society partners, aspires to create a “carbon-ready” workforce.
DOE Funding: $ 1,357,713
Non-DOE Funding: $ 465,364
Total Value: $ 1,823,077
Liberty Carbon Management Hub — University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota) intends to provide technical assistance and engagement to a prospective large-scale carbon management storage hub, with strong emphasis on public engagement activities, environmental justice analysis, and social science research that will support a better understanding of the social landscape of the region in which the hub would be developed. In this project, the Energy and Environmental Research Center, with direction from Marathon Petroleum Corporation and TC Energy, will leverage its nearly 20 years of carbon management outreach experience to organize, lead and maintain meaningful engagement and mutual learning around carbon management with communities, stakeholders, and members of the public.
DOE Funding: $2,500,000
Non-DOE Funding: $689,844
Total Value: $3,189,844
Texas Louisiana Carbon Management Community — The University of Texas (Austin, Texas) plans to respond to carbon management needs and concerns of individuals and communities by establishing and supporting a stakeholder community that will provide accurate and reliable information about carbon management as an emissions mitigation option for the hundreds of industrial and power sector CO2 emissions sources in the area. The project will tap the expertise and mission of six universities in the region and will leverage the existing engagement strengths by enhancing and augmenting each university’s expertise and having them coordinate dialog about all the critical components of carbon management.
DOE Funding: $2,485,889
Non-DOE Funding: $621,473
Total Value: $3,107,362
AREA OF INTEREST 2 — STATE GEOLOGICAL DATA GATHERING, ANALYSIS, SHARING, AND ENGAGEMENT
Assess and Provide Pertinent Data and Information to an Emerging Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Industry with the Goal of Accelerating CO2 Sequestration in Cook Inlet Region — Alaska Department of Natural Resources (Fairbanks, Alaska) plans to assess and provide pertinent data via the Alaska Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Database to an emerging carbon management industry with the goal of accelerating the development and implementation of CO2 storage within the Cook Inlet Region of Alaska. The overall objective of this project is to equip industry to understand the storage potential of Cook Inlet while also helping the people of Alaska understand carbon management and the role it can play in decarbonization.
DOE Funding: $1,000,000
Non-DOE Funding: $250,000
Total Value: $1,250,000
Oklahoma Geological Survey Coordination of Mid-Continent Carbon Management — Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) intends to position the Oklahoma Geological Survey for the geological implementation and seismic hazard mitigation of carbon management while fostering community, industry, and state agency engagement. This project will support the Oklahoma Geological Survey in positioning Oklahoma for state regulatory primacy, minimizing hazards, and providing public data and analyses on carbon management opportunities. Through this project, the Oklahoma Geological Survey will be positioned to coordinate across local, tribal, and industry communities as carbon management is deployed across the mid-continent.
DOE Funding: $999,994
Non-DOE Funding: $252,758
Total Value: $1,252,752
A Play-Based Exploration of Carbon Capture and Storage Potential of the Illinois Basin — Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL) plans to build a database using existing subsurface, surface, and societal data for entities screening areas of Illinois for commercial geologic CO2 storage. Disparate datasets will be combined into an integrated geospatial database that will be the basis of a play analysis. Whether maturing a CO2 storage project following best practices for site screening, selection and characterization, or within a resource management system, the play analysis developed in the project is ultimately designed to enhance geological data gathering, analysis, and sharing to create the knowledge base required to inform the development of large-scale storage facilities or carbon management hubs in Illinois.
DOE Funding: $999,985
Non-DOE Funding: $251,051
Total Value: $1,251,036
Alabama Carbon Storage: Data Sharing and Engagement — Geological Survey of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) intends to accelerate the responsible development of large carbon management projects in the Gulf Coastal Plain of Alabama and offshore in state waters through the development of a publicly accessible database of geologic carbon storage models and data across the region. The project’s robust education, outreach, and engagement plans will also help communities that may be impacted by carbon management development by empowering them to be part of the decision-making process.
DOE Funding: $958,735
Non-DOE Funding: $241,033
Total Value: $1,199,768
Subsurface Seismic Structural Characterization of the Hogback Monocline and Thermal Characterization of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico — New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Socorro, New Mexico) plans to accelerate the safe deployment of carbon management in the San Juan Basin through data gathering, data analysis, data dissemination, sharing, and engagement and the development of data infrastructure for carbon management and related activities. The project team intends to improve understanding of the basin structure, faults, and associated geological risks, particularly in the Hogback monocline area on the northwest side of the San Juan Basin. Also, outreach programs will educate the public on the usefulness of the integrated carbon management project within the region, and successful outreach activities will accelerate the deployment of carbon management projects.
DOE Funding: $906,965
Non-DOE Funding: $273,885
Total Value: $1,180,850
The Central Appalachian Partnership for Carbon Storage — The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) intends to accelerate the deployment of carbon management in Pennsylvania and West Virginia by reducing barriers to entry to carbon storage project opportunities. Partnering with the Pennsylvania Geological Survey and the West Virginia Geological Survey, the project team will build on their expertise with respect to oil, gas, and subsurface geology conditions in the Appalachian Basin and the collaborative relationships and the regional knowledge base resulting from two decades of regional characterization efforts with DOE and Battelle (i.e., the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership and Midwest Regional Carbon Initiative) to address gaps and aggregate the most pertinent geologic and geospatial datasets to construct a free, public-facing web-based tool with comprehensive datasets and information needed to inform CO2 storage permitting efforts.
DOE Funding: $998,015
Non-DOE Funding: $387,188
Total Value: $1,385,203
Characterization of Subsurface Energy Opportunities to Accelerate Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage in Indiana — Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana) plan to identify favorable areas in Indiana that can support commercial-scale carbon management hubs to accelerate the adoption of the technology, focusing on multiple saline reservoirs of Cambrian and Ordovician age at ideal depths for sequestering carbon. Leveraging the talents of Indiana University’s Center for Rural Engagement, the Polis Center at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, and faculty in various departments, this project intends to: identify and communicate the benefits and impacts of the project; outline investments that will impact economic revitalization and job creation; and create an engagement plan for the local community and stakeholders.
DOE Funding: $1,000,000
Non-DOE Funding: $594,178
Total Value: $1,594,178
Wyoming Class VI Site Characterization Database — University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) intends to accelerate carbon management storage hub development in Wyoming by providing and verifying the geotechnical data needed for Class VI permit applications in the Greater Green River Basin. The project will maintain a database providing geotechnical information, compiled and verified from established, public geologic databases/entities. The database will also include a record of key issues developers may consider when preparing Class VI well permit applications to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. The creation and implementation of the Wyoming Class VI Characterization Database will utilize expertise from many fields.
DOE Funding: $998,968
Non-DOE Funding: $999,925
Total Value: $1,998,893
Utah Statewide Carbon Storage Assessment: Geological Data Gathering, Analysis, Sharing, and Engagement — Utah Geological Survey (Salt Lake City, Utah) plans to conduct necessary scientific work to assess the carbon storage potential of numerous underground geological formations within the state of Utah. This project will achieve its goal by systematically aggregating information from existing public sources, producing new geologic data by analyzing rock samples from outcrop and samples housed within the Utah Core Research Center, and interpreting the results and disseminating organized and accurate reports that summarize the potential for effective carbon storage in different regions throughout the state, all while considering the societal and environmental impacts of this work. Foundational geologic work, like that proposed by the Utah Geological Survey for this project, will set the stage for future business investment and endeavors in the state.
DOE Funding: $892,683
Non-DOE Funding: $238,705
Total Value: $1,131,388
Advancing Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage in the Michigan Basin — Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan) intends to reduce the risks of commercial-scale storage, advance the understanding of carbon management technology within communities, and ensure the long-term, safe, and equitable storage of CO2 within the Michigan Basin. The results of the project will provide the necessary data, information, and tools needed to assess sites and inform decision-making, with the goal to make all results accessible to all stakeholders and communities. This will allow the growth and advancement of carbon management in a prime region and provide methods and examples for other regions to implement.
DOE Funding: $862,117
Non-DOE Funding: $219,435
Total Value: $1,081,552