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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Advanced Resources International , Arlington, Va. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology , Soccoro, N.M. The development of refined and coupled geochemical, mechanical, and flow models will yield better predictions of subsurface CO 2 behavior, thereby assisting the design and implementation of CO 2 geologic storage projects.

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DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

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Arlington, Va.) New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Socorro, N.M.) Carbon storage in depleted oil and gas reservoirs can also increase oil or gas production, while storage of CO 2 in deep saline formations holds the promise of enormous worldwide capacity, with estimates of thousands of gigatonnes of storage.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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Creating a successional model for carbon remediation in the Gulf of Mexico. Enhancing Bacterial Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Synthesis of Building Blocks for the Carboxysome, A Metabolic Module for CO2 Fixation. University of Texas at Arlington. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Gilbert, Jack. Gross, Stephen.