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DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

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The seven partnerships form a national network that is investigating the best approaches for capturing and permanently storing CO 2. The results of the PCOR Partnership’s Phase I characterization activities indicated that the region’s low-rank coal seams have the capacity to store up to 8 billion tons of CO 2.

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DOE Regional Partnership Begins Core Sampling for Large-Volume Carbon Sequestration Test

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Geologic carbon sequestration is expected to play an important future role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change. As part of these activities, numerous geomechanical and geochemical tests designed to evaluate the performance of the reservoir and containment rocks will be performed.