Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership

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The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP), led by Battelle Memorial Institute, assessing the technical potential, economic viability, and public acceptability of carbon sequestration within its region. The MRCSP consists of seven contiguous states: Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The MRCSP will conduct two or more small-scale CO2 injection field tests in the region's deep geologic reservoirs to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of geologic sequestration systems. The MRCSP also will conduct small-scale field validation tests of terrestrial sequestration to show how the stored carbon can be measured and monitored and how carbon credits could be traded in voluntary greenhouse gas markets. Another key component of the MRCSP's Validation Phase activities will be an innovative "piggyback drilling" program pioneered by Battelle that will allow the Partnership to leverage the ongoing and extensive investments made by local oil and natural gas drilling companies to gather "real world" sequestration-related data, such as core samples from deep geologic formations. The geologic field tests will involve EOR, ECBM, and saline formation sequestration.