DOE testing 150,000-ton carbon storage project

20 July 2009-- Two members of the U.S. Department of Energy's Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership program plan to store 150,000 tons of CO₂ captured from a coal-fired power plant, beginning in 2011.

Southern Company and the Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB) said the storage project will capture CO₂ from Alabama Power's 2.657 MW Barry Plant near Mobile, transport it through pipelines and inject it into a saline reservoir 9,000 feet beneath the surface with oil-bearing formations above and below. A monitoring process will track the movement of the CO₂ and make sure it is properly stored. Up to 150,000 tons of CO₂ will be kept.

A conservative estimate by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said the storage capacity for proposed formations in four southeastern states is 10 billion metric tons of CO₂.

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