Terrestrial Saline Aquifers: Potential Storage Sites

Potential Storage Sites

Population density maps are included because the injected CO₂ plume will spread, and people may resist carbon capture and sequestration projects if there is the possibility that a plume will spread underneath their homes and leak (Bachu, 2009).

Brazil

Annual Emissions:

~0.347 metric Gt (IEA, 2009)

Saline Aquifer Capacity:

~2,000 metric Gt (Ketzer et al, 2007)

Point Source Emissions: (Ketzer et al, 2007)

Saline Aquifer Distribution: (Ketzer et al, 2007)

Population Density in 2000: (World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment, 2005)

China

Annual Emissions:

~6.07 metric Gt (IEA, 2009)

Saline Aquifer Capacity:

~3,066 metric Gt (Li et al, 2009)

Point Source Emissions: (Li et al, 2009)

Saline Aquifer Distribution: (Li et al, 2009) (Woody, 2009)

Population Density in 2000: (World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment, 2005)

Europe

Annual Emissions:

~4.06 metric Gt (IEA, 2009)

Saline Aquifer Capacity:

~95.7 metric Gt (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, 2009)

Point Source Emissions and Saline Aquifer Distribution: (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, 2009)

About 25% of Europe's storage capacity is in deep offshore saline aquifers in Norway.

Population Density in 2000: (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, 2009)

USA

Annual Emissions: ~5.77 metric Gt (IEA, 2009)

Saline Aquifer Capacity: ~3,300 - 12,600 metric Gt (Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United States and Canada, 2008)

Point Source Emissions and Saline Aquifer Distribution: (Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United States and Canada, 2008)

Population Density in 2000: (World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment, 2005)