Integrated infrastructure for CO2 transport and storage in the west Mediterranean

• Published in: Energy procedia 2011, Vol.4, p.2440-2447
• Main Authors: Boavida, D., Carneiro, J.F., Ramírez, A., Martinez, R., Czernichowski-Lauriol, I., Tosato, G., Rimi, A., Zarhloule, Y., Simões, S., Cabal, H.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: CCS; CO2 storage; CO2 transport; Collaborative project; COMET; Integrated infrastructures
• ISSN: 1876-6102; 1876-6102
• DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.138

COMET–Integrated infrastructure for CO2 transport and storage in the west Mediterranean–is a join research Project co-financed by the European Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), which started on January 2010. Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) is a CO2 abatement option that can contribute substantially to the ambitious targets needed for climate stabilization. The significant role foreseen for CCS is based on several conditions, like the availability of a CO2 transport infrastructure or construction of such an infrastructure within the near future. The need to have a suitable transport infrastructure, its implications over time and its related costs have only more recently attracting the attention and getting priority in the R&D agenda of the European Countries. This is partly because research on CO2 transport and storage needs to be realized at the local-regional level, unlike the technological research on CO2 capture which is not country dependent. In this context, COMET focuses on assessing CO2 transport and storage in a geographical area that until now has received little attention: The West Mediterranean area, specifically, the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco.