CARBON SEQUESTRATION

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE BURIAL of carbon dioxide underground has been examined by an international workshop on reducing CO2 air emissions convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. It debated good practice such as International Energy Agency sponsorship of projects dealing with the capture, transport and underground storage of CO2. The meeting also considered the underground storage of CO2 stripped from natural gas production in Norway's Statoil's "Sleipner" operation in the North Sea. Here, CO2 is re-injected into a saline aquifer, with more than ...


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