CO2 BURIAL TEST LAUNCHED IN GERMANY
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded scientists, coordinated by Germany's GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, have launched drilling work to inject 60,000 tonnes of CO2 into a saline aquifer more than 700 metres underground near Ketzin, west of Berlin, then monitor how the gas behaves over two years. They want to examine whether buried carbon dioxide leaches to the surface, as part of the EU CO2SINK project investigating sequestration.
EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded scientists, coordinated by Germany's GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, have launched drilling work to inject 60,000 tonnes of CO2 into a saline aquifer more than 700 metres underground near Ketzin, west of Berlin, then monitor how the gas behaves over two years. They want to examine whether buried carbon dioxide leaches to the surface, as part of the EU CO2SINK project investigating sequestration.
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