Safety and monitoring

Soil gas measurement Source: BGR

The basic idea of CCS is to return the CO₂ which has been produced by fossil fuel combustion back to where it came from originally: the deep geological underground – rather than the athmosphere. To have an effect on climate and to prevent interaction between the surplus CO₂ and the biosphere, the gas needs to remain safely underground for at least 10,000 years.
To understand the natural soil-gas balance and the effect of CO₂ emanations on the local biosphere, BGR investigates natural CO₂ emanations from the Laacher See maar, the Andernach cold water geysir, and various volcanic fields in Italy. BGR also takes an active part in the monitoring of numerous pilote CO₂ storage sites.

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Current projects:

• ENOS ENabling Onshore CO₂ Storage in Europe
  

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Past projects:

• CASTOR European CASTOR project on the capture and geological storage of CO₂
• CO2GEONET European Network of Excellence on Geological Storage of CO₂
• NASCENT Natural Analogues for the Study of CO₂ in the Geological Environment
• CO2ReMoVe Research on CO₂ Monitoring and Verification
• CLEAN CO₂ Large-Scale Enhanced Gas Recovery in the Altmark Natural Gas Field
• MONACO Monitoring-Ansatz für geologische CO₂-Speicherung unter Verwendung eines hierarchischen Untersuchungskonzeptes