Objective
The ECO2 project sets out to assess the risks associated with the storage of CO2 below the seabed. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is regarded as a key technology for the reduction of CO2 emissions from power plants and other sources at the European and international level. The EU will hence support a selected portfolio of demonstration projects to promote, at industrial scale, the implementation of CCS in Europe. Several of these projects aim to store CO2 below the seabed. However, little is known about the short-term and long-term impacts of CO2 storage on marine ecosystems even though CO2 has been stored sub-seabed in the North Sea (Sleipner) for over 13 years and for one year in the Barents Sea (Snøhvit). Against this background, the proposed ECO2 project will assess the likelihood of leakage and impact of leakage on marine ecosystems. In order to do so ECO2 will study a sub-seabed storage site in operation since 1996 (Sleipner, 90 m water depth), a recently opened site (Snøhvit, 2008, 330 m water depth), and a potential storage site located in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea (B3 field site, 80 m water depth) covering the major geological settings to be used for the storage of CO2. Novel monitoring techniques will be applied to detect and quantify the fluxes of formation fluids, natural gas, and CO2 from storage sites and to develop appropriate and effective monitoring strategies. Field work at storage sites will be supported by modelling and laboratory experiments and complemented by process and monitoring studies at natural CO2 seeps that serve as analogues for potential CO2 leaks at storage sites. ECO2 will also investigate the perception of marine CCS in the public and develop effective means to disseminate the project results to stakeholders and policymakers. Finally, a best practice guide for the management of sub-seabed CO2 storage sites will be developed applying the precautionary principle and valuing the costs for monitoring and remediation.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels fossil energy natural gas
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
- engineering and technology environmental engineering carbon capture engineering
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FP7-OCEAN-2010
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24148 Kiel
Germany
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18119 ROSTOCK
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24148 KIEL
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PL1 3DH Plymouth
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0579 Oslo
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SN2 1EU SWINDON WILTSHIRE
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5020 Bergen
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80539 MUNCHEN
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54296 TRIER
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9019 Tromso
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10117 Berlin
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27570 BREMERHAVEN
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18119 ROSTOCK
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00185 Roma
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34010 Sgonico-Trieste
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70174 Stuttgart
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4035 Stavanger
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1363 HOVIK
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SO17 1BJ SOUTHAMPTON
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24105 KIEL
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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9000 GENT
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EH14 4AS Edinburgh
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405 30 Goeteborg
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2595 DA DEN HAAG
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1755 LE PETTEN
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29280 Plouzane
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80-309 GDANSK
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80-718 Gdansk
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