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Guidelines for licensing CO₂ storage operations around the globe

Energy Research Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Mike Carpenter and Todd Flach

Det Norske Veritas, Hoevik, Norway

Kim Zink-Jørgensen, Peter Schröder and Nils-Peter Christensen

GEUS, Copenhagen, Denmark

Brendan Beck

IEA Greenhouse Gas Programme, London, U.K.

Andy Chatwick

British Geological Survey, Nottingham, U.K.

Marc Lescanne and Nicolas Aimard

Total, Pau, France

Corresponding author: groenenberg{at}ecn.nl

In January 2008, the European Commission proposed a directive on the geologic storage of CO₂ in the EU. Simultaneous to the development of the directive by the EC, the CO₂ ReMoVe project, funded by FP6 and industry, wrote a draft contribution to future guidelines for licensing of CO₂ storage in saline reservoirs and depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs. This document contains detailed checklists for operators and authorities in each of the stages of a licensing procedure for a CO₂ storage operation. The draft guidelines will be updated as results from monitoring ongoing CO₂ storage operations become available. They may serve as a contribution to the regulation of CO₂ storage anywhere in the world, and may be also be of use in evaluating the EU directive in the future.