We will look at five ways in which industrial processes might be made less carbon intensive through CCS.

All five options store CO₂ onshore or offshore in a saline aquifer or depleted gas field:

• Post-combustion coal fired power plant

• Precombustion integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) coal fired power plant

• Refinery, steel, ammonia or cement plant

• Removal of CO₂ from natural gas

• Biomass power plant

Onshore or offshore CO₂ stores are most likely in saline aquifers or depleted gas fields.
(Source: World Coal Institute.)

• Carbon capture and storage (CCS) research
• Advanced seismic techniques
• CO₂ storage Sleipner
• UK CO₂
• Clean coal exploitation and unconventional gas

• OIBC 2007 CCS Interview
  Dr Sam Holloway (BGS)
• BBC CCS Interview
  Dr Mike Stephenson (BGS)

• UK CO₂GIS

• UK Study (BERR report)
• Ireland Study Report
• SACS Best Practice Manual
• Sequestration: the underground storage of carbon dioxide
• CO₂ storage capacity estimation: methodology and gaps
• IPCC special report
• Southern North Sea case study
• East Irish Sea case study