MGSC Decatur

Project Overview

The MGSC, ISGS, and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) will work together on this carbon sequestration project, which will involve the capture and storage of carbon dioxide from ADM’s ethanol plant in Decatur, Illinois. The project is designed to confirm the ability of the Mt. Simon Sandstone, a major regional saline reservoir in Illinois, to accept and store 1Mt of CO2 over a period of three years. The safety and effectiveness of the storage will be monitored by the MGSC through an extensive Monitoring, Mitigation and Verification (MMV) program. The project will begin in spring 2008 with the drilling of the injection well, with environmental monitoring beginning in October 2008 to collect background information over a year’s time. The sequestration and injection of carbon dioxide is scheduled to begin in October 2009 and should conclude in 2012.

Project Type

Storage.

Location

Decatur, Illinois, U.S.A.

Type of CO2 Storage Operation

Onshore saline aquifer

Major Stakeholders

Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC)
Illinois State Geological Survey
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)

Project Scale

Demonstration.

Project Start Year: 2008

	2009/2012

	1 kt/d
	330 kt/a
	1 Mt

Project Cost

Total US$91,826,766. US DOE US$70,353,741, non-DOE sources US$21,473,025.

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