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CCS world projects: Ketzin

Project Overview

The CO2SINK project aims to gain a better understanding and greater knowledge of CO2 storage techniques, through injection of CO2 into a saline aquifer, and through the development of an in situ laboratory for CO2 storage. Approximately 30,000 tonnes of CO2 will be injected into a saline aquifer, which underlies a redundant gas storage reservoir between 600 and 700m, near Ketzin, west of Berlin, Germany. The project began in April 2004, and injection is anticipated to begin in 2008.

Project Type

Storage

Location

Ketzin, Brandenburg, Germany

Type of CO2 Storage Operation

Onshore saline aquifer depleted gas field

Major Stakeholders

GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
G.E.O.S. Freiberg Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Mineral and Energy Economic Research Institute, Polish Acad. Sciences
Det Norske Veritas AS
STATOIL ASA
Shell International Exploration and Production B.V.
Institut für Wasserbau, Universität Stuttgart
VIBROMETRIC Oy COSMA
University of Kent
Uppsala University
RWE Power AG
IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme
Vattenfall Europe Generation AG

Project Scale

Pilot

Project Start Year: 2007

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underway  
underway
 
2008/2010  
 

injectionrate_header
approx daily 100 t/d
approx annual Unknown
total sequestration 60 kt

  Additional Data  
  Depth of Injection Interval (average) Unknown
  Type of Reservoir Sandstone
  Type of Seal Unknown
  Distance Source to Sink Unknown

Method of CO2 Delivery

Truck in liquid form

Injected Gas Composition

Unknown

Project Cost

€15million

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