RECOPOL

Project Overview

The RECOPOL project is an EU co-funded combined research and demonstration project to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of storing CO2 permanently in subsurface coal seams. The Upper Silesian Basin in Poland is the location of the pilot installation developed for methane gas production from coal beds while simultaneously storing CO2 underground. The produced methane could become an alternative fuel that can be locally produced in Silesia. This installation is the very first of its kind in Europe. The project began on the 1st November 2001, and injection of 760 tonnes of CO2 was carried out between 2004 and 2005. CO2 was brought in by trucks and stored on site in liquid form (at -20 º C) in two containers. The CO2 was heated and then injected into underground coal seams at a depth of 1050-1090 m, several hundreds of meters below the deepest mine workings of the Silesia mine.

Project Type

Storage.

Location

Kaniow, Poland.

Type of CO₂ Storage Operation

Enhanced Coal Bed Methane.

Major Stakeholders

TNO-NITG - Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience
CMI - Central Mining Institute, Poland
RWTH Aachen, Germany
TUD - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
GAZONOR
DBI GUT
CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
IFP - Institut Francais du Petrole
Air Liquide

Project Scale

Micro Pilot Test Project.

Project Start Year: 2003

	2004/2005

	1 t/d
	760 t
	760 t

Project Cost

€3.5million.

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