BGR Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe

Safety and monitoring

Soil gas measurementSoil gas measurement Source: BGR

The basic idea of CCS is to return the CO2 which has been produced by fossil fuel combustion back to where it came from originally: the deep geological underground – rather than the athmosphere. To have an effect on climate and to prevent interaction between the surplus CO2 and the biosphere, the gas needs to remain safely underground for at least 10,000 years.
To understand the natural soil-gas balance and the effect of CO2 emanations on the local biosphere, BGR investigates natural CO2 emanations from the Laacher See maar, the Andernach cold water geysir, and various volcanic fields in Italy. BGR also takes an active part in the monitoring of numerous pilote CO2 storage sites.

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Current projects:


Past projects:

  • CASTOR European CASTOR project on the capture and geological storage of CO2
  • CO2GEONET European Network of Excellence on Geological Storage of CO2
  • NASCENT Natural Analogues for the Study of CO2 in the Geological Environment
  • CO2ReMoVe Research on CO2 Monitoring and Verification
  • CLEAN CO2 Large-Scale Enhanced Gas Recovery in the Altmark Natural Gas Field
  • MONACO Monitoring-Ansatz für geologische CO2-Speicherung unter Verwendung eines hierarchischen Untersuchungskonzeptes

Contact 1:

    
Dr. Franz May
Phone: +49 (0)511-643-3784

Contact 2:

    
Dr. Gabriela von Goerne
Phone: +49-(0)511-643-3101

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