Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership – Deployment Phase

Primary Performing Organization
Southern States Energy Board

The Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB) is one of seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSP) created by DOE in 2003 as part of a national plan to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. 

The Deployment Phase will be the third of a three phase program.  Proceedings in the Deployment Phase (2008 – 2017) will be an extension of the characterization and validation phases and will demonstrate that carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture, storage, and transportation can be achieved safely, permanently and economically at a large scale in a region composed of the 11 southeastern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, plus counties in Kentucky and West Virginia. 

The map below shows the geographic location of SECARB’s Deployment Phase activities.

SECARB will adhere to a vigorous monitoring, measurement, and verification program during the 10-year Deployment Phase project in conjunction with a large-volume injection test in the lower Tuscaloosa Formation – a key component of a larger regional group of similar formations called the Gulf Coast Wedge.  The broad purpose of the project is to assess the viability of injecting a million metric tons of CO₂ per year into this Gulf Coast saline formation.  If this test is successful, the benefit of the project will be to prove that the Gulf Coast Wedge can accommodate storage of 1 billion tons of CO₂ for approximately 300 to 1,200 years.  These volumes would be sufficient to support commercialization of this CO₂ sink for the region’s annual stationary-point source emissions.

Contact:
Project Manager:  Bruce Lani, bruce.lani@netl.doe.gov.

Related Papers and Publications:

• SECARB Deployment Fact Sheet