Development of a Carbon Management Geographic Information System for the United States
Project # 41622

Primary Performing Organization
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This project will address the economics of the proximity of large carbon dioxide (CO₂) sources to potential long-term geological storage sites in the United States. The work performed begins with the basic premise that to minimize sequestration’s costs, large point sources of CO₂ and their storage reservoirs should be in close proximity.

The software being developed in this project will permit rapid visualization of the relationship between CO₂ sources and potential sequestration sites, and thus ultimately aid in the development of meaningful sequestration demonstration projects.

The project team is collaborating with the ongoing National Carbon Sequestration Database and Geographic Information System (NATCARB) project as well as the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership projects. The primary use of the Carbon Management GIS will be as a system analysis tool that can be used on a local, regional, or national scale.

Specific project objectives include the following:

• To define in detail the GIS data requirements, the types of analyses that can be conducted, and the forms of output produced;
• To identify data sources and convert this data into a form accessible by the GIS;
• To develop a series of scripts (computer code) to allow easy manipulation and data analysis; and

The system will be used to perform analyses for the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership projects.

Contact:
Project Manager: Dawn Deel, dawn.deel@netl.doe.gov

Related Papers and Publications:

• Development of a Carbon Management GIS Fact Sheet