A New Look at Carbon Capture and Storage Opportunities

are found in some of these formations, reasonable CO2 storage volumes could be achievable, though The summary of the results of the application of this finding target areas and formations of sufficiently high approach for the target formations investigated is shown permeability may be a challenge. [...] The limits of the isopach and structure maps that were used as inputs in the capacity equation define the limits of the capacity map, which is different for each formation depending on the unique regional distribution. [...] Figure 3 shows the regional distribution of the Pennsylvania fields in the six target formations, most of which are in the northwestern part of the state. [...] The data used to develop the maps were refined to illustrate the quality of the storage capacity in each of the formations. [...] This approach consisted of the following steps: ■ Total capacity in each of the various capacity ranges (indicated for the Lockport case in Figure 4) was estimated by multiplying the area (square miles) times the capacity (million metric tons per square mile) in the capacity range.