Report: The Value of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) | Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (GCCSI), Alex Townsend Nabeela Raji, Alex Zapantis
Summary:
- The deployment of negative emissions technologies used in CCS will offer new employment opportunities, particularly in the growing of biomass feedstock, and the supply chains for waste biomass from agriculture and forestry. Reworking these technologies for use in CCS becomes more cost-effective and keeps the industries in these businesses, just in a sustainable matter.
- The construction of large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities are large infrastructure projects which require a substantial construction workforce. The numbers vary by facility type and construction stage, but generally involve thousands of people involved in the construction of a CCS facility at any point in time.
- These jobs are temporary, lasting only for the construction phase of the project development, but provide employment opportunities for a mix of low- and high-skilled workers.
- CCS creates long-lasting job opportunities:
- Operation jobs within the CCS facility last throughout the duration of the CCS plant’s operation.
- Although the number of employees is smaller than during the construction phase, these jobs are long-lasting and employ people with different experiences.
Figure 1: Net zero targets drive new momentum for CCUS | International Energy Agency (IEA)
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- CO2-ECBM: A review of its status and global potential
- Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide in Coal with Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery: A Review
- The Allison Unit CO2-ECBM Pilot – A Reservoir and Economic Analysis
- The Tiffany Unit N2 – ECBM Pilot: A Reservoir Modeling Study
- Southwestern Regional Partnership For Carbon Sequestration (Phase 2) Pump Canyon CO2- ECBM/Sequestration Demonstration, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
- Field Test of CO2 Injection and Storage in Lignite Coal Seam in North Dakota
- Carbon Storage Atlas: Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium
- Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB) Black Warrior Basin Coal Seam Project
- Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB) Central Appalachian Coal Seam Project
- CO2 Sequestration in Unmineable Coal with Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Recovery
- Monitoring CO2 Plume Migration for a Carbon Storage-Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery Test in Central Appalachia
- Alberta Multiwell Micro-Pilot Testing for CBM Properties, Enhanced Methane Recovery, and CO2 Storage Potential
- Coalbed Methane, A Fossil Fuel Resource with the Potential for Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions – the Alberta, Canada Program 1996 -2009: A Summary
- Field Experiment of CO2-ECBMR in Ishikari Basin of Japan
- Description of a CO2 enhanced coal bed methane field trial using a multi-lateral horizontal well
- Enhanced Coalbed Methane (ECBM) Field Test at South Qinshui Basin, Shanxi Province, China
- Report and modeling of the MOVECBM field tests in Poland and Slovenia
- Welldog Carbon Injection 2017