Understanding CCUS: Carbon capture, utilization and storage Source: Global CCS institute The injection and storage of CO2 has been working safely and effectively for 45 years. In fact, With abundant underground storage resources at our disposal, storage remains the easiest and most logical CO2 mitigation solution. There are many similar geological systems throughout the world that are capable of retaining centuries’ worth of CO2 captured from industrial processes. Although geologic storage of gases occurs naturally and has been used safely by industry for many decades, it remains a challenge to describe this process to the public. Fortunately, there are many locations globally that have formations with these characteristics; most are in vast geological features called sedimentary basins. Almost all oil and gas production is associated with sedimentary basins, and the types of geologic formations that trap oil and gas (and also naturally occurring CO2) are similar to tho
