It is undisputed that human beings are affecting the global carbon cycle. Fossil fuels (coal, crude oil, natural gas) are used for energy, heating, transport and industry.more
At the pilot site in Ketzin, 40 km west of Berlin, national and European projects coordinated by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ) have advanced our scientific understanding of how to store CO2 geologically, and researched the processes of underground CO2 injection and migration.more
Brochure "Subsurface Storage of CO2 (Unterirdische Speicherung von CO2)" (in German only)
Infografics of the CO2 Storage at the pilot site in Ketzin
Short films on the geological Storage of CO2
Report in the GFZ journal "System Erde - Geo-Energy" (in German only)
Brochure "Underground Storage of CO2"
Report in the GFZ-Journal "System Erde - Scientific Drilling" (in German only)The CO2 project has been successfully completed. For ongoing information about the site, see the publication list.
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moreThe German Bundestag is debating the amendment to the Carbon Dioxide Storage Act (20/11900, 20/12717) in its first reading.
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was a follow-up project that has seamlessly continued with the previous research and development work conducted at the Ketzin pilot site. The project was funded by the BMBF (the German Ministry for Education and Research), by industry partners from Germany and from other countries; by CLIMIT (a Norwegian R & D program ) and by the GFZ Potsdam. Within the project, engineers and scientists from the fields of geology, geophysics, geochemistry and modeling were involved.
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