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Resource capacity and reserve capacity

The concepts of resource and reserve have been borrowed from the
hydrocarbon industry to refer to the total CO 2 potential storage capacity
provided by a formation, and to the practical storage capacity, respec-
tively. Many of the same limiting factors that make hydrocarbon reserves
a fraction of hydrocarbon resources also make CO 2 storage reserves a
small fraction of the total CO 2 storage resources. For example, the eco-
nomics of the system are critical; today, without any signifi cant policy or
economic incentive for capturing and storing CO 2 , there is effectively no
storage reserve anywhere. But this narrow economic criterion for defi ning
reserve does not refl ect the potential future value of geological carbon

World - Koide 92
World - van der Meer 92
World - IEA 92
World - Hendriks & Blok 93
World - Hendriks & Blok 94
World - IEA 94
World - Hendriks 94
World - Hendriks & Blok 95
World - Turkenburg 97
World - IPCC 01/Am 00
World - ECOFYS & TNO-NTG 02
World - Bruani 02
World 1 - GEOSEQ
World - Beecy & Kuuskra 01
World 3 - IEA
World - Dooley & Frieman
World - ECOFYS
Europe - van der Straaten
Europe - Boe et al.
North Western Europe - Joule report
Western Europe - Dooley & Friedman
Eastern Europe - Dooley & Friedman
Former Soviet Union - Dooley & Friedman
Combined Europe - Dooley & Friedman
Western Europe - ECOFYS
Eastern Europe - ECOFYS
Total Europe - ECOFYS
USA - Bergman and Winter
Mt. Simon Sandstone (Ohio)
Mt. Simon Sandstone (Mid West USA)
Mt. Simon Sandstone
USA - Dooley & Friedman
USA - ECOFYS
Alberta Basin (Canada) - Total
Alberta Basin (Canada) - Viking Fm
Canada - Dooley & Friedman
Canada - ECOFYS
Australia - Bradshaw et al., 2002
Australia/NZ - Dooley & Friedman
Australia - ECOFYS
Japan - ECOFYS
Japan - Dooley & Friedman
Japan

World: 100-200,000 Gt

Europe: 1-2499 Gt

USA: 2-3747 Gt

Canada: 2-4000 Gt

Australia: 4-740 Gt

Japan: 0-80 Gt

1 10 100 1,000 10,000 100,000

Gt CO 2

Figure 10.3.1 Storage capacity
Capacity assessments have been made all around the world using various different
approaches and assumptions, the result of which is large variability and uncertainty in
capacity assessment. The dotted line gives the estimated worldwide capacity. Figure
reproduced from Bradshaw et al. [10.29], with permission from Elsevier.