“…Some of the industrial-scale projects which involve CO 2 injection in deep saline aquifers include the Sleipner project in the North Sea (Arts et al, 2008;Chadwick et al, 2004;Torp and Gale, 2004), the In Salah project in Algeria (Iding and Ringrose, 2009;Morris et al, 2011;Rutqvist et al, 2009;Torp and Gale, 2004), the Gorgon project in Australia (Hosa et al, 2011;Michael et al, 2010), the Snøhvit project in Norway (Eiken et al, 2011;Tremosa et al, 2014), and the Illinois Basin Decatur project in the Midwest region of the United States (Barnes et al, 2009;Bowen et al, 2011;Leetaru and McBride, 2009;Medina et al, 2011;Person et al, 2010). A few of these saline aquifers are reported to have large storage capacities exceeding 100 Mega tonnes (Hosa et al, 2011;Medina et al, each layer of the formation at the corresponding formation temperature.…”