METSTOR: A GIS to look for potential CO2 storage zones in France

Abstract

International audienceThe METSTOR project offers a methodology to look for potentially interesting CO2 storage areas in France at the initial stage, before the "site selection" step. Our tool, embodied in a Geographic Information System, is based on an interactive map of CO2 storage capacities. Other relevant information layers are included. The geographic layers are complemented with a series of online technical notices. It seems to be the first open online GIS that offers policy makers, businesses and the public at large an integrated access to that necessary information. Our prototype, limited mainly to the Paris Basin, is released online at www.metstor.fr

National corridors for climate change mitigation: managing industrial CO2emissions in France

“…Overall, France has three sedimentary basins; the Paris Basin is the largest and includes the Dogger and Trias aquifers as candidate CO 2 storage reservoirs. A few studies have sought to estimate the CO 2 storage capacities of these aquifers, one of which estimated that the Dogger could store 13.6 GtCO 2 and that the Trias aquifer could store 15.5 GtCO 2 …”

“…In addition to the hub at Le Havre, CO 2 could be transported onshore to locations atop the Parisian Basin. We use effective storage capacities that are less than 10% of previous estimates: 1.1 GtCO 2 in total over our three Trias injection locations and 900 MtCO 2 in total over our three Dogger injection locations. We used the six potential injection locations, as shown in Table . Offshore .…”

Environmental concern-based site screening of carbon dioxide geological storage in China

“…This multi-criteria method was applied on the PICORE study area by a GIS tool. The GIS tool was also used in the METSTOR project in France to look for potential CO 2 storage zones based on an interactive map of the CO 2 storage capacities of various sites 61 . Mathias, et al .…”