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PRESSURE INTERFERENCE EVALUATION TO SUPPORT STORAGE RESOURCE PLANNING IN THE PLAINS CO₂ REDUCTION (PCOR) PARTNERSHIP REGION

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports carbon capture and storage (CCS) as one approach in a portfolio of strategies to reduce the release of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions to the atmosphere from large stationary sources. As part of this support, the DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory has been working with Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership initiatives through the Carbon Transport and Storage Program to identify prospective sites within the United States for the geologic storage of CO₂. Recommendations for future work are focused on describing the relationship between the magnitude of pressure interference and the resulting impact on CO2 storage capacity. The pressure-increase threshold used to define "interference" can then be chosen to represent the smallest substantial impact on storage capacity among multiple injection projects.