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Ketzin Fact Sheet: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Project

Company/Alliance: CO2Sink

Location: Ketzin, Germany

Start Date: 2008 (2 year Pilot)

Size: 0.03 Mt/Yr

CO2 Source: Hydrogen Production

Storage: Sandstone reservoir

Motivation/Economics: Monitoring CO2 in the subsurface and feasibility of sequestration. To provide information for future policy making in EU.

Comments: Test site is close to metropolitan area for showcasing CO2 storage. Ketzin site has been previously used for industrial waste gas disposal. Drilling began February 2007.

Project Link: Ketzin Project Web site

Other Sources and Press Release:
Aims of Ketzin Sequestration project (June 2007)
EU Press release on Ketzin's opening (June 2007)
Ketzin Project structure
Ketzin trial opens (June 2007)

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