How Legacy Data Can Open New Potential for Carbon Capture and Storage in South Africa

Who wants North Sea CCS, and why? Assessing differences in opinion between oil and gas industry respondents and wider energy and environmental stakeholders

“…Castrejón et al, 2018;Nguyen-Trinh & Ha-Duong, 2015). Again, however, any enthusiasm for global CCS based on expertise garnered in well-established oil and gas producing regions needs to be tempered with the acknowledgement (as raised by our respondents) that CCS applications in emerging economy contexts may face issues relating to higher water consumption and different climatic or geological characteristics, for which less data may exist (Davids et al, 2020;Pérez Sánchez et al, 2019).…”

Comments on Singh et al. (2022) ‘Marine seismic surveys for hydrocarbon exploration: What’s at stake?’

“…The Council for Geoscience in collaboration with industry partners and government compiled an atlas in 2010 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide in South Africa 2 , which identified possible onshore and offshore repositories within South Africa conforming to the prerequisites for carbon capture and storage. Since the publication of this atlas, research has expanded on three potential storage basins, namely the onshore Zululand and Algoa Basins and the offshore Durban Basin [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] , with academic research into the viability of the offshore Orange Basin currently ongoing. CO 2 capture and storage is globally recognised as one of the key technologies in a suite of emission reduction strategies to combat anthropogenic climate change.…”