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Basin Montages

The development of the National Carbon Mapping and Infrastructure Plan included the technical ranking of Australia’s sedimentary basins based on their suitability for CO2 storage.  Basin scores and the evidence supporting the ranking are documented in this suite of basin montages, for those considered to be either suitable or strategically important. These montages were prepared by Geoscience Australia.

Disclaimer

The purpose of the montages is to aid a high level evaluation of the geological storage potential of Australia’s sedimentary basins for future CO2 emissions.  The evaluations are based on core analysis and other data derived from Geoscience Australia and other sources.  However due to time constraints it has not been possible to carry out the detailed evaluation of the data which will be required for the next phase of analysis.  In this exercise, we sought to recognise a range of characteristics within each basin by identifying three sets of parameters at different locations and depths in the basin.  The intent is to generate an indication of a range of storage capacity and potential injection rates.  These capacities and rates are being used in high level reservoir modelling work to generate injection tariffs and capacity estimates.  All of this work feeds into a process that provides indicative, conceptual transport and storage tariffs for CO2 emissions captured in various parts of Australia.  This ‘top down’, simplistic approach seeks to describe the magnitude and range of potential costs for transport and storage in Australia, at a ‘conceptual’ level of accuracy.  Clearly, any final investment decision would call on an increased understanding and level of accuracy through the usual project development process. In this regard it is emphasised that this work is general and imprecise in nature and that readers are not advised to rely on it in making any financial, engineering or other decisions.  In such circumstances readers must make their own inquiries and rely on their own, and their advisers’, skills and research.

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Basins (in alphabetical order)

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