CUSP Focused Projects
The current CUSP projects are focused on developing the following topics:
1. CCUS Feasibility Study
Characterization of CO2 storage potential in Harquahala basin, western central Arizona
Brian F. Gootee
Arizona Geological Survey
Feasibility Study of a Potential CCUS Project in Colorado
Ali Tura
YANRUI DAISY NING
Colorado School of Mines
From Site to State: Design of an Integrated CCS Operation in a Complex Geological
Structure in Osage
County, Oklahoma
Rouzbeh Moghanloo
Oklahoma University
Planning Amongst Uncertainty: Designing CCS Infrastructure Resilient to Capture, Transport, and Storage Uncertainty
Sean Yaw & Richard Middleton
Montana State University & Carbon Solution
Laying the Cornerstones of a Regional Storage Hub in California
Tony Kovscek
Stanford University
CCS at the Iron Mountain Iron Mine and Direct Reduced Iron Processing Plant, Southern Utah
Brian McPherson
University of Utah
2. EPA Class VI - MRV - 45Q
Targa: Carbon Utilization and Storage Partnership of the Southwest Project
Matthew Eals & George El-Kaseeh
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
3. CCUS in geothermal reservoirs
Regional-Scale Assessment of CO2 Geological Storage in Sedimentary Basin Geothermal Reservoirs of Nevada
Steven Bacon & Jonathan Ogland-Hand
Desert Research Institute & Carbon Solutions
4. CCUS to produce 'Blue' Hydrogen
Site Characterization for CO2 storage to Support Escalante Hydrogen Power Plant Project
Dana Ulmer-Scholle & Sai Wang
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
5. CCUS in Basalts
Derisking CO2 Mineralization Storage in Basalt Reservoirs
Todd Schaef
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
6. CO2 Plume Detection
Laboratory Feasibility Study for Eventual Field Deployment of a Downhole Source Tomographic Design for CO2 Plume Detection
Kevin Mccormack
University of Utah
