2.1 Site screening criteria

Site screening represents the coarsest scale of assessment with the least site specific details. Depending on the size of area in question, regional sedimentary Basins assessment, trans-border Basins or smaller parts of Sedimentary basins are taken into consideration in the following sequence (Chadwick et al., 2006; Kaldi and Gibson-Poole, 2008):

  • Identify sedimentary basins or smaller areas (sandstone and to lesser extent carbonate sediments in the case of storage in saline aquifers, coal basins)
  • Review the characteristics of sedimentary basins or smaller areas (e.g. tectonic setting, faulting, hydrodynamic regimes, extent and thickness of perspective sedimentary formations)
  • Qualitative and (if possible) quantitative ranking of sedimentary basins or smaller areas in order of suitability.
 

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2.1.1 Saline aquifer

It is essential to acquire geological data sufficient to evaluate the Formations and Structures (Fig. 2-1) against these...

2.1.2 Hydrocarbon fields

Depleted or depleting hydrocarbon fields usually have a long production record and COme with a great deal of knowledge a...

2.1.3 Coal beds

In the case of COal fields, the screening criteria are not as elaborated as the criteria for saline Aquifers and hydroca...