Projects

MIDCARB - Midcontinent Interactive Digital Carbon Atlas and Relational Database

by Nathan K. Eaton and John A. Rupp

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PROJECT SUMMARY

MIDCARB is a project that will build a digital spacial database for five states to help characterize the amount of CO2 available for sequestration, the geologic security and safety of a sequestration site, the long-term effects on a geologic reservoir, and the cost of compression and transport of CO2 between source and sequestration site.

MIDCARB will organize and enhance the critical information about CO2 sources, and develop the Technology needed to access, query, model, analyze, display, and distribute natural-resource data related to carbon management.

Options for carbon dioxide sequestration, highlighting secondary benefits of various sequestration techniques.

The project will focus on compiling and analyzing geologic data needed to define and characterize geologic reservoirs suitable for the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide in a five-state, mid-continent region. Major products will be distributed via the MIDCARB Web site and will include an interactive Internet map server (IMS) Web site, queryable relational databases describing major carbon sources, and links to other detailed geologic datasets maintained by the five contributing state geological surveys.

MIDCARB is being constructed by a consortium of five mid-continent state geological surveys: Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, and Ohio. The MIDCARB project is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The term of this ongoing project is from January 2001 to December 2003.

For additional information regarding this ongoing project, contact John A. Rupp (e-mail: rupp@indiana.edu) at the Indiana Geological Survey, 611 N. Walnut Grove, Bloomington, IN 47405.