WESTCARB–Sacramento-San Joaquin Basin
The West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB) is drilling a deep well in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Basin, California, to characterize two potential CO2 storage areas. The first is a depleted natural gas reservoir and the second an underlying saline formation.
Drilling began on 1 December and 0n 21 December the drillers were 7000 feet deep in a mixed sandstone-shale unit.
For daily drilling reports and graphic, visit their Drilling Progress page.
Mike Conway (24 December 2011)
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