ASIATODAY.ID, JAKARTA – The United States Geological Survey (USGS) stated that Indonesia is the ‘golden place’ for the Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) project.
This is a great opportunity for Indonesia to contribute to efforts to overcome climate change by capturing and separating CO2 gas and reinjecting it to be stored in rock layers below the surface.
“CCS technology is not something new. The concept is more or less the same as upstream oil and gas activities, namely the need for reservoir rock, either in the form of an oil and gas reservoir or a saline aquifer which becomes a place to store CO2 and then cover rock which traps the CO2 gas that has been injected so that it does not move. or migrate anywhere,” said Head of the Geological Agency of the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Muhammad Wafid in Bandung, Friday, July 26 2024.
Therefore, continued Wafid, the government through Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Regulation Number 2 of 2023 has issued regulations regarding CCS/CCUS in upstream oil and gas business activities. This regulation is certainly a breath of fresh air for upstream oil and gas contractors and other stakeholders to be able to freely apply CCS/CCUS technology in Indonesia.
Wafid said that the Geological Agency has played an important role in the exploration of rock formations that form oil and gas reservoir rocks. Now the Geological Agency is faced with a new challenge to find and record rock formations that have great potential for storing carbon.
“Currently the Geological Agency is carrying out an inventory to calculate the potential for Carbon Capture Storage in Indonesia, especially in frontier sedimentary basins where so far there has been no significant upstream oil and gas activity,” he explained.
“Systematic field data collection, which started with data collection on the island of Java last year, then this year activities were carried out on the island of Sumatra and will continue to be continued to other regions in Indonesia. It is hoped that it will be able to complete the data related to the potential of CCS in Indonesia, which in “Finally, it will be displayed in the Indonesian CCS Potential Atlas,” said Wafid.
Meanwhile, Geological Survey Center Earth Investigator, Geological Agency Andy Setyo Wibowo said, CCS on surface underground geological formations is not the only way to reduce Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions but can be the best alternative in terms of capacity, safety, cost and time.
“CCS technology is not something new in Indonesia and it is very possible to immediately implement CCS in subsurface geological formations and Indonesian sedimentary basins that are not yet producing, which has great potential as a carbon storage/CCS geological resource,” concluded Andy. (AT Network)
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