A successful MVA effort will enable sequestration project developers to ensure human health and safety and prevent damage to the host ecosystem. The goal is to provide sufficient information and safeguards to allow developers to obtain permits for sequestration projects. MVA also seeks to support the development of an accounting to validate the retention of CO2 in deep geologic formation that approaches 100 percent, contributing to the economic viability of sequestration projects Finally, MVA should provide improved information and feedback to sequestration practitioners, resulting in accelerated technologic progress. DOE’s Core R&D activities for geologic carbon sequestration and subsequent monitoring activities are generally divided into deep conventional reservoirs (saline formations, depleted oil and gas fields, and.
