There are several large scale carbon capture and storage demonstration projects where on average 1 million tonnes of CO2 per facility have been captured during industrial processes and safely sequestered undgeround  Sleipner Norway since 1996, Weyburn, Canada since 2000, and in Salah, Algeria since 2004 – all without incident.

Additionally, over 30 million tonnes a year are presently being injected underground at CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery operations in the United States. These operations are located primarily in Texas and Canada and have been going on for 40 years. 

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Carbon dioxide has been safely transported via pipeline and pumped underground for 40 years by energy companies in Canada, the United States and internationally. In the past this CO2 mostly came from naturally occurring underground CO2 reservoirs and was transported then re-injected in oil fields to perform Enhanced Oil Recovery in locations thousands of miles away. The HECA facility will capture CO2 from a power plant instead of allowing it to be vented into the atmosphere. It will then be transported 5 miles away via secure pipeline to a nearby oil field where the CO2 will be injected over 6,000 ft underground beneath a thick layer of impervious cap-rock where it will become sequestered.

Over 100 CO2 injection projects are operating today in the United States today where the CO2 travels through thousands of miles of piplines. CO2 has been safely injected underground into formation that naturally trap it underground in the almost macroscopic pore spaces in sub-surface rock layers. CO₂is a naturally occurring gas that exists in the air we breath and beneath the surface of the earth. The process of injecting CO2 back underground returns the CO2 to where it was naturally stored for millions of years.