Illinois Basin – Decatur Project: Shallow Groundwater Monitoring Program

Wimmer, Bracken T.; Iranmanesh, Abbas; Carman, Carl H.; Garner, Damon; Patterson, Christopher G.; Locke, Randall A., II

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Title

Illinois Basin – Decatur Project: Shallow Groundwater Monitoring Program

Author(s)

• Wimmer, Bracken T.
• Iranmanesh, Abbas
• Carman, Carl H.
• Garner, Damon
• Patterson, Christopher G.
• Locke, Randall A., II

Issue Date

2025

Keyword(s)

• Geochemistry
• Carbon capture
• Fluid sampling
• Geology
• Illinois Basin Decatur Project

Date of Ingest

2025-12-31T11:33:53-06:00

Abstract

In 1997, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiated the Carbon Storage Program, managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), to develop and advance carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies with a high potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Seven regional carbon sequestration partnerships were formed and tasked with determining the best geologic and terrestrial storage approaches and technological applications to store carbon dioxide (CO2) safely and permanently in specific regions throughout North America (Litynski et al. 2013). The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC) was formed by the state geological surveys of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS), part of the Prairie Research Institute within the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, led the MGSC efforts (Finley 2014). In 2007, the MGSC, in close partnership with the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and Schlumberger Carbon Services, began a large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, known as the Illinois Basin – Decatur Project (IBDP), in Decatur, Illinois, United States. This research was funded by the U.S. DOE through the NETL Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program (contract number DE-FC26-05NT42588) and administered by the University of Illinois and by a cost-share agreement with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s Office of Coal Development through the Illinois Clean Coal Institute.

Publisher

Champaign, Ill.: Illinois State Geological Survey, Prairie Research Institute.

Series/Report Name or Number

Circular ; no. 614

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

technical report

Language

eng

Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

U.S. DOE contract number DE-FC26-05NT42588. Administered by the University of Illinois and by a cost-share agreement with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s Office of Coal Development through the Illinois Clean Coal Institute.

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