Draft WESTCARB Data and Reports

This webpage allows WESTCARB participants to post reference data and draft reports for use and review by other project team members. To post a draft, please e-mail your file and an explanation of its contents to the WESTCARB webmaster at westcarbweb@bki.com.

Note that once final documents are approved, they will be posted to their relevant webpage, such as Technical Presentations or WESTCARB Carbon Atlas on the main (public) portion of the website or under WESTCARB Presentations in the partners’ work area.

Although virtually all WESTCARB reports are ultimately made public, please treat draft information linked to this page as confidential.

Select the draft information of interest from the list below for viewing or downloading. Linked files are in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, or Word, or in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.

PHASE I FINAL REPORT

California Energy Commission (Myer et al.)
Sequestration Options for the West Coast States (~100 MB Adobe Acrobat pdf file)

PHASE I PAPERS AND FINAL REPORTS

Many of these Phase I papers and reports are included as part of the Phase I Final Report (see link above).

REGIONAL CHARACTERIZATION

Geologic Characterization of Sedimentary Basins: State Reports

California Geological Survey (Downey/Clickenbeard)
An Overview of Geologic Carbon Sequestration Potential in California

Golder Associates
Sedimentary Basin Database for Washington and Oregon States for the Geologic Carbon Dioxide Assessment

Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology (Price et al.)
Preliminary Assessment of the Potential for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Geological Settings in Nevada

Terrestrial Carbon Baselines: State Reports

Winrock (Pearson et al.)
Baseline Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals for Forest and Agricultural Lands in Arizona, Oregon, and Washington (11 MB Adobe Acrobat pdf file)

CO₂ Capture Technology and Economic Assessments

Nexant (Ruby)
Power Plant CO₂ Capture Options and Economics
Technology and Economic References

TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT (Regulatory and Permitting Issues)

Geologic Storage Site Risk Screening

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Oldenburg)
Health, Safety, and Environmental Screening and Ranking Framework for Geologic CO₂ Storage Site Selection
Health, Safety, and Environmental Screening and Ranking Framework: Excel Spreadsheets, with Examples for Rio Vista and Ventura

Regulatory Assessments for WESTCARB States

Terralog Technologies USA, Inc. (Young/Bruno)
Regulatory and Permitting Issues Report
Permitting and Regulatory Issues Compilation: State-by-State Analysis for Geologic (Transportation and Injection) and Terrestrial Sequestration

Sequestration "Life Cycle" Emissions Assessment

Nexant (Ruby)
Life Cycle Assessment of Power Generation Emissions When CO₂ Removal Is Applied

Phase II Permitting Strategy

Assembled by BKi (Myhre)
Action Plan for Addressing Phase II Technology Deployment Issues

PUBLIC OUTREACH

BKi (Myhre)
Public Outreach Education Materials
Stakeholder Public Meeting Summary (50 MB Adobe Acrobat pdf file)
Action Plan for Phase II Public Outreach

REGIONAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION ASSESSMENT AND PILOT PROJECTS ACTION PLAN

Source-Sink Matching and Geologic Sequestration Cost Estimation

MIT (Herzog)
West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership CO₂ Sequestration GIS Analysis

Terrestrial Carbon Supply Curves

Winrock (Dushku et al.)
Carbon Sequestration through Changes in Land Use in Oregon and Washington: Costs and Opportunities (43 MB Adobe Acrobat pdf file)

Winrock (Petrova et al.)
Carbon Supply from Changes in Management of Forest, Range, and Agricultural Lands of California: Forest Fuel Reduction

Phase II Pilot Projects Action Plan

Assembled by BKi (Myhre)
Action Plan for Phase II Pilot Projects

SUPPLEMENTAL EVALUATIONS / BACKGROUND

CO₂ Emission Source Data for WESTCARB Region

CEC (Franco)
California Power Plant Map
California Power Plant Table
Comments on CEC Power Plant Table

Nexant (Ruby)
Cement and Lime Plants
Comments on Nexant Non-Power-Plant Data
Power Plants
Petroleum Refineries and Steel Mills
Recommended CO₂ Source Data Parameters
Source Overview by Economic Sector

MIT (Herzog)
Ammonia Plants
Cement Plants
Carbon Management GIS: CO₂ Capture Cost Estimation
Carbon Management GIS: CO₂ Source-Sink Matching Analysis Documentation
Carbon Management GIS: CO₂ Storage Capacity Tools Documentation
CO₂ Source Background (IEA report)
CO₂ Thermophysical Property Online Calculator
Hydrogen Units (associated with refineries)
Iron and Steel Mills
Refineries
Source Type Overview and Power Plants

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