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It will be the first long-termk project of its kind in theUnitedc States. The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energyy Technology Laboratory is fundingthe 10-year, $38 million to be conducted by the Bureau of Economic Geolog at UT. "This is the next step in a seriesof bureau-ler experiments to test much-needed carbon capture and storage said Scott Tinker, bureau director. The project aims to gathe r extensive subsurface data on deep brinee reservoirs and their capacity to hold largr volumes of greenhouse The Tuscaloosa-Woodbine geologic system, which stretches from Texaws to Florida, has the potential to storr more than 200 billion tons of CO2, the equivalent of 33 worth of current U.
S. emissions. Injections will stary this fallnear Natchez, Miss., and geologists and scientist will monitor the effects of the sequestration, as well as the retention rates. The CO2 will come from Plano-baserd 's enhanced oilfield recovery operations in theCranfield Houston-based Schlumberger, The University of Mississippi, Mississippu State University and UT are four of the 20 internationalo partners involved in the