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In October 2007, the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin received a 10-year, $ 38 million subcontract to conduct the first intensively monitored, long-term project in the United States studying the feasibility of injecting a large volume of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > for underground storage.

The project is a research program of the Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership ( SECARB ), funded by the National Energy Technology Laboratory of the U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ).

The SECARB partnership will demonstrate CO < sub > 2 </ sub > injection rate and storage capacity in the Tuscaloosa-Woodbine geologic system that stretches from Texas to Florida.

Beginning in fall 2007, the project will inject CO < sub > 2 </ sub > at the rate of one million tons per year, for up to 1. 5 years, into brine up to below the land surface near the Cranfield oil field about east of Natchez, Mississippi.

Experimental equipment will measure the ability of the subsurface to accept and retain CO < sub > 2 </ sub >.