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20.8.2010. A group of graduate students from Columbia University visited the CarbFix site. Einar Gunnlaugsson and Hólmfríður Sigurðardóttir took them on a scientific tour to the Hengill Area, the Hellisheiði Power Plant and Accompanying Injection of H2S and CO2.
5.8.2010. A meeting was held with Reykjavik Energy employees and collaborators from the University of Iceland and Iceland Geosurvey on safety requirements among other things
regarding the CarbFix project.
9.6.2010 The Annual Status Report describes how the CarbFix research program advanced during the year 2009. The report is available here.
10.5.2010. In March it was discovered that the gas from the Hellisheidi Power Plant contained high percentage of air. This gas will be lead into the pilot gas abatement plant which feeds the CarbFix project. During the past few weeks amendments have been put into force that have solved this problem. This has delayed the time schedule for the CO
2 injection, which is now planned to start this summer.
PhD student position available in the spring of 2010 at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland. Project to be part of the Carbfix and the GEORG projects. Deadline for application is May 9th 2010.
2.3.2010. The technicians and engineers at Reykjavik Energy have finished installing the CarbFix equipment at the injection site.
22.1.2010 
Elísabet Vilborg Ragnheiðardóttir, MS student in the REYST program, Reykjavik Energy Graduate School of Sustainable Systems, defended her thesis 21 January at the Business Department of the University of Iceland. The title of the thesis: Costs, Profitability and Potential Gains of the CarbFix Program. Her supervisors: Helga Krisjansdottir, University of Iceland, William Harvey, Reykjavik University and Holmfridur Sigurdardottir Reykjavik Energy. Her MS project is a part of the CarbFix Project.
Reykjavik Energy's Head of Innovation and Development discusses the CarbFix program, an international project to store carbon emissions in rock, and the role a major geothermal plant is playing in the effort.
Here's the link to
Clean Skies News.
COVER:The Hellisheidi geothermal power project in southwestern Iceland, site of a pilot study on the feasibility of sequestration of carbon dioxide in basaltic rocks. Here, carbon dioxide released from the hot water that powers the facility is dissolved in cooling water and injected below ground to a depth of 300 to 800 meters, where it can react with basalt to form new, stable minerals. Photo: Haraldur Stefansson/Alamy.
The HK-34 monitoring well was recently supplied with new pumping equipment. The pump was installed at a depth of 363 meters and is now pumping water from the hole.
Dr. Sigurður Reynir Gislason Institute of Earth Sciences and Holmfridur Sigurdardottir Reykjavik Energy discussed the CarbFix project with the President of Iceland Olafur Ragnar Grimsson and dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) after dr. Pachauri‘s meeting with the President 19 September 2009.
Scientists gathered in Iceland for a conference are urging government
leaders headed to Copenhagen for climate talks later this year to
pursue carbon capture and sequestration as a way of addressing global
warming.
Thursday 3rd of September at 15:00, Therese Kaarbø Flaathen will defend her PhD thesis ”Water-rock interaction during CO2 sequestration in basalt” in the main building at the University of Iceland (Aðalbygging). The PhD is a joint degree between the University of Iceland and University III – Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. Therese's PhD thesis is a part of the CarbFix Project.
The Abstract in English can be found here.
Information on the thesis in Icelandic can be found here.
September 7-8 an international conference on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) will be staged in Iceland, at the site of the CarbFix project, which attempts to geologically store CO2 in as a crystalised mineral in the Icelandic lavas. Among those lecturing at the conference are world-leading authorities on CCS and global warming and the focus of the conference will be on CO2 sequestration processes. Registration for the conference is already closed.
A tentative schedule is available here (Updated August 31st 2009).
Attire and equipment List can be found here.
Guide for field sampling trip 5-6th September 2009 can be found here.
Further information on the CarbFix project can be found here.
A three day field excursion is planned on September 9th 2009 in connection with the international conference on CO2 sequestration processes in Reykjavík, Iceland.
You can find the schedule and more information, in a .pdf document compiled by Gretar Ívarsson, here:
International_conference_on_CO2_sequestration_processes__Field_Guide_2009.pdf
Attire and Equipment List
Here it is possible to view time-laps photos from two cameras at Sólheimajökull, i.e. IL-1 and IL-5. It may take short time to appear.
Most resent photos from Sólheimajökull James Balog is showing in his talk here.
15.5.2009. An international conference on CO
2 sequestration processes run in partnership by the CarbFix network in Reykjavik, Iceland, Reykjavik Energy, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, Institute of Earth Sciences of University of Iceland and the CNRS in Toulouse, France will be held in Reykjavik in September 2009. To view a tentative schedule of the meeting and field trips, please click
here(
Updated August 31st 2009).
Attire and Equipment List
6.4.2009. The Annual Status Report describes how the CarbFix research program advanced during the year 2008. The report is available
here.
3.3.2009. A prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship (Early Stage Researcher), leading to a doctoral degree, is available at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland as part of a Marie Curie ITN Network (Delta-MIN) involving an international group of nine universities. The research themes of Delta-MIN relate to the mechanisms of mineral re-equilibration (phase transformation) in the presence of a fluid phase (
www.Delta-MIN.com).
27.1.2009. An article by Therese Karrbo Flaathen et al on “Chemical evolution of the Mt. Hekla, Iceland, groundwaters: A natural analogue for CO2 sequestration in basaltic rocks” is available on the CarbFix website.
27.1.2009. The shallow monitoring well HK-13 has been repaired by a supporting plastic casing.
8.1.2009 GHGT-9 Proceedings on “Permanent Carbon Dioxide Storage into Basalt: The CarbFix Pilot Project, Iceland” is available on the CarbFix website.
BBC Newsnight reports from Iceland on the CarbFix project.
During the recent meeting of the Scientific Steering Committee of Carbfix held in Iceland 16-17 October, it is aimed at that CO2 sequestration at Reykjavik Energy‘s Hellisheidi Power Plant will commence in May.
03.10.2008. Mahnaz Rezvanikhalilabad a MSc student in the department of Geology defended her thesis 29 September. Her MSc project is part of the CarbFix Project.
Six graduate students from the CarbFix group presented posters on the various aspects of mineral carbon fixation in basalt at the GES8 (Geochemistry of the Earth‘s Surface 8) meeting 18-22 August 2008. Pdf files of their presentations are available on the CarbFix web site.
15.9.2008. Sigurdur Reynir Gislason and Therese Flaathen, members of the CarbFix group in Reykjavik and Toulouse gave a talk on the CarbFix project at the 33
rd International Geological Congress in Oslo, Norway 6-14 August 2008.
4.7.2008. Today Susan Watts Science Editor, Ming Tsang Producer and Mark Thompson Cameraman from BBS Newsnight visited the project site at the Hellisheidi Geothermal Plant.
3.7.2008.Technicians at Reykjavik Energy have installed a down hole pump in the new monitoring well HK-34 at the CO
2 injection site.
The article „Nature Imitated in Permanent CO2 Storage Project in Basalts in Iceland“ by Hólmfríður Sigurðardóttir, the project manager for the CarbFix project, is published in the June 2008 Greenhouse Issue.
20.6.2008. Yesterday, Hólmfríður Sigurðardóttir, Reykjavik Energy introduced the CarbFix project to scientists taking part in a conference held in Reykjavik on global greenhouse gas cycles and climate changes.
20.6.2008. The drilling of the new monitoring well at the CO
2 injection site finished 16 June , the day before Iceland celebrates its Independence.
13.06.2008 A meeting between members of the CarbFix Project´s Scientific Steering Committee and Management Team is taking place at Reykjavik Energy´s headquarters.
11.06.2008. Tracer tests with the aim of characterizing the target reservoir for the CO2 storage continued yesterday.
29.5.2008. Drilling of the new monitoring well is proceeding. Yesterday, the drill had reached 216 m.
A part of the infrastructure for the large scale tracer test is installed.
Yesterday, the last groundwater sample in the fluorescein tracer test was taken in monitoring well HN-4.
Hólmsteinn Sigurðsson Reykjavik Energy and Guðmundur Karl Guðjónsson Ræktunarsamband Flóa og Skeiða signed today a contract for drilling of the new monitoring well at the CO
2 injection site.
The Norwegian Parliamentary Committee visited Reykjavik Energy during its visit in Iceland 13-15 May 2008.
Drilling of a new monitoring well at the CO2 injection site is started.
Yesterday, Hólmfríður Sigurðardóttir, Reykjavik Energy, introduced the CarbFix project to LULUCF.
Professor Sigurður Reynir Gíslason at the University of Iceland presented the CarbFix project to Al Gore. The presentation can be viewed here.
Representatives from the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA), the Embassy of Iceland in Brussels and the Ministry for the Environment in Iceland visited the target site for CO2 injection.
Yesterday down-hole pumps were installed in two monitoring wells at the CO2 injection site.
The preparation for the long-term tracer test (SF6 and natrium fluorescein) is on schedule.
The Carb-Fix project is currently addressing background fluid chemistries at the injection site and characterizing the target reservoir for CO2 storage.
An initial short tracer test was launched November 13 at the target zone for CO2-injection in Þrengsli.
Icelandic, American, and French scientists launched today a project aimed at storing CO2 in Iceland’s lavas.
The Scientific Steering Committee and the Management Team held a meeting 26th-28th August 2007.
The Scientific Steering Committee held it’s meeting at Orkuveita Reykjavíkur 24th-25th May 2007.