On January 27, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14008 calling for an all-government initiative to reduce the impacts of climate change.
On November 15, 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law and gave the Secretary of the Interior the authority to grant a lease, easement, or right-of-way on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for long-term sequestration of carbon dioxide that would otherwise go into the atmosphere and contribute to further climate change.
The Act directs DOI to promulgate regulations. BOEM and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) are working together to draft regulations for public comment.
- Fact Sheet: BOEM Carbon Sequestration
- Presentation: Assessment of Carbon Storage Resources on the US Outer Continental Shelf (Nov 2024)
- Presentation: 7th International Workshop on Offshore Geologic CO2 Storage (Sept 2024)
- Presentation: Carbon Sequestration on the Outer Continental Shelf (Feb 2024)
- Presentation: Atlantic CCS Assessment: An Introduction and Status Update (April 2023)
- Presentation: Carbon Sequestration on the Outer Continental Shelf (Aug 2022)
- Presentation: 5th International Conference on Carbon Storage (May 2022)
- Presentation: SSEB Regulatory Workshop (May 2022)
- Presentation: Identification of Tier 1 Depleted Reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico (Mar 2022)