EU Directive for the Geological Storage of CO2

The outlines of a future legal framework for a new European Union (EU) directive on carbon storage are presented in the following paper by the German consultancy Eggers Malmendier. The paper points out that as the law currently stands in Europe, carbon dioxide cannot be stored in saline aquifers or depleted oil and gas reservoirs. For now, the only permissible option is to seek permission to dispose / utilise the gas as part of an enhanced oil or hydrocarbon gas recovery (EOR/EGR) project.