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Glossary

 Abandonment

 Abatement

 Absorption

 Accounting

 Acid gas

 Adiabatic

 Adsorption

 Aluminosilicate mineral

 Amine

 Anhydrite

 Anthracite

 Anthropogenic source

 Anticline

 API

 Aquifer

 Assessment unit

 Atmosphere

 Bamako Convention 1991

 Barrier formations

 Basalt

 Basalt formations

 Basel Convention

 Basin

 Bathymetric

 Benthic

 Bicarbonate ion

 Biomass

 Biomass-based CCS

 Bituminous coal

 Blow-out

 Bulk CO2

 Buoyancy

 CaCO3

 CaO

 Capillary entry pressure

 Capillary trapping

 Caprock

 Capture

 Capture efficiency

 Carbon credit

 Carbon trading

 Carbonate

 Carbonate neutralization

 Casing

 CBM

 CCGT

 CCS

 CDM

 Certification

 CGS

 Chlorite

 Class “x” well

 Cleat

 Closing contour

 CO

 CO2

 CO2 avoided

 CO2 equivalent

 CO2 plume

 CO2 stream

 Completion

 Containment

 Continental shelf

 Contingency plan

 Corrective measure

 Critical point

 Dawsonite

 Deep saline aquifer

 Deep sea

 Demonstration phase

 Dense fluid

 Depleted

 Depleted gas field

 Depleted oil field

 Diagenesis

 DIC

 Dip

 Discharge

 Discordant sequence

 Dolomite

 Down-hole log

 Drill cuttings

 Drill string

 Drive

 Dry ice

 EC

 ECBM

 ECBMP

 EGR

 EGS

 EIA

 Emission factor

 Emissions credit

 Emissions trading

 Endothermic

 Enhanced gas recovery

 Enhanced oil recovery

 EOR

 EOS

 ETS

 EU

 EU CCS Directive

 Evaporite

 Exothermic

 Extended reach well

 Far field

 Fault

 Fault reactivation

 Fault slip

 Feldspar

 Flood

 Folding

 Formation

 Formation water

 Fossil fuel

 Fracture

 Fugitive emission

 G8

 Gasification

 GCCSI

 Geochemical trapping

 Geological formation

 Geological setting

 Geological time

 Geomechanics

 Geosphere

 Geothermal

 GHG

 GHG IA

 Greenfields

 Greenhouse gas

 H2

 Henry’s Law

 HHV

 Host rock

 HSE

 Hydrate

 Hydraulic unit

 Hydrodynamic trap

 Hydrogeological

 Hydrostatic

 Hysteresis

 IEA

 IEA GHG

 IGCC

 Igneous

 Immature basin

 Injection

 Injection well

 Injectivity

 In-situ mineralisation

 IPCC

 IPCC 2005

 Kyoto Protocol

 Lateral seal

 LCA

 Leach

 Leakage

 LHV

 Lignite/sub-bituminous coal

 Limestone

 Lithology

 Lithosphere

 LNG

 Log

 London Convention

 London Protocol

 LPG

 Mafic

 Magmatic activity

 Maturation

 Mature sedimentary basins

 mD

 Medium-gravity oil

 Metamorphic

 Mica

 Microseismicity

 Migration

 Mineral trap

 Mineralisation

 Miscible displacement

 Mitigation

 Monitoring

 Monte Carlo

 MRG

 Mt

 Mudstone

 MW

 MWh

 MWth

 Natural analogue

 Natural gas

 Natural underground trap

 Navier-Stokes equations

 Near-field

 NGCC

 Observation well

 OSPAR

 Outcrop

 Overburden

 Overpressure

 Oxidation

 Partial pressure

 PC

 Permeability

 Permian

 PFC

 Point source

 Pore space

 Poroelastic

 Porosity

 Post-closure

 Post-combustion capture

 Pre-combustion capture

 Preventive measure

 Rank

 Redox

 Reduction

 Reservoir

 Residual saturation

 Risk

 Risk assessment

 Saline formation

 Saline groundwater

 Sandstone

 Saturated zone

 Scenario

 Seabed

 Seal

 Secondary recovery

 Sedimentary basin

 Seismic profile

 Seismic technique

 Seismicity

 Shale

 Shale formation

 Significant irregularity

 Sink

 Solid hydrate 

 Solubility trapping

 Sour gas

 Source

 Speciation

 Spill point

 Stimulation

 Storage

 Storage capacity

 Storage complex

 Storage site

 Stratigraphic

 Stratigraphic column

 Stratigraphic trap

 Structural trap

 Structure

 Structure contour map

 Sub-bituminous coal

 Supercritical

 Syngas

 Tectonically active area

 Tertiary

 Tertiary recovery

 Thermocline

 Thermohaline

 Tracer

 Transfer of responsibility

 Trap

 Trapping

 Triple point

 Ultramafic rocks

 Under-saturated

 UNFCCC

 Unminable

 Updip

 Upper ocean

 UTM

 Vadose zone

 Validation

 Ventilation

 Verification

 Vertical seal

 Viscous fingering

 Water column

 Well

 Well with multiple completions

 Wellbore

 Well-bore annulus

 Wellhead pressure

 Wettability

 ZEP

 Zero-carbon energy carrier