10.5880/GFZ.KHAG.2025.002 eng dataset GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences datapub@gfz-potsdam.de http://www.gfz-potsdam.de Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences pointOfContact 2025-05-20 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:4326 Database for characterization of potential sites for CO2 storage in Northern Germany 2025-05-20 revision 2024-11 creation doi:10.5880/GFZ.KHAG.2025.002 Xu, Yifan GFZ Helmhotz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany author Singh, Mrityunjay GFZ Helmhotz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany author Schmidt-Hattenberger, Cornelia GFZ Helmhotz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany author Farkas, Márton Pál GFZ Helmhotz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany author Weinzierl, Wolfgang GFZ Helmhotz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany author Fernandez-Steeger, Tomas Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany author GFZ Data Services publisher The database help assess the technical feasibility questions for CO2 underground storage in North German Basin and the German North Sea region serving as a reference for “direct air capture and storage for reaching CO2 neutrality” project. The main purpose for this database was to gather uniform geological data information for characterizing depleted hydrocarbon fields and deep saline aquifers, supporting strategic decision making for pilot project to establish a direct air capture and storage demonstrator in Germany. All data collected for the database comes from public domains and therefore making it suitable for preliminary site screening and selection. However, detailed site characterization and further investigation are required for more comprehensive evaluation. For each of the identified storage sites found from previous publication and projects (Höding et al., 2009;Hystories, 2022; Poulsen et al., 2013), 9 parameters were selected for geological characterization for CO2 storage assessment, which are depth and thickness of storage formation, porosity and permeability, estimated storage capacity, caprock thickness, and reservoir integrity, as well as geothermal gradient. The determination of this parameters were generally following the instructions of International Organization for Standardization (2017), the ISO 27914:2017 standard outlines the requirements for carbon dioxide capture, transportation, and geological storage and other publications for site screening and selection instructions (Callas et al., 2022, 2023; Kim et al., 2022; Raza et al., 2016; Uliasz-Misiak et al., 2021), and further carved considering sound scientific approaches, best practice methodologies, availability of high-quality data, and in-situ storage conditions. The geological coordinates have been converted to WGS 84 / UTM zone 33N with QGIS authority projection number as European Petroleum Survey Group (32633). Most geological parameters were extracted based on TUNB model(BGR, LAGB, LBEG, LBGR, LLUR, & LUNG, 2022), additional petrophysical information were mainly collected from Müller & Reinhold, (2011), Reinhold et al., (2011) and Petroleum Geological Atlas of the Southern Permian Basin Area, (2010) projects. Additionally, this database can also serve as a valuable resource for other types of underground storage characterization. Singh, Mrityunjay GFZ Helmhotz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Scientist singh@gfz-potsdam.de https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/staff/mrityunjay.singh informtion pointOfContact CO2 storage site screening and selection geological characterization North German Basin direct air capture analytical hierarchy process saline aquifers depleted oil and gas fields EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOTHERMAL DYNAMICS > GEOTHERMAL ENERGY EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOTHERMAL DYNAMICS > GEOTHERMAL TEMPERATURE > TEMPERATURE GRADIENT EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS > SEDIMENTARY ROCKS > SEDIMENTARY ROCK FORMATION NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords publication CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 10.1016/j.ijggc.2025.104392 DOI IsSupplementTo https://gst.bgr.de URL Cites https://sccs.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj17761/files/media/file/otc-32331-ms_0.pdf URL Cites 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119668 DOI Cites https://lbgr.brandenburg.de/sixcms/media.php/9/BGB-1-2_09_Hoeding_1-18.pdf URL Cites https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/630ec7b3cbd54e39b4111e397315ae99 URL Cites 10.1016/j.ijggc.2022.103579 DOI Cites 10.1127/sdgg/74/2011/9 DOI Cites https://www.nlog.nl/southern-permian-basin-atlas URL Cites https://setis.ec.europa.eu/european-co2-storage-database URL Cites 10.1016/j.jngse.2015.11.053 DOI Cites https://www.bgr.bund.de/DE/Themen/Nutzung_tieferer_Untergrund_CO2Speicherung/Projekte/CO2-Speicherung+Nutzungspotenziale/Abgeschlossen/speicherkataster.html URL Cites eng geoscientificInformation North German Basin and German part of North Sea 3.02421 15.0762 50.9001 55.9035 2023-02-01T09:00:00 2024-09-20T13:00:00 http://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.KHAG.2025.002 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Data Access - DOI Data Access - DOI information