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Projeo 位于伊利诺伊州，是公司项目的项目经理，这些项目从工业过程中捕获 CO ₂并将其永久储存在地下深处（碳捕获和储存 [CCS]）。Projeo 最近作为全资子公司加入 GTI。

_{Projeo 总裁 Nick Malkewicz 表示：“我对地下 CO 2}封存工作非常感兴趣。” “我们的技术已经取得了如此大的进步。” 下一件大事是规模。”

Malkewicz 的职业生涯始于一名电缆现场工程师，并领导了为运营公司获取油气井技术数据的工作。他从事 CO ₂地质封存项目已超过 13 年。

“地质封存的有趣之处在于，该行业花了数十年的时间开发从岩石中提取化石燃料的技术，现在我们正在应用这些相同的技术和新技术来永久封存 CO ₂，​​”他说。

十多年前，Projeo 团队的成员与伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的伊利诺伊州地质调查局 (ISGS) 和阿彻丹尼尔斯米德兰 (ADM) 公司合作，支持伊利诺伊州盆地 ecatur 项目 (IBDP) ）。IBDP项目证实了西蒙山砂岩能够接受和储存100万吨CO ₂。

“正是这样的地层数百万年来一直保存着化石燃料，”马尔科维奇说。

该项目最初通过伊利诺伊州环境保护局 (EPA) 许可证作为长期地下 CO _{2储存的 CO 2}注入井进行监管，后来转移到 VI 级 CO ₂注入的联邦监管框架。这是唯一一个已完成的大规模注入盐地层并获准在美国 EPA VI 级监管框架内运行的项目，这为西蒙山砂岩用于商业 CO ₂封存开辟了一条途径。

在 IBDP 项目的基础上，ADM 通过美国能源部拨款运营伊利诺伊州工业 CCS 项目，以展示在伊利诺伊州迪凯特的一家乙醇工厂捕获和处理工业 CO ₂的集成系统，并将其运输到西蒙山砂岩地层进行永久储存。深层砂岩中的地质储存。

_{Projeo 在支持 VI 级 CO 2}注入井的持续安全运营方面继续发挥积极作用，为监管建模、模拟、地下水监测操作、油井维护和地震研究提供帮助。

Projeo 正在与 ISGS 合作实施多项美国能源部碳储存保障设施企业 (CarbonSAFE) 计划，以确保在整个伊利诺伊州盆地的不同地质构造中安全、可靠、高效且经济高效地控制 CO _{2 。}

“利用我们的技术、经验和技能，让人类的思想与自然和谐相处，这样我们就可以扭转气候变化的影响，”尼克说。“在表征新站点时，我们正在试验 1/128 英寸玻璃片的声波纤维。我们可以将光纤发送到地表以下数万英尺，并利用光的反射特性来加深我们对地下数英里岩石的了解。”

高级技术评估提供详细的地下特征并识别风险。然后，团队使用收集到的数据来建模和检查站点性能和长期安全性。 

Projeo 的项目和举措在现实世界的商业规模氨生产、乙醇生产和燃煤发电设施中展示了 CCS 技术。

尼克总结道：“我们支持能源部开发和推进 CCS 技术，以便到 2035 年实现广泛商业部署的使命。” “我们对我们的战略充满信心。”

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Projeo, based in Illinois, is a project manager for companies’ projects that capture CO₂ from industrial processes and permanently store it deep below ground (carbon capture and storage [CCS]). Projeo recently joined GTI as a wholly owned subsidiary.

“I’m having a blast working on subsurface CO₂ storage,” said Nick Malkewicz, Projeo president. “We’ve come so far with the technology. The next big thing is scale.”

Malkewicz started his career as a wireline field engineer and led efforts to acquire technical data in oil and gas wells for operating companies. He’s been working on CO₂ geologic storage projects for more than 13 years.

“What’s so interesting about geologic storage is that the industry spent decades developing techniques for pulling fossil fuels from rock, and now we are applying those same technologies and new ones for permanently storing CO₂,” he said.

More than a decade ago, members of the Projeo team worked with the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Co. to support the Illinois Basin‒Decatur Project (IBDP). The IBDP project confirmed the ability of the Mt. Simon Sandstone to accept and store 1 million metric tons of CO₂.

“It is formations like this that have been holding fossil fuels for millions of years,” Malkewicz said.

The project was originally regulated through an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) permit as a CO₂ injection well for long-term underground CO₂ storage and later moved to the federal regulatory framework for Class VI CO₂ injection. It is the only completed large-scale injection into a saline formation that is permitted to operate within the U.S. EPA Class VI regulatory framework, which creates a pathway for Mt. Simon Sandstone to be used for commercial CO₂ storage.

Building on the IBDP project, ADM operates an Illinois industrial CCS project through a DOE grant to demonstrate an integrated system of capturing and processing industrial CO₂ at an ethanol plant in Decatur, Illinois, and transporting it to the Mt. Simon Sandstone Formation for permanent geologic storage in deep sandstone.

Projeo has continued to play an active role in supporting the ongoing safe operations of the Class VI CO₂ injection well, providing assistance with regulatory modeling, simulation, groundwater monitoring operations, well maintenance and seismic studies.

Projeo is working with the ISGS on multiple DOE Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) initiatives to ensure safe, secure, efficient and cost-effective CO₂ containment in diverse geologic formations throughout the Illinois Basin.

“We use our technology, experience and skill to make human ideas work in harmony with nature, so we can reverse the effects of climate change,” Nick said. “When characterizing new sites, we’re experimenting with an acoustic fiber that is a 1/128th of an inch piece of glass. We can send the fiber tens of thousands of feet under the surface and use the reflected character of the light to deepen our understanding of the rocks miles underground.”

High-level technical evaluations provide detailed subsurface characterization and identify risks. The team then uses the data gathered to model and examine site performance and long-term security. 

Projeo’s projects and initiatives demonstrate CCS technology at real-world, commercial-scale facilities for ammonia production, ethanol production and coal-fired power generation.

“We’re supporting the DOE mission to develop and advance CCS technologies for widespread commercial deployment by 2035,” Nick concluded. “We are confident in our strategy.”