Main expected results
ECCO is focused towards the complete CO₂ value chain, and will generate results and cause progress beyond state of the art of CO₂ value chains.

Strategies and recommendations for deployment of CO₂ value chains will be document in the main project report: “ECCO Strategies for CO₂ value chain deployment”. The report will comprises ECCO’s joint strategies and recommendations regarding deployment of the CO₂ infrastructure in the near and mid-term future within fields as:

• Liability issues and cross-border regulations
• Emission Trading Schemes (ETS)
• Financing schemes and regime of incentives
• Organization of the supply chain

The report will be available in 2011

A CO₂ value chain assessment tool will also be developed. The tool will enable transparent and robust analysis of CO₂ value chains, and it will be designed to allow for flexible market dynamics.

The development of reservoir knowledge related to EOR and EGR in the project will increase the ability to predict EOR and EGR profiles and potentials for CO₂ injection into European oil and gas reservoirs.

The ECCO project will also develop new methodology for CO₂ value chain assessment. The project will address CO₂ value chain evaluation by means of establishing scenarios as input for formulation of CCS cases, which further are used in the CCS case analysis.

Expected impacts
The knowledge, methods, and tools developed in ECCO will influence future CCS initiatives by enabling the industrial players and the authorities to analyze, understand, and make sound decisions.

Results from ECCO will help decision making related to:

• Underpinning the realisation of CO₂ value chains for captured CO₂ from large point sources for CO₂ injection in petroleum reservoirs for EOR/EGR and CO₂ storage.
• Improve security of supply by enabling sustainable use of fossil fuels, protracting increases in fuel imports by making better use of existing resources and shortening time to market for promising CCS related technologies.
• Strengthen the competitiveness of the European economy by maintaining and reinforcing the leading position in CCS technologies and by sharing and building on the existing EOR experience in Central and Eastern Europe and on-going activities in the North Sea.