Deep saline aquifers and coal seams as potential sites for the CO2 geological storage in Italy.

The complex tectonic setting, the high seismic risk of the most part of its territory, and the volcanic risk associated to a large part of it, together with the high population density reduce the possibilities for a wide scale application of CO2 geological storage in Italy.However, various studies have been performed in the last years, in order to evaluate the possibility of geological storage in Italy, considering the three main options for geological storage, the hydrocarbon field, depleted or with possible enhances oil or gas recovery (EOR, EGR), the deep saline aquifers, the unmineable coal seams, with possible ehanced coal bed methane recovery (ECBM). This work focusses on the latter two possibilities: deep saline aquifers and coal seams.