Bureau of Economic Geology signs agreement with China to pursue historic carbon capture research

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Published:
August 25, 2015

Dr. Scott Tinker, director of UT Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with business and academic leaders from China recently to form a partnership in the development of offshore carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) research. The project will be led by the Bureau’s Gulf Coast Carbon Center, recognized for developing technologies to implement CCUS worldwide. The agreement was signed at a ceremony hosted by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, which has spearheaded U.S.-China collaboration to help combat climate change through scientific research. For more, watch a video about the USTDA’s work.