For more than a decade, scientists from Exxon Mobil Corp. have been injecting a dense carbon-dioxide mixture deep into the rock beneath southwest Wyoming. The gooey liquefied gases, the unmarketable by-product of fossil fuel exploration, are injected back into the earth for permanent storage inside a dome-shaped geologic structure more than three miles deep.

Industrial injection in Wyoming

January 9, 2009

For more than a decade, scientists from Exxon Mobil Corp. have been injecting a dense carbon-dioxide mixture deep into the rock beneath southwest Wyoming.

The gooey liquefied gases, the unmarketable by-product of fossil fuel exploration, are injected back into the earth for permanent storage inside a dome-shaped geologic structure more than three miles deep.

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