Putting It Back: Carbon Capture and Storage from Amine Towers to Caprock

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 28, 2026 · 1h 4m

Eight months into injection, storage engineer Rafael Quint watches the bottom-hole pressure on a carbon dioxide injection well keep climbing when the model said it should level off, and has fourteen months before he must cut injection and vent. Episode one hundred and seven follows a tonne of carbon dioxide from an amine tower that soaks it up like a sponge, through compressors where it turns into a fluid that is neither gas nor liquid, into pipelines where a rupture at Satartia in 2020 showed how a heavy invisible cloud can pool in a village, onto ships bound for Northern Lights, and down…