| ACTL | Alberta Carbon Trunk Line |
| CBM | Coal Bed Methane |
| CCS | Carbon Capture and Storage |
| CO2CRC | The Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| ECBM | Enhanced Coal Bed Methane recovery |
| EGS | Enhanced Geothermal System |
| EOR | Enhanced Oil Recovery |
| GHG | Greenhouse Gas |
| HCPV | Hydrocarbon Pore Volume |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| LNG | Liquefied Natural Gas |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MVA | Monitoring, Verification and Accounting |
| OGIP | Original Gas in Place |
| OOIP | Original Oil in Place |
| TRL | Technology Readiness Level |
| UKCCSRC | UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre |
| US-DOE | United States Department of Energy |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| VSP | Vertical Seismic Profile |
| XRD | X-Ray Diffraction |