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On the long list of barriers to the accelerated development of carbon storage put together by the US Department of Energy (DOE) is the need for a widely accepted method for evaluating and managing underground storage sites. At the recent CO2 Conference in Midland, Texas, John Litynski, DOE's director of carbon transport and storage, said they are interested in testing the CO2 Storage Resources Management System (SRMS) developed by the CO2 Storage Resources Committee, a committee of the SPE Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technical Section. A slide from the presentation by Litynski said "The SPE system offers a common terminology for the many people involved with developments, allowing them to communicate about the complicated subsurface reality of storage." The SRMS, which was initially rolled out in 2017, is competing for acceptance with other proposed systems for evaluating, planning, and classifying storage systems. Its origin runs parallel to SPE's Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS), which is widely used to evaluate oil reserves globally.