Carbon Capture & Storage

An under-communicated factor for CCS

Ola Eiken. Photography: Ola Eiken private archive. “We did not want the same unexpected situation like we had at Ekofisk,” recalls Ola Eiken, CEO of Quad Geometrics. He refers to…

Understanding CO2 flow at Sleipner using stratigraphic continuity

The Sleipner pro­ject, located off­shore Norway, marks one of the first large-scale carbon cap­ture and storage (CCS) in­itiatives. Since 1996, more than 18.5 million tons of CO₂ have been injected…

Keeping geoscientists busy

Geoscientists can go too far in the relent­less pursuit to de-risk all elements that could cause a CO2 store to leak. At least, that is my take based on listening…

Creating a source rock and storing it for good

“We started as a project when Swiss supermarket concern Migros wanted to find a solution to process its food waste in a carbon-neutral way,” says geologist Tim Baars from Recoal.…

Basalt as a CO2 storage reservoir

Harnessing a natural process, mineralization of CO2 is the pro­cess by which primary and secondary minerals such as Mg, Fe, and Ca pres­ent in basalts interact with CO2-enriched fluids to…

The injected CO2 that went missing

It is always good to speak to people at con­ferences and hear what is going on. That is how I learned about a CO2 storage project that took place in…