CCS – a roller coaster ride from an oil crisis to a climate change solution
Initially, at the time of the 1970s oil crisis, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) was proposed as a way of getting more oil out of the ground through enhanced oil…
Carbon Capture & Storage
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…
Finding the right store for CO2 can lead to very different outcomes
It happens quite regularly that people’s surname seem to be closely linked to the profession they operate in. This certainly applies to Alexander Bump from the University of Texas in…
It’s not the seal, it’s the potential thief zones that form the biggest risk
This summer, a surprising announcement was made by the Danish authorities; the Stenlille CO2 storage project was not awarded a licence to progress with their work programme to realise storage…
3 million versus 100 k
Once large-scale CO2 injection projects will hopefully ramp up, monitoring injection will be an essential part of the workflow. And because the carbon storage business will never be a commercial…
A leak – but what next?
The E&E News website, part of Politico, recently published the news that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a violation notice to the operator of the Decatur CCS project…
Time-lapse gravity
Monitoring strategies for offshore Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) cannot simply replicate those used in the oil and gas industry, which often rely on 4D seismic methods. Regulations mandate monitoring…
Does Denmark really want onshore CO2 storage?
Less than a year ago, we published an article about what was supposed to be Europe’s first full-scale and commercial onshore CO2 storage project, aimed to be operational next year.…
Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Carbon Capture and Storage Well Design
CFD is used to model the leak rate of CO₂ through abandoned wells and to verify that the leak rates are As Low As Reasonably Possible. The risk of loss…
Is carbon capture and storage really a fantasy?
In July, the Pulitzer Center published an article entitled “Documents, Whistleblowers, and Public Comments Are Clear: Oil Companies Know Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Solution”. The authors state that…
“A poor site that fails to meet the criteria for safe subsurface storage”
Onshore seismic is always more of a challenge to interpret than marine seismic data, and the seismic lines from the area around Cousland to the southeast of Edinburgh that Malcolm…