Carbon Capture & Storage Archives

Carbon Capture & Storage

Understanding CO₂ flow at Sleipner using stratigraphic continuity

Basil Onyekayahweh Nwafor and John Castagna, University of Houston, Robert Van Eykenhof and Marianne Rauch, Lumina Geophysical

July 3, 2025

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

Henk Kombrink

June 26, 2025

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

Henk Kombrink

May 21, 2025

“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.…

The benefits of being an oil veteran when assessing depleted fields for carbon storage

Henk Kombrink

May 2, 2025

“ In some ways, knowing the reservoir storage capacity of a CCS project is even more critical than knowing the size of the same reservoir prior to gas production,” said…

CCS – a roller coaster ride from an oil crisis to a climate change solution

Rodney Garrard

April 10, 2025

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…

Basalt as a CO2 storage reservoir

Lois Greenfield, Aberdeen University

March 19, 2025

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

Henk Kombrink

January 31, 2025

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

Henk Kombrink

December 19, 2024

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

Henk Kombrink

December 3, 2024

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

Henk Kombrink

November 18, 2024

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?

Henk Kombrink

October 17, 2024

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

Hugo Ruiz, Reach Subsea and Helen Basford, Spirit Energy

September 19, 2024

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…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective