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…
Carbon Capture & Storage
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…
Another pressure plot without values
It is the third time in a matter of a few months that a pressure plot was shown during a carbon storage presentation without values on the vertical axis –…
Producing shale gas through the injection of CO2
If the people living in New York’s Southern Tier thought that shale gas production is not going happen in their backyard because of the ban on using water for fracking,…
Are we moving into the age of the pore space paradox?
Whilst the people at E3 Lithium in Canada will no doubt support the road to Net Zero, they were not very pleased to see the company Enhance receiving a permit…
A geologists’ paradise
The hotel kindly hosting the Aberdeen evening lectures organised by the GESGB should have looked at the programme before deciding not to man the bar last night. The talk was…
Wind and solar energy – temporarily stored in a salt cavern
One of the major challenges for the energy transition is the storage of excess energy that can be used at times when the wind does not blow or the sun…
The race for pressure space
Another pressure plot without values on the Y-axis! That’s what I thought when watching Eirik Jenssen’s presentation at the Dig X Conference in Oslo yesterday. Eirik works as a Reservoir…