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Finding the right store for CO₂ can lead to very different outcomes

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…

Does Denmark really want onshore CO2 storage?

Henk Kombrink

September 6, 2024

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

Henk Kombrink

September 5, 2024

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?

Henk Kombrink

August 23, 2024

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”

Henk Kombrink

July 17, 2024

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

Henk Kombrink

June 3, 2024

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

Henk Kombrink

May 15, 2024

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?

Henk Kombrink

May 1, 2024

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…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective