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Are Sleipner and Snøhvit calling into question the long-term viability of CCS?

September 14, 2023

It appears that the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), headquartered in Ohio US, is overly critical towards the future of Carbon Capture and Storage projects. The Institute…

A star to enable safer CO₂ storage

Ronny Setså

August 30, 2023

It forms a wonderful pattern, NORSAR‘s new array NORFOX, which is buried deep in the forest on Løten, Norway. However, it is not particularly visible. Some long tracks and a…

Doing it differently

Henk Kombrink

August 18, 2023

Approved in 2002, the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in Nevada, US, looked to become the country’s final destination for high-level radioactive waste for quite a few years. Until 2011,…

Dutch flagship CCS project given the go-ahead in court

Henk Kombrink

August 16, 2023

More than 1000 people listened to the online broadcast of a hearing that lasted for about 3 minutes. There was something important at stake; the future of carbon storage in…

CO₂ leakage out of a reservoir should be accepted as a risk

Henk Kombrink

August 8, 2023

Rather than telling people that no CO2 will ever leak from a subsurface reservoir, geoscientists should rather use their expertise to explain that there are always risks associated with drilling…

Using old wells as gravitational energy storage devices

Henk Kombrink

July 21, 2023

The ticket item in the energy transition is the efficient buffering of energy in order to overcome the intermittent nature of solar and wind. Old wells can help with that,…

Retraining for CCS projects

Peter van den Bogert, PetroEdge

July 12, 2023

Understanding the technical and operational risks in each component of the transport and storage system is rudimentary to CO2 leakage prevention and system performance optimisation. For instance, injection well issues…

Spinning the CCS project wheels – it’s time to change gear!

Richard Cobb - Geologica

June 7, 2023

As I write, CO2 is being injected from the Nini platform in the Danish North Sea as part of Project Greensand, the world’s first cross-border offshore CO2 storage project facilitated…

Boring? Maybe not so boring!

Henk Kombrink

April 21, 2023

“It’s the details that always bite you in the end”, said Ronny Parr from the North Sea Transition Authority to the audience at SPE’s Seismic 2023 Conference in Aberdeen yesterday.…

Producing more from Norwegian oil fields without impacting the climate

Ronny Setså

April 11, 2023

“The answer is a definite yes”, says Ole Gunnar Tveiten, geologist at AGR, regarding the possibility for Norway to maintain oil production in the years to come and at the…

The challenge at Gorgon

Henk Kombrink

April 7, 2023

“Every CO2 project will have its unique challenges”, said Chris Stavinoha from Chevron during his presentation at SEAPEX last month. And as he explained during his talk, Chevron’s Gorgon CO2…

Spotted at…

Henk Kombrink

April 3, 2023

A conference about digitalisation and subsurface data in Norway – it is a platform where one would mainly expect people from energy companies and the related service sector. But the…

The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective