Retraining for CCS projects
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…
Carbon Capture & Storage
Spinning the CCS project wheels – it’s time to change gear!
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!
“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
“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
“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…
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…
Indonesia – now is the right time to look into underground gas storage potential
Indonesia is heavily reliant on gas for a variety of purposes. This is particularly true for Java, which is the most densely populated island of the Indonesian archipelago, and which…
Very high level of confidence in long-term CO2 containment following injection, study finds
Deep geological storage of CO2 is safe. That could well be the main summary of an extensive report published by the UK Government last week. The UK Climate Change Committee…
An Onshore CCS Debacle
The owners of the Petra Nova CO2 plant, built at a Coal Power Station in Texas, went for it. Rather than constructing a 60 Mwe facility according to the first…
Abandoning a well with a CCS mindset
“The geoscience behind well abandonments is getting more challenging when we want to accommodate requirements for potential CCS projects in the area,” said Scott Liebnitz during last week’s Aberdeen Energy…
The most cost-effective way of monitoring CO2 injection
The business case for Carbon Sequestration and Storage is challenging, and that is the reason why there is a huge drive to come up with ideas to carry out the…
The deep subsurface is not always to blame
When data on land subsidence in the Epe area (Germany) was made public, Pandorra’s box opened. Those who looked at the data were quick to point their finger to the…