Doing it differently
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,…
Carbon Capture & Storage
Dutch flagship CCS project given the go-ahead in court
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
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
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
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!
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…