The CCS parallel universe
Sometimes, I cannot prevent the feeling that the CO2 storage business is not so much about putting CO2 in the ground, but rather to keep an entire academic research community,…
Subsurface Storage
The subsurface is a key factor in explaining the poor result of the recent Danish CCS tender
Denmark is one of the countries that aims to be a leader when it comes to climate change mitigation measures. That’s why the government launched a tender process in October…
Carbon capture and mineralisation pilots in the Middle East
44.01 named their company after the mass of the molecule that is central to their business: Carbon Dioxide. They use CO2 captured from industry or the atmosphere and dissolve it…
Diverting the flow: The hidden power of overburden barriers
Since Mark Lakos joined Rock Flow Dynamics (RFD) from Wintershall Dea a bit more than a year ago – a job that brought him to Russia and Egypt – he has…
Offshore Algarve Basin geological carbon storage potential
In the Algarve Basin, two late Miocene plays have been identified southeast of the Faro Peninsula using high-quality seismic and borehole data (Figure 1). These comprise of high-porosity turbiditic sands…
How can we monitor North Sea carbon stores under wind farms and production platforms?
Repeat time-lapse seismic surveys can track CO2 plume migration, but where the seabed is obstructed by wind turbines or oil and gas platforms, access by vessels towing long multi-streamer arrays…
“In one year, we lost two years”
“Last year was not a very good one,” Habib admits when we meet on Teams. “Everybody expected that 2025 would be a turning point in the market, with many projects…
Silver out, air in
Just as Aberdeen in Scotland – where this article was written – is sometimes referred to as the “Silver City”, the village of Broken Hill in southeastern Australia is described…
Progress over perfection
The Norwegian continental shelf offers a wealth of opportunities for new industries alongside and after oil, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) has gained a solid foothold. Northern Lights has…
Being smart with data
On the fringe of the EAGE GET Conference in Rotterdam, I meet with May Zhang, who is representing Carbon Guardian in the start-up zone. We previously met at the Annual…
Are the problems around the Gorgon CO2 storage project proof that CCS does not work?
“The world’s largest CCS project, the one that underpins CCS as a climate solution, as advocated by the oil and gas companies. But as the graph shows from the data…
How a sandbox model caused an epiphany
“I think I watched it about 50 times,” Sean tells me when we meet online on a rainy morning. He refers to a video published by the FluidFlower research team…