A geologists’ paradise
The hotel kindly hosting the Aberdeen evening lectures organised by the GESGB should have looked at the programme before deciding not to man the bar last night. The talk was…
Subsurface Storage
Wind and solar energy – temporarily stored in a salt cavern
One of the major challenges for the energy transition is the storage of excess energy that can be used at times when the wind does not blow or the sun…
The race for pressure space
Another pressure plot without values on the Y-axis! That’s what I thought when watching Eirik Jenssen’s presentation at the Dig X Conference in Oslo yesterday. Eirik works as a Reservoir…
“It is important to embrace what matters in other subsurface realms”
“Having worked in oil and gas for years, I was convinced I knew how to drill a well”, Rodney Garrard says. “Then I moved to Switzerland to join NAGRA, the…
A room full of the best intentions
London, Thursday 14 December, GESGB CCS Symposium. I must admit that I’m getting a bit tired of the ongoing CO2 storage discussions. Why? Because I feel that we keep on…
“I think it is going to be mission impossible”
“The key challenge when it comes to storing CO2 is containment”, says Raffik Lazar, CEO of Dubai-based GeomodL International. “And the only element I can trust in the containment scenario…
Carbon storage in Leman – how feasible is that?
The first thing that probably springs to mind when thinking about CO2 injection into the Leman gas field in the UK Southern North Sea is the high number of wells…
Europe’s first full-scale onshore CO2 storage project
Gas Storage Denmark (GSD) is currently in the detailed engineering phase of Europe’s first large-scale, commercially operational onshore CO2 storage facility (CO2RYLUS). This initiative aims to accelerate the development of…
Exploring CO2 storage efficiency: striving for clarity
Prior to building a full 3D model of a carbon store, the mass of CO2 that can be stored in a reservoir can be calculated by multiplying the pore volume by the…
Are Sleipner and Snøhvit calling into question the long-term viability of CCS?
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
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
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,…