Mapping thief sands, for CCS purposes
From CO2 storage licences to research on seal integrity risk, carbon capture and storage is featuring in the news this week.
Subsurface Storage
Norwegian Government decides on funding for CO2 transport and storage project
The Northern Lights project is the transport and storage component of Longship, the Norwegian Government’s full-scale carbon capture and storage project. “Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is important to achieve…
Geoscience in a Low Carbon Future
The role of a petroleum geoscientist is evolving with the energy transition, but geoscience is still of vital importance to the future of energy. Recent events regarding the global Covid-19…
How to justify not to drill a well when no well has been drilled before?
The offshore of Belgium is small. It’s the smallest offshore area of all countries surrounding the North Sea. Yet, not a single deep well has been drilled so far. Because…
Rystad Launches Renewables Solution
In order to monitor, track and analyse global data coming from the renewable energy industry, Rystad Energy recently announced the launch of its Renewables Solution data, analytics and advisory service.…
Ruminations on CO₂
Carbon dioxide: least wanted – or most wanted accessory? Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is not a popular gas these days. Industry, governments and even individuals are actively trying to reduce its…
The North Sea offers great potential to feature in the energy transition, but urgency is needed
Dutch research programme looks at how to smartly link the various energy functions in the North Sea to arrive at a climate-neutral energy system.
Another Triassic reservoir on the radar for carbon storage in the UK?
The Oil and Gas Authority receives an application for the appraisal and storage of Carbon Dioxide in the Liverpool Bay area
Triassic reservoirs back on the Carbon Storage stage
In a press release issued on Wednesday last week, Equinor detailed plans to build a clean hydrogen plant in the UK which includes offshore carbon capture and storage.
Green light for a new industry
– The Northern Lights project could be the first step towards developing a carbon capture and storage (CCS) value chain, needed to reach the global climate goals of the Paris…
Striving to be a world leader
An inaugural CO2CRC CCS Policy Forum is being convened to develop a consensus industry view on a practical CCS policy framework that will stimulate CCS project investment and development in…
Eos CCS well confirms CO2 storage potential
The exploration well 31/5-7 (EOS) in EL 001 encountered a total of 173 metres of water-wet sandstone in the Aurora prospect, with good to very good reservoir quality in the…