The Global CCS Institute launched The Global Status of CCS: 2016 at a dedicated event at the 22nd conference of the parties (COP 22) in Marrakech on Tuesday, 15 November.
The Global Status of CCS: 2016 report is an essential reference for industry, government, research bodies, and the broader community, providing a comprehensive overview of global and regional CCS developments.
Following the report launch, we will run a number of webinars commencing in November 2016, through to early 2017.
A Summary of the Global Status of CCS: 2016 will be accessible on our website from 15 November, and includes updates on key CCS facilities, including two major facilities now in operation:
Shell’s Quest Project in Canada
Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project in Japan
These projects are significant 2016 milestones and testament to the safety, reliability and cost-effectiveness of CCS as an integral technology to meeting Paris Agreement climate change targets.
Please join us for the first of the Global Status of CCS: 2016 webinar series.
Saline Aquifer Storage Performance at the Quest CCS Project
As one of a handful of large-scale CCS projects currently injecting CO2 into a dedicated saline aquifer storage site, Shell’s Quest project offers a unique case study into the performance of dedicated storage. The Quest project injects CO2 into the Basal Cambrian Sandstone located 2 km below the surface. After the first year of operations, the Quest reservoir has exceeded internal expectations. While the original premise called for eight wells, today only two of three constructed injection wells take 100 per cent of project volumes (~140 tonnes /hr).
In this webinar, Simon O’Brien, Shell Quest Subsurface Manager, discussed storage performance at Quest after one year of operations as well as early results from the measurement, monitoring, and verification (MMV) plan.
Unitization is the process of developing an oil or gas field that spans multiple license or international boundaries as a single unit. It ensures optimal resource recovery and maximizes value for the involved parties and states. Historically, the "rule of capture" led to inefficient development as individual operators sought to quickly extract resources. Modern unitization agreements establish initial participation shares and include provisions for later redeterminations based on new technical data. They aim to facilitate cooperative development while equitably allocating costs and production among stakeholders.
What are my 3P Reserves? Haas Petroleum Engineering Serviceshaasengineering
What is the best way to estimate your 3P reserves? President of Haas Petroleum Engineering Services Thad Toups gave this presentation on Haas' internal analytics and auditing methodology.
Moffett Restoration Advisory Board Hangar One Update July 14, 2011Steve Williams
This presentation provides an update on the removal action at Hangar 1 at the former NAS Moffett Field. It discusses the project objective to control PCB release from the hangar according to plans. Monitoring shows no impacts and emissions are controlled. Work has included historic mitigation, scaffolding installation, siding and window removal, washing, and coating the steel frame. Additional activities addressed the clam shell doors and a roof beacon. Fieldwork is ongoing with completion expected in spring 2012.
The document discusses CCS activities in Qatar and their relevance to the GCC region. It outlines Qatar's policy on CCS, including its support for including CCS projects under the Clean Development Mechanism. It also summarizes Qatar's carbon storage research through the Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre, which conducts fundamental research on carbon storage in carbonate reservoirs over 10 years with $70 million funding. The research aims to improve oil recovery and carbon storage through reservoir characterization, pore/fracture scale modeling, and developing integrated simulation tools.
The SPE Foundation and member donations primarily fund the SPE Distinguished Lecturer Program. Companies also support the program by allowing employees to serve as lecturers. Additional support comes from AIME. The program provides 30 minute presentations on reservoir topics. Robert Hawkes will present on hydraulic fracture flowback dynamics, discussing load fluid recovery and its implications for long term production. His presentation will cover laboratory observations, field data, and diagnostic tools to understand flowback mechanisms and estimate ultimate load fluid recovery.
Retreating ice uncovers major discovery potential for CRD-Porphyry system at ...Stephan Bogner
Core Assets Corp. in Discovery Mode: Assays Pending / Exciting times for shareholders of Core Assets Corp. as the stock has been performing strongly over the past few weeks, rising from an intraday-low of $0.065 in mid-August to an intraday-high of $0.33 last week. The company recently announced to have completed its phase-2 exploration program at its Blue Property at the northern edge of the Golden Triangle in British Columbia, Canada. Today, Core Assets announced a major property expansion.
The document summarizes the methods used to characterize a shale reservoir and determine its original gas in place (OGIP) and CO2 storage capacity. Key steps included discretizing structure maps, uploading data to Matlab for surface maps, digitizing well logs, calculating petrophysical properties, and using Langmuir isotherm coefficients to estimate OGIP and storage capacity. Total OGIP was estimated at 14.12 trillion standard cubic feet with the highest values in the bottom center. Total CO2 storage capacity was 14.58 trillion standard cubic feet, also highest in the bottom center. Monte Carlo analysis was used to account for uncertainties.
This document summarizes a presentation on actinide and brine chemistry in salt repositories. It discusses the rationale for studying actinide/brine systems in salt repositories, including regulatory requirements to address low probability scenarios. It also discusses how repository design and geotechnical issues impact actinide/brine chemistry through factors like brine availability and redox conditions. Finally, it provides an overview of various activities related to actinide/brine chemistry, including the NEA Pitzer database and upcoming workshops on the topic.
This document summarizes the Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership activities related to CO2 storage and enhanced oil recovery. It provides an overview of the PCOR region, key projects including Bell Creek, Aquistore, and Zama, and lessons learned from the Weyburn Project. The PCOR aims to demonstrate CO2 storage at commercial scale through integrated site characterization, modeling, risk assessment, and monitoring, verification, and accounting activities to ensure safe and permanent CO2 storage.
The document discusses platinum and palladium targets at the Turnagain project in northwest British Columbia. It summarizes a preliminary economic assessment that included inferred resources and notes such resources are too speculative to have demonstrated economic viability. The Turnagain project features a nickel resource within an ultramafic body and soil samples have found platinum and palladium anomalies elsewhere on the property. Drilling at the DB target zone within the Attic ultramafic body encountered platinum and palladium mineralization near an interpreted contact between older and younger intrusive units, representing a prospective target for further exploration.
Carbon Dioxide Properties and the Role of Impurities in the Subsurface - presentation by Martin Trusler in the Effects of Impurities on CO2 Properties session at the UKCCSRC Cardiff Biannual Meeting, 10-11 September 2014
Key aspects of reservoir evaluation for deep water reservoirsM.T.H Group
The document summarizes key aspects of reservoir evaluation for deep water projects. It discusses challenges including geomechanics, reservoir characterization of thin beds and compartmentalization, and flow assurance requiring accurate fluid characterization. Reservoir characterization is identified as the biggest risk due to complex lithology, thin beds, and low contrast pay. Accurate fluid analysis and asphaltene characterization can help determine reservoir connectivity. Operator priorities include minimizing operational risk through rig efficiency and completion/production reliability. Reservoir evaluation is critical for deep water projects due to significant costs.
- Henri Silalahi has over 17 years of experience in oil and gas operations with companies like Chevron, Schlumberger, Pertamina, and Elnusa.
- He has a Master's degree from Colorado School of Mines and has worked on projects in Indonesia, USA, and Kuwait.
- Some of his roles include project manager, subsurface advisor, development geologist, and formation evaluation specialist. He has expertise in various EOR methods, reservoir modeling, and field development.
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Sandia National Laboratories and Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) are collaborating to develop improved basin-scale groundwater flow models near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) salt repository. In 2016, they made progress updating older models to include density-dependent flow and incorporate new data. Moving forward, they plan to generate new meshes, implement unsaturated flow, update boundary conditions, and include geochemical tracers to further refine the hydrogeological conceptual model of the region.
Greenstreet CW - Cooper Basin Unconventional Resources APPEA 2015Carl Greenstreet
1) Santos has been exploring and appraising unconventional gas resources in the Cooper Basin of Australia for over 20 years, with increasing success.
2) There are four main unconventional targets in the Permian sequence - tight sands, shale, deep coal, and hybrid shale - each with proven gas content and flow.
3) Santos' approach involves long-term appraisal of multiple regions and targets through exploration, appraisal, and development/appraisal phases to prove up the commercial potential at scale.
This document summarizes a study evaluating different multistage hydraulic fracturing patterns in naturally fractured reservoirs using a coupled geomechanics fracture and flow model. The study models three fracturing patterns - conventional, zipper, and alternating - in a field case with multiple horizontal wells. Simulation results show the zipper pattern provides the highest long-term production rates and cumulative oil volume over 20 years compared to the other patterns. The zipper pattern is recommended as the optimal completion strategy for this type of reservoir.
The weakness of reservoir simulations is the lack of quantity and quality of the required input; their strength is the ability to vary one parameter at a time. Therefore, reservoir simulations are an appropriate tool to evaluate relative uncertainty but absolute forecasts can be misleading, leading to poor business decisions. As recovery processes increase in complexity, the impact of such decisions may have a major impact on the project viability. A responsible use of reservoir simulations is discussed, addressing both technical users and decision makers. The danger of creating a false confidence in forecasts and the value of simulating complex processes are demonstrated with examples. This is a call for the return of the reservoir engineer who is in control of the simulations and not controlled by them, and the decision maker who appreciates a black & white graph of a forecast with realistic uncertainties over a 3-D hologram in colour.
SRK provides underground mining expertise and services to optimize project value. They utilize an innovative planning methodology to select the appropriate mining method based on deposit characteristics and client goals. This methodology focuses on understanding the complete mining context to establish a robust plan. Case studies describe projects where SRK assisted with feasibility studies, mine planning, transition from open pit to underground, and evaluating mining methods to minimize risks and costs. SRK's services include ventilation design, backfill analysis, cost modeling, life-of-mine planning, and geotechnical analysis.
Webinar series: Public engagement, education and outreach for carbon capture ...Global CCS Institute
The public engagement, education and outreach for CCS Webinar Series kicked off this September with a stellar opportunity to join three international public engagement experts, as they reflected on the key research findings and lessons learned from over 10 years of social research and project engagement experience.
World-renowned social researcher and IEAGHG Social Research Network Chair Peta Ashworth started the discussion by setting out her key lessons learned, and what future challenges and opportunities she perceives for public engagement with CCS.
An expert panel made up of Sarah Wade, Environmental Regulation and Policy Consultant and Coordinator of the Outreach Working Group for the US Department of Energy Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Initiative, and Norm Sacuta, Communication Manager at the Petroleum Technology Research Centre and Director of Communications for the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project, then discussed these conclusions and their own experiences of engaging the public, before opening the Webinar up to questions from the audience.
This entire Webinar Series has been designed to hear directly from the experts and project practitioners researching and delivering public engagement, education and outreach best practice for CCS.
This first Webinar combined elements of social research with real world application and discussion, showcasing important learnings, and concluding with links to further publications and resources for those wishing to learn more.
Water use of thermal power plants equipped with CO2 capture systemsGlobal CCS Institute
The potential for increased water use has often been noted as a challenge to the widespread deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Early studies, that are widely referenced and cited in discussions of CCS, indicated that installation of a capture system would nearly double water consumption for thermal power generation, while more recent studies show different results. The Global CCS Institute has conducted a comprehensive review of data available in order to clarify messages around water consumption associated with installation of a capture system. Changes in water use estimates over time have been evaluated in terms of capture technology, cooling systems, and how the data are reported.
Guido Magneschi, Institute’s Senior Advisor – Carbon Capture, and co-author of the study, presented the results of the review and illustrated the main conclusions.
Este protocolo establece las pautas para garantizar la alimentación y nutrición adecuada de los usuarios de un centro, asignando roles a los médicos, técnicos, dietistas y nutricionistas. El protocolo especifica que se notificará el menú diario, se ajustará a requerimientos dietéticos, se prepararán y administrarán los alimentos siguiendo las horas establecidas, y se proveerán ayudas técnicas a quienes las necesiten.
The Global CCS Institute was pleased to run the first of a three-part webinar series on CO2 storage on Wednesday 28th August 2013. This webinar series will be presented in Spanish, and is part of the Global CCS Institute’s capacity development program with the Mexican Academic Council of Earth Science Schools on the education of carbon capture and storage (CCS).
The first webinar focused on ‘Methodologies and guidelines for selection of storage sites in saline aquifers’. The Institute is pleased that Vanessa Nuñez, Research Scientist Associate at the Gulf Coast Carbon Center of the University of Texas at Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology, will be presenting this webinar series.
Vanessa serves as Principal Investigator for several applied CCS projects. She holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering from Universidad Central de Venezuela, an MS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA in Energy and Mineral Resources also from the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the Bureau of Economic Geology, Vanessa was a Senior Reservoir Engineer at Chevron Energy Technology’s Carbon Storage group, where she served as company representative for several Joint Industry Projects, such as the Weyburn-Midale IEA project. Back in her native Venezuela, she worked as an Instructor Professor at Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Parts two and three of this webinar series will be held later in 2013. Stay tuned for registration information.
Presentation given by Auli Niemi of Uppsala University on "Quantification of Saline Aquifers for Geological Storage of CO2 – Experiences from MUSTANG Project" at the EC FP7 Projects: Leading the way in CCS implementation event, London, 14-15 April 2014
Electrostatic precipitators and scrubbersNeel Porwal
An electrostatic precipitator (ESP) uses electrostatic forces to remove particles from gases. It works by charging particles as they pass through a corona, or glow zone, then collecting them on oppositely charged plates. ESPs are highly efficient, able to remove over 99% of particles down to 0.1 μm, while minimally slowing gas flow. They have high capital costs but lower maintenance costs than wet scrubbers.
Adsorption process for voc (volatile organic compounds copySaiful Islam
The document discusses the adsorption process for removing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from air or gas streams. It defines adsorption and describes how VOCs accumulate on the surface of adsorbent materials like activated carbon. Fixed bed adsorption is commonly used, where the VOCs are removed as the contaminated air passes through a column packed with adsorbent. Key factors that influence the adsorption process include temperature, gas concentration, bed length, and regeneration of the adsorbent material. Common adsorbents for VOC removal include activated carbon beads and fibers, which can be used in continuous adsorption/desorption systems.
Development of an aqueous ammonia-based post-combustion capture technology fo...Global CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute with ANLEC R&D will hold a series of webinars throughout 2016. Each webinar highlights a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website. The fifth webinar of the series looked at the development of an aqueous ammonia-based post-combustion capture technology for Australian conditions.
CSIRO has been developing aqueous ammonia (NH3)-based post-combustion CO2 capture (PCC) technology for its application under Australian conditions since 2008. Previous pilot-plant trials at Delta Electricity’s Munmorah Power Station demonstrated the technical feasibility of the process and confirmed some of the expected benefits. With further support from the Australian Government and ANLEC R&D, CSIRO has worked closely with universities in Australia and China to develop an advanced aqueous NH3-based CO2 capture technology. The advanced technology incorporates a number of innovative features which significantly improve its economic feasibility. This webinar presented the advancements made from a recently completed project funded by ANLEC R&D, and was presented by Dr Hai Yu and Dr Kangkang Li from CSIRO Energy.
Convective mixing of CO2 in saline aquifers is an important physical process that can significantly increase the amount of CO2 that is securely trapped in the aquifer. This process happens on a relatively small length scale, and as such, is difficult to accurately model in numerical simulations of geological storage on CO2.
In this webinar, Christopher Green and Jonathan Ennis-King, from CSIRO Energy presented an overview of Convective mixing of CO2 in geological storage and discuss the state-of-the art research into this interesting phenomenon.
A Better Life with a Healthy Planet: Pathways to Net Zero EmissionsGlobal CCS Institute
In July, the Shell Scenarios team released “A Better Life with a Healthy Planet: Pathways to Net-Zero Emissions”, a supplement that builds on Shell's New Lens Scenarios published in 2013, which showed that economic growth coupled with near net-zero emissions is a challenging but achievable vision.
The energy system responds to the demands of a growing number of people in the world with aspirations to make life materially better for themselves and their children. Meeting this demand will probably require approximately doubling the size of the global energy system over the course of this century. And that means the potential growth of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases – unless something is done at the same time to reduce these emissions, so that there are no net additions. It is valuable to recognise, however, that a net-zero emissions world is not necessarily a world without any emissions anywhere. It is a world where remaining emissions are offset elsewhere in the system, an outcome that is more rapidly achievable and hence more consistent with limiting the accumulation of greenhouse gases. This means that the world will need “negative” emissions in some sectors to offset remaining emissions in others such that zero additional emissions enter the atmosphere – the so-called “net-zero.”
Shell’s work led to a conclusion that that providing the necessary energy in the context of net-zero CO2 emissions is technically feasible but it will be very challenging. We know that such a future will be built on a patchwork of solutions, not a single pathway. Solutions may work in one place even if they aren’t necessarily suitable for every situation. And it may be difficult to predict whether a solution that works well in the lab or on a small scale can succeed in global deployment. In this booklet, we distil what we have learned so far in an attempt to answer a fundamental question: How could the energy system evolve to provide “a better life for all with a healthy planet?”
The webinar was presented by David Hone. David is Chief Climate Change Adviser for Shell, a board member and former Chair of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and a board member of C2ES in Washington. He is a regular climate blogger and is the author of a series of books on the climate issue under the title “Putting the Genie Back”. David provided a summary of the scenario and was followed with a live Q&A session with the webinar audience.
Effective enforcement of underground storage of carbon dioxide – A presentati...Global CCS Institute
Dr Meredith Gibbs, a leading Australian environmental and climate change lawyer and the Institute’s inaugural Legal Fellow, presented the findings of her research programme on the effective enforcement of the underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Highlighted as a critical issue for increasing public and industry confidence in CCS, Dr Gibbs’ research has focused upon identifying the key features of an effective enforcement model for the underground storage of CO2 in five national/sub-national regimes in the Asia Pacific region.
Dr Gibbs’ examined the legal regimes of the Australian Commonwealth, the State of Victoria, Japan, Malaysia and China; focusing in particular upon the monitoring and verification (pre-and post-closure) requirements, site closure processes, technical information and data collection requirements, enforcement mechanisms and the allocation of roles and responsibilities for enforcement.
This webinar examined the findings of this research and the final report, which was published on the 8th August, identifying potential barriers to effective enforcement and highlighting opportunities for the improvement of both CCS-specific and existing regulatory models.
The South West Hub Project: Developing a project in unconventional geologyGlobal CCS Institute
The WA Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) has been investigating the Lesueur Formation on-shore South West of Western Australia.
The South West Hub project has been acquiring field data between 2011 and 2015 involving 2D and 3D seismic and four wells. The third generation of modelling has just been concluded.
This webinar provided an opportunity to understand how a project goes about establishing confidence in storage based on migration assisted trapping (MAT) in unconfined saline aquifers. The injection reservoir is heterogeneous and over 1,500 m thick with varying permeability layers that should support residual and solubility trapping for primary containment.
To assist the understanding of the challenges faced in characterising this ’unconventional’ play, Dominique Van Gent, the Coordinator of Carbon Strategy in the Department of Mines and Petroleum, and Sandeep Sharma, the Technical Advisor to the project, presented on the findings including:
- Data Acquisition
- Static modelling
- The results of dynamic modelling
- Challenges for the future
Callide oxyfuel research project, Part 2: CO2 quality control prior to compre...Global CCS Institute
The webinar summarized research from the Callide oxyfuel project in Australia. It discussed measurements taken during transitions between air and oxy-fuel firing in the plant's fabric filter. The measurements found the filter captured over 90% of mercury, with burner configuration most influencing mercury levels. Sulfur trioxide measurements were very low at 0.6-3.6 ppm. The webinar also reviewed a low-pressure caustic scrubber's role in removing sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and mercury before compression. The scrubber was effective but may not be the most economic solution for a commercial plant.
Dispersion modelling for CO2 pipelines: Fit for purpose and best practice tec...Global CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute with ANLEC R&D will hold a series of webinars throughout 2016. Each webinar will highlight a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website. This is the fourth webinar of the series, which focused on the development of standards and regulations for CO2 pipelines for future CCS projects. This webinar discussed best practice pipeline design for CO2 pipelines, with particular reference to risk assessment requirements.
This presentation introduced a report that was prepared to inform the future development of CO2 pipelines in Australia, as part of integrated CO2 capture and storage infrastructure. This project was undertaken to provide guidance on best practice for the use of CO2 dispersion modelling within the context of the Australian pipeline design standard. The project deliverable was a comprehensive report that provides guidance on the current international best practice in modelling CO2 dispersion, and identifies appropriate, fit-for-purpose modelling tools that can be used at different stages in the pipeline design process. One of the main conclusions from this project was that sufficient information and modelling tools are available to allow a new CO2 pipeline to be designed in accordance with Australian Standard 2885.
This webinar was presented by Phil Johnson from Sherpa Consulting.
Webinar: The cost effectiveness of natural gas combined cycle power plants wi...Global CCS Institute
This webinar will presented the findings of a study to assess the economic viability of natural gas combined-cycle power plants with CO2 capture and storage (NGCC-CCS) in climate change mitigation strategies, emphasising the use of renewable energy and natural gas for electric power generation. In this study, the cost of NGCC-CCS was compared on a level playing field to those of intermittent renewable energy systems (IRES) and energy storage technologies as a means of reducing power sector greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) of NGCC-CCS was compared to that of offshore wind, photovoltaic systems, and concentrated solar power (CSP) together with pumped hydro storage (PHS), compressed air energy storage (CAES), and Li-ion, ZEBRA and Zn-Br battery storage systems. The cost of NGCC-CCS as a backup technology in conjunction with IRES also was assessed.
At this webinar, Machteld van den Broek, senior researcher at the Utrecht University, presented the findings of the study. Her expertise is energy systems modelling and CCS. Among others, she is involved in the CATO-2 programme, the second Dutch national research programme on CCS. During the webinar Niels Berghout, junior researcher at the Utrecht University and co-author of this study, assisted during the Q&A session. Professor Edward Rubin from Carnegie Mellon University also contributed to this study.
Perspectives on the role of CO2 capture and utilisation (CCU) in climate chan...Global CCS Institute
Achieving the target set during COP21 will require the deployment of a diverse portfolio of solutions, including fuel switching, improvements in energy efficiency, increasing use of nuclear and renewable power, as well as carbon capture and storage (CCS).
It is in the context of CCS that carbon capture and utilisation (CCU), or conversion (CCC), is often mentioned. Once we have captured and purified the CO2, it is sometimes argued that we should aim to convert the CO2 to useful products such as fuels or plastics, or otherwise use the CO2 in processes such as enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR). This is broadly referred to as CCU.
In this webinar, Niall Mac Dowell, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Centre for Process Systems Engineering and the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, presented about the scale of the challenge associated with climate change mitigation and contextualise the value which CO2 conversion and utilisation options can provide.
The document summarizes information from a presentation by the Global CCS Institute on carbon capture and storage (CCS) readiness. It defines CCS readiness and its benefits. It discusses regulatory and economic drivers for CCS readiness policies and provides an example of a CCS retrofit feasibility study conducted in Guangdong Province, China. The presentation covered what CCS is, definitions of capture, transport, and storage readiness, reasons for pursuing CCS readiness, and factors to consider for CCS readiness policies.
Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for CCS. Part 2: CC...Global CCS Institute
The second webinar in the public engagement, education and outreach for CCS Series took a more in-depth look at CCS education, specifically the creation and delivery of CCS education programs within developing countries.
Education has long been recognised as a critical component in understanding how science, society, and adaptation influence thinking about issues impacting our climate. As an emerging technology with an important role to play in shaping our low carbon energy future, CCS plays a role in our teaching around these topics in both developed and developing countries.
In this webinar, geochemist and renowned CCS education professional Sallie Greenberg, PhD, was joined by the Stakeholder Engagement Team from the South African Centre for Carbon Capture & Storage (SACCCS) to discuss the key learnings and experiences highlighted in, CCS education in developing countries a recent guidance paper for the Global CCS Institute.
Drawing on learning from existing CCS education initiatives and good practice from the wider education literature, Dr Greenberg highlighted areas of universal approach while facing particular challenges when working in the context of a developing country. Ms Polly Modiko, the Head of Stakeholder Engagement at SACCCS, then introduced the comprehensive program of education and outreach activities that the SACCCS team have been developing to support exploration of opportunities for an onshore Pilot CO2 Storage Project (PCSP) in South Africa.
This entire Webinar Series has been designed to hear directly from the experts and project practitioners researching and delivering public engagement, education and outreach best practice for CCS. This second Webinar combined elements of education research with real world application and discussion, showcasing important learnings, and concluding with links to further education resources for those wishing to learn more.
Callide oxyfuel research project, Part 1: Removal of SOx, NOx and mercury gas...Global CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute with ANLEC R&D will hold a series of webinars throughout 2016. Each webinar will highlight a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website. This was the second webinar of the series, which focused on experiments quantifying and optimising the removal of SOx, NOx and mercury gases using compressed gaseous slip streams from the CPU as part of the Callide Oxyfuel Project.
The Callide Oxyfuel Project in central Queensland, Australia, has demonstrated carbon capture using oxyfuel technology on a retrofitted 30 MWe boiler. The project comprised of 2 x 330 t/day air separation units, a 30 MWe oxy-fuel boiler and a 75 t/day CO2 capture plant. The plant was commissioned in 2012 and operated for three years achieving nominally 10,000 hours of industrial operation in oxy-combustion mode.
The project has been able to demonstrate CO2 capture rates from the Oxyfuel flue gas stream to the CO2 capture plant in excess of 85%, and producing a high quality CO2 product suitable for geological storage. In addition, other benefits observed from the oxy-firing and CO2 capture demonstration have included: (i) increased boiler combustion efficiency; (ii) greater than 50% reduction in stack NOx mass emission rates; and (iii) almost complete removal of all toxic gaseous emissions including SOx, NOx, particulates and trace elements from the flue gas stream in the CO2 capture plant (CPU).
This webinar provided a technical presentation of experiments quantifying and optimising the removal of SOx, NOx and mercury gases using compressed gaseous slip streams from the CPU, complemented by plant measurements by the University Of Newcastle, supported by Australian National Low Emission R&D. This webinar was presented by Professor Terry Wall and Dr Rohan Stanger from The University of Newcastle, Australia.
Will it leak?: Discussions of leakage risk from subsurface storage of carbon ...IEA-ETSAP
The document discusses carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the potential risks of leakage from subsurface storage of carbon dioxide. It provides background on CCS, explaining that carbon dioxide is captured from industrial sources and injected underground for permanent storage. It then discusses four main types of potential subsurface leakage: 1) capillary leakage if seal rocks have larger particles, 2) exceeding the fracture gradient of the seal, 3) leakage along or across faults, and 4) leakage from new or legacy boreholes. The document analyzes case studies of both CCS and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects to illustrate examples of each leakage type. It concludes that CCS/CCUS has a low overall risk but is not
Open-hole sand-control completions using expandable sand screens (ESS) offer advantages over traditional cased-hole completions including improved production rates and lower installation costs. The documents discusses several case studies where formate brines and ESS were used together, setting world records for longest, hottest, and deepest ESS installations. This included projects by Shell in the Brigantine field in the UK North Sea and by Saudi Aramco in the K-field in Saudi Arabia, improving well economics in both cases.
The document summarizes Richard Ademola Ogundele's seminar presentation on unconventional reservoirs. It defines unconventional reservoirs as those requiring special recovery operations outside conventional practices. Examples provided include tight gas sands with low permeability, coal-bed methane stored in coal seams, and shale oil extracted from oil shale rock. The case study describes coal-bed methane development in the San Juan Basin of Colorado, where methane is stored adsorbed onto coal surfaces and released by removing water from coal seams. Enhanced recovery methods like injecting carbon dioxide or nitrogen can increase methane production rates and reserves in coal-bed reservoirs. Recent trends show unconventionals like tight gas, shale gas, and coal-bed methane becoming
This document discusses challenges with cementing in deepwater environments, including shallow water flows and gas hydrate destabilization due to cement heat of hydration. It presents a solution of optimizing cement slurry design to reduce heat of hydration through lowering the calcium silicate reaction enthalpies. Experimental data shows that a cement system designed with a lower heat of hydration reduces temperature rise and develops strength rapidly enough to prevent issues. This optimized system was successfully implemented in the field to help prevent gas hydrate destabilization during cementing.
This document discusses cementing processes used in oil well construction. It describes the dry and wet processes for cement manufacturing, including the key steps and materials used. It then covers the objectives of primary and secondary cementing in oil wells, including supporting casing, restricting fluid movement, and sealing off zones. Finally, it discusses various cement additives used to modify properties like viscosity, density, strength and permeability to suit specific well conditions.
SolTech is a Canadian engineering firm specializing in engineered salt cavern solutions for underground gas and liquid storage. They have developed innovations to improve traditional salt cavern mining methods, including using nitrogen as a shaping fluid and the SolTech N2 Surge Vessel to safely handle pressure kicks. These methods provide benefits like lower costs, improved environmental protection, and allowing continuous operation during kicks. SolTech provides complete engineering solutions for salt cavern storage projects worldwide.
The document discusses CO2DeepStore, a UK company focused on CCS projects that was acquired by Petrofac. It defines what is meant by a CO2 leak from storage and outlines the working hypothesis that geological storage reservoirs will not leak CO2 to the surface due to caprock integrity, pressure management, and residual saturation trapping any migrating CO2. The conclusion is that while leakage is very unlikely, operational leaks from pipelines or equipment are more probable and should be the focus of further research.
Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) involves capturing CO2 emissions from power plants and industry, transporting it, and storing it away from the atmosphere. The document discusses different methods for capturing CO2 including pre-combustion, post-combustion, and oxy-fuel combustion. It also examines options for storing the captured CO2, primarily underground in geological formations or underwater in ocean storage. The goal of CCS is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change caused by fossil fuel usage.
The cement industry is worldwide one of the main contributors to man-made CO2 emissions, estimated at 7% of global emissions.
To keep pace with the demand and pressure to reduce CO2 emissions, a shift to sustainable building materials for housing and infrastructure must still be continued.
Cement manufacturers can make significant progress toward sustainability goals with alternative fuels and efficiency projects by reducing clinker content through cementitious additives (SCM).
This document summarizes the process of oil and gas exploration. It discusses how oil and gas deposits are formed over millions of years, and the characteristics needed for reservoirs to trap hydrocarbons underground. Surveys including geological analysis and seismic surveys are used to identify potential reservoir locations. Exploration wells are then drilled to test formations, and core samples and logging provide data on the resource. If oil or gas is found, further appraisal wells evaluate the reservoir extent and productivity.
The document discusses carbon dioxide storage and monitoring in the UK. It provides information on:
1. The UK's offshore storage potential and capacity for storing carbon dioxide in depleted oil and gas fields and saline aquifers.
2. Current UK carbon capture and storage projects, including the Peterhead and White Rose projects which involve storing 1Mt of CO2 per year from power plants.
3. Research on storage performance, including modeling injection and pressure control, monitoring projects like at Sleipner where seismic imaging has tracked the stored CO2 plume over time, and developing effective monitoring techniques.
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Managing carbon geological storage and natural resources in sedimentary basinsGlobal CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute, together with Australian National Low Emissions Coal Research and Development (ANLEC R&D), will hold a series of webinars throughout 2017. Each webinar will highlight a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website.
This is the eighth webinar of the series and will present on basin resource management and carbon storage. With the ongoing deployment of CCS facilities globally, the pore space - the voids in the rock deep in sedimentary basins – are now a commercial resource. This is a relatively new concept with only a few industries utilising that pore space to date.
This webinar presented a framework for the management of basin resources including carbon storage. Prospective sites for geological storage of carbon dioxide target largely sedimentary basins since these provide the most suitable geological settings for safe, long-term storage of greenhouse gases. Sedimentary basins can host different natural resources that may occur in isolated pockets, across widely dispersed regions, in multiple locations, within a single layer of strata or at various depths.
In Australia, the primary basin resources are groundwater, oil and gas, unconventional gas, coal and geothermal energy. Understanding the nature of how these resources are distributed in the subsurface is fundamental to managing basin resource development and carbon dioxide storage. Natural resources can overlap laterally or with depth and have been developed successfully for decades. Geological storage of carbon dioxide is another basin resource that must be considered in developing a basin-scale resource management system to ensure that multiple uses of the subsurface can sustainably and pragmatically co-exist.
This webinar was presented by Karsten Michael, Research Team Leader, CSIRO Energy.
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Northern Lights: A European CO2 transport and storage project Global CCS Institute
The Global CCS Institute hosted the final webinar of its "Telling the Norwegian CCS Story" series which presented Northern Lights. This project is part of the Norwegian full-scale CCS project which will include the capture of CO2 at two industrial facilities (cement and waste-to-energy plants), transport and permanent storage of CO2 in a geological reservoir on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Northern Lights aims to establish an open access CO2 transport and storage service for Europe. It is the first integrated commercial project of its kind able to receive CO2 from a variety of industrial sources. The project is led by Equinor with two partners Shell and Total. Northern Lights aims to drive the development of CCS in Europe and globally.
Webinar: Policy priorities to incentivise large scale deployment of CCSGlobal CCS Institute
The Global CCS Institute released a new report highlighting strategic policy priorities for the large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS). The Institute’s report also reviews the progress achieved until now with existing policies and the reasons behind positive investment decisions for the current 23 large-scale CCS projects in operation and construction globally.
Telling the Norwegian CCS Story | PART II: CCS: the path to a sustainable and...Global CCS Institute
The document discusses carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the cement industry in Norway. It provides background on HeidelbergCement, one of the world's largest producers of building materials. It details a CCS project at Norcem's cement plant in Brevik, Norway, which aims to capture 400,000 tons of CO2 per year. The captured CO2 would be transported by ship and stored permanently underground in geological formations in the North Sea. The project represents an opportunity for CCS technology to be commercialized at a large scale. However, it depends on support through the FEED study process and a decision by the Norwegian Parliament and HeidelbergCement in 2020.
Telling the Norwegian CCS Story | PART I: CCS: the path to sustainable and em...Global CCS Institute
In 2018, the Norwegian government announced its decision to continue the planning of a demonstration project for CO2 capture, transport and storage. This webinar focuses on the Fortum Oslo Varme CCS project. This is one of the two industrial CO2 sources in the Norwegian full-scale project.
At their waste-to-energy plant at Klemetsrud in Oslo, Fortum Oslo Varme produces electricity and district heating for the Oslo region by incinerating waste. Its waste-to-energy plant is one of the largest land-based sources of CO2 emissions in Norway, counting for about 20 % of the city of Oslo’s total emissions. The CCS project in Oslo is an important step towards a sustainable waste system and the creation of a circular economy. It will be the first energy recovery installation for waste disposal treatment with full-scale CCS.
Fortum Oslo Varme has understood the enormous potential for the development of a CCS industry in the waste-to-energy industry. The company is working to capture 90 % of its CO2 emissions, the equivalent of 400 000 tons of CO2 per year. This project will open new opportunities to reduce emissions from the waste sector in Norway and globally. Carbon capture from waste incineration can remove over 90 million tons of CO2 per year from existing plants in Europe. There is high global transfer value and high interest in the industry for the project in Oslo.
The waste treated consists of almost 60 % biological carbon. Carbon capture at waste-to-energy plants will therefore be so-called BIO-CCS (i.e. CCS from the incineration of organic waste, thereby removing the CO2 from the natural cycle).
Find out more about the project by listening to our webinar.
Decarbonizing Industry Using Carbon Capture: Norway Full Chain CCSGlobal CCS Institute
Industrial sectors such as steel, cement, iron, and chemicals production are responsible for over 20 percent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. To be on track to meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets established as part of the Paris Climate Accord, all sectors must find solutions to rapidly decarbonize, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is the only path for energy-intensive industries.
This webinar will explore how one country, Norway, is working to realize a large-scale Full Chain CCS project, where it is planning to apply carbon capture technology to several industrial facilities. This unique project explores capturing CO2 from three different industrial facilities - an ammonia production plant, a waste-to-energy plant, and a cement production facility. Captured CO2 will be then transported by ship to a permanent off-shore storage site operated as part of a collaboration between Statoil, Total, and Shell. When operational, Norway Full Chain CCS will capture and permanently store up to 1.5 million tons of CO2 per year.
During this webinar, Michael Carpenter, Senior Adviser at Gassnova, will provide an overview of the Norway Full Chain CCS, and discuss the value that Norway aims to derive from it. The key stakeholders working on this exciting project, and how they cooperate, will be also discussed. Gassnova is a Norwegian state enterprise focusing on CCS technology, which manages the Norway Full Chain CCS project.
Cutting Cost of CO2 Capture in Process Industry (CO2stCap) Project overview &...Global CCS Institute
The CO2StCap project is a four year initiative carried out by industry and academic partners with the aim of reducing capture costs from CO2 intensive industries (more info here). The project, led by Tel-Tek, is based on the idea that cost reduction is possible by capturing only a share of the CO2emissions from a given facility, instead of striving for maximized capture rates. This can be done in multiple ways, for instance by capturing only from the largest CO2 sources at individual multi-stack sites utilising cheap waste heat or adapting the capture volumes to seasonal changes in operations.
The main focus of this research is to perform techno-economic analyses for multiple partial CO2 capture concepts in order to identify economic optimums between cost and volumes captured. In total for four different case studies are developed for cement, iron & steel, pulp & paper and ferroalloys industries.
The first part of the webinar gave an overview of the project with insights into the cost estimation method used. The second part presented the iron & steel industry case study based on the Lulea site in Sweden, for which waste-heat mapping methodology has been used to assess the potential for partial capture via MEA-absorption. Capture costs for different CO2 sources were compared and discussed, demonstrating the viability of partial capture in an integrated steelworks.
Webinar presenters included Ragnhild Skagestad, senior researcher at Tel-Tek; Maximilian Biermann, PhD student at Division of Energy Technology, Chalmers University of Technology and Maria Sundqvist, research engineer at the department of process integration at Swerea MEFOS.
The Global CCS Institute and USEA co-hosted a briefing on the importance of R&D in advancing energy technologies on June 29 2017. This is the presentation given by Ron Munson, Global Lead-Capture at the Global CCS Institute.
The Global CCS Institute and USEA co-hosted a briefing on the importance of R&D in advancing energy technologies on June 29 2017. This is the presentation given by Alfred “Buz” Brown, Founder, CEO and Chairman of ION Engineering.
The Global CCS Institute and USEA co-hosted a briefing on the importance of R&D in advancing energy technologies on June 29 2017. This is the presentation given by Tim Merkel, Director, Research and Development Group at Membrane Technology & Research (MTR)
Mission Innovation aims to reinvigorate and accelerate global clean energy innovation with the objective to make clean energy widely affordable. Through a series of Innovation Challenges, member countries have pledged to support actions aimed at accelerating research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) in technology areas where MI members believe increased international attention would make a significant impact in our shared fight against climate change. The Innovation Challenges cover the entire spectrum of RD&D; from early stage research needs assessments to technology demonstration projects.
The Carbon Capture Innovation challenge aims to explore early stage research opportunities in the areas of Carbon Capture, Carbon Utilization, and Carbon Storage. The goal of the Carbon Capture Innovation Challenge is twofold: first, to identify and prioritize breakthrough technologies; and second, to recommend research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) pathways and collaboration mechanisms.
During the webinar, Dr Tidjani Niass, Saudi Aramco, and Jordan Kislear, US Department of Energy, provided an overview of progress to date. They also highlighted detail opportunities for business and investor engagement, and discuss future plans for the Innovation Challenge.
This webinar discussed two studies on achieving a low-carbon economy in the United States: the Risky Business Project and the U.S. Mid-Century Strategy Report. Four pathways were examined that could reduce US carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 through different technology mixes, including high renewables, high nuclear, high carbon capture and storage, and mixed resources. All pathways required upfront investments but achieved both emissions reductions and fuel savings over time. Implementation challenges included the pace of power plant construction, expanding the electric grid and building electric vehicle infrastructure. The webinar compared the pathways and findings to the U.S. Mid-Century Strategy Report.
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The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) is a Ministerial-level international climate change initiative that is focused on the development of improved cost-effective technologies for carbon capture and storage (CCS). As part of our commitment to raising awareness of CCS policies and technology, CSLF, with support from the Global CCS Institute, is running a series of webinars showcasing academics and researchers that are working on some of the most interesting CCS projects and developments from around the globe.
This first webinar comes to you from Abu Dhabi – the site of the Mid-Year CSLF Meeting and home of the Al Reyadah Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Project. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of the world’s major oil exporters, with some of the highest levels of CO2 emissions per capita. These factors alone make this a very interesting region for the deployment of CCUS both as an option for reducing CO2 emissions, but also linking these operations for the purposes of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations.
In the UAE, CCUS has attracted leading academic institutes and technology developers to work on developing advanced technologies for reducing CO2 emissions. On Wednesday, 26th April, we had the opportunity to join the Masdar Institute’s Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Mohammad Abu Zahra to learn about the current status and potential for CCUS in the UAE.
Mohammad presented an overview of the current large scale CCUS demonstration project in the UAE, followed by a presentation and discussion of the ongoing research and development activities at the Masdar Institute.
This webinar offered a rare opportunity to put your questions directly to this experienced researcher and learn more about the fascinating advances being made at the Masdar Institute.
Energy Security and Prosperity in Australia: A roadmap for carbon capture and...Global CCS Institute
On 15 February, a Roadmap titled for Energy Security and Prosperity in Australia: A roadmap for carbon capture and storage was released. The ACCS Roadmap contains analysis and recommendations for policy makers and industry on much needed efforts to ensure CCS deployment in Australia.
This presentation focused on the critical role CCS can play in Australia’s economic prosperity and energy security. To remain within its carbon budget, Australia must accelerate the deployment of CCS. Couple with this, only CCS can ensure energy security for the power sector and high-emissions industries whilst maintain the the vital role the energy sector plays in the Australian economy.
The webinar also detailed what is required to get Australia ready for widespread commercial deployment of CCS through specific set of phases, known as horizons in strategic areas including storage characterisation, legal and regulatory frameworks and public engagement and awareness.
The Roadmap serves as an important focal point for stakeholders advocating for CCS in Australia, and will provide a platform for further work feeding into the Australian Government’s review of climate policy in 2017 and beyond.
It is authored by the University of Queensland and Gamma Energy Technology, and was overseen by a steering committee comprising the Commonwealth Government, NSW Government, CSIRO, CO2CRC Limited, ACALET - COAL21 Fund and ANLEC R&D.
This webinar was presented by Professor Chris Greig, from The University of Queensland.
Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for CCS. Part 5: So...Global CCS Institute
The fifth webinar in the public engagement, education and outreach for CCS Series will explore the critically important subject of social site characterisation with the very researchers who named the process.
We were delighted to be able to reunite CCS engagement experts Sarah Wade and Sallie Greenberg, Ph.D. to revisit their 2011 research and guidance: ‘Social Site Characterisation: From Concept to Application’. When published, this research and toolkit helped early CCS projects worldwide to raise the bar on their existing engagement practices. For this webinar, we tasked these early thought leaders with reminding us of the importance of this research and considering the past recommendations in today’s context. Sarah and Sallie tackled the following commonly asked questions:
What exactly is meant by social site characterisation?
Why it is important?
What would they consider best practice for getting to understand the social intricacies and impacts of a CCS project site?
This entire Webinar Series has been designed to share leading research and best practice and consider these learnings as applied to real project examples. So for this fifth Webinar, we were really pleased to be joined by Ruth Klinkhammer, Senior Manager, Communications and Engagement at CMC Research Institutes. Ruth agreed to share some of her experiences and challenges of putting social site characterisation into practice onsite at some of CMC’s larger research projects.
This Webinar combined elements of public engagement research with real world application and discussion, explore important learnings and conclude with links to further resources for those wishing to learn more. This a must for anyone working in or studying carbon capture and storage or other CO2 abatement technologies. If you have ever nodded along at a conference where the importance of understanding stakeholders is acknowledged, but then stopped to wonder – what might that look like in practice? This Webinar is for you.
Mercury and other trace metals in the gas from an oxy-combustion demonstratio...Global CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute together with ANLEC R&D will hold a series of webinars throughout 2017. Each webinar will highlight a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website. This is the seventh webinar of the series and presented the results of a test program on the retrofitted Callide A power plant in Central Queensland.
The behaviour of trace metals and the related characteristics of the formation of fine particles may have important implications for process options, gas cleaning, environmental risk and resultant cost in oxy-fuel combustion. Environmental and operational risk will be determined by a range of inter-related factors including:
The concentrations of trace metals in the gas produced from the overall process;
Capture efficiencies of the trace species in the various air pollution control devices used in the process; including gas and particulate control devices, and specialised systems for the removal of specific species such as mercury;
Gas quality required to avoid operational issues such as corrosion, and to enable sequestration in a variety of storage media without creating unacceptable environmental risks; the required quality for CO2 transport will be defined by (future and awaited) regulation but may be at the standards currently required of food or beverage grade CO2; and
Speciation of some trace elements
Macquarie University was engaged by the Australian National Low Emissions Coal Research and Development Ltd (ANLEC R&D) to investigate the behaviour of trace elements during oxy-firing and CO2 capture and processing in a test program on the retrofitted Callide A power plant, with capability for both oxy and air-firing. Gaseous and particulate sampling was undertaken in the process exhaust gas stream after fabric filtration at the stack and at various stages of the CO2 compression and purification process. These measurements have provided detailed information on trace components of oxy-fired combustion gases and comparative measurements under air fired conditions. The field trials were supported by laboratory work where combustion took place in a drop tube furnace and modelling of mercury partitioning using the iPOG model.
The results obtained suggest that oxy-firing does not pose significantly higher environmental or operational risks than conventional air-firing. The levels of trace metals in the “purified” CO2 gas stream should not pose operational issues within the CO2 Processing Unit (CPU).
This webinar was presented by Peter Nelson, Professor of Environmental Studies, and Anthony Morrison, Senior Research Fellow, from the Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University.
Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for CCS. Part 4: Is...Global CCS Institute
Teesside Collective has been developing a financial support mechanism to kickstart an Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) network in the UK. This project would transform the Teesside economy, which could act as a pilot area in the UK as part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy.
The final report– produced by Pöyry Management Consulting in partnership with Teesside Collective – outlines how near-term investment in CCS can be a cost-effective, attractive proposition for both Government and energy-intensive industry.
The report was published on Teesside Collective’s website on 7 February. You will be able to view copies of the report in advance of the webinar.
We were delighted to welcome Sarah Tennison from Tees Valley Combined Authority back onto the webinar programme. Sarah was joined by Phil Hare and Stuart Murray from Pöyry Management Consulting, to take us through the detail of the model and business case for Industrial CCS.
This webinar offered a rare opportunity to speak directly with these project developers and understand more about their proposed financial support mechanism.
Laboratory-scale geochemical and geomechanical testing of near wellbore CO2 i...Global CCS Institute
To highlight the research and achievements of Australian researchers, the Global CCS Institute together with ANLEC R&D will hold a series of webinars throughout 2016 and 2017. Each webinar will highlight a specific ANLEC R&D research project and the relevant report found on the Institute’s website. This is the sixth webinar of the series and presented the results of chemical and mechanical changes that carbon dioxide (CO2) may have at a prospective storage complex in the Surat Basin, Queensland, Australia.
Earth Sciences and Chemical Engineering researchers at the University of Queensland have been investigating the effects of supercritical CO2 injection on reservoir properties in the near wellbore region as a result of geochemical reactions since 2011. The near wellbore area is critical for CO2 injection into deep geological formations as most of the resistance to flow occurs in this region. Any changes to the permeability can have significant economic impact in terms of well utilisation efficiency and compression costs. In the far field, away from the well, the affected reservoir is much larger and changes to permeability through blocking or enhancement have relatively low impact.
This webinar was presented by Prof Sue Golding and Dr Grant Dawson and will provide an overview of the findings of the research to assist understanding of the beneficial effects and commercial consequences of near wellbore injectivity enhancement as a result of geochemical reactions.
Webinar Series: Public engagement, education and outreach for CCS. Part 3: Ca...Global CCS Institute
The third webinar in the public engagement, education and outreach for CCS Series digged deeper, perhaps multiple kilometres deeper, to explore successful methods for engaging the public on the often misunderstood topic of carbon (CO2) storage.
Forget bad experiences of high school geology, we kick-started our 2017 webinar program with three ‘rock stars’ of CO2 storage communication – Dr Linda Stalker, Science Director of Australia’s National Geosequestration Laboratory, Lori Gauvreau, Communication and Engagement Specialist for Schlumberger Carbon Services, and Norm Sacuta, Communication Manager at the Petroleum Technology Research Centre who all joined Kirsty Anderson, the Institute’s Senior Advisor on Public Engagement, to discuss the challenges of communicating about CO2 storage. They shared tips, tools and some creative solutions for getting people engaged with this topic.
This entire Webinar Series has been designed to hear directly from the experts and project practitioners researching and delivering public engagement, education and outreach best practice for carbon capture and storage. This third webinar was less focused on research and more on the real project problems and best practice solutions. It is a must for anyone interested in science communication/education and keen to access resources and ideas to make their own communications more engaging.
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Global Status of CCS: 2016. Saline Aquifer Storage Performance at the Quest CCS Project
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8. Quest Project at a Glance
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• World First – the first full-scale CCS
project for oil sands
• Who – joint venture between Shell,
Chevron and Marathon
• Where – capture at Scotford Upgrader;
storage in saline aquifer: the Basal
Cambrian Sands (at a depth of 2000m)
• Impact – 25 million tonnes of CO2
captured over a 25 year period (1/3 of
CO2 from the Upgrader) – equivalent to
the emissions of 250,000 cars
• Technology – syngas capture using
amines
9. CO2 Capture
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• The Hydrogen Unit combines
steam and natural gas to
produce high pressure steam
and H2 for use in the upgrader
• The Amine Unit uses Shell
technology to capture the CO2
directly from the process
• The process produces a 99%
pure CO2 output
• Award winning integrated,
modular construction (Fluor)
10. Transport
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• CO2 dehydrated and compressed to >10 MPa to keep
the CO2 in dense phase through entire pipeline
• 65 km pipeline with 6 block valves (every 4-15 km)
• Pipeline construction Oct 2013 – Aug 2014, with
considerable stakeholder interaction
• Cleaning and preserved with nitrogen by
October 2014
• First CO2 into pipeline August 2015
12. Storage Complex
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Upper Cambrian Shale – Primary Seal
Basal Cambrian Sand – Storage Reservoir
PreCambrian Shield
Prairie Evaporite – Additional Seal
Upper Lotsberg Salt – Ultimate Seal
Lower Lotsberg Salt – Secondary Seal
40m
70m
85m
85m
10m
BCS
Storage
Complex
The BCS Storage Complex
• Deep (~2km) saline aquifer
• Below potable water zones, zones with
hydrocarbon potential
• Multiple thick, continuous seals (>150m within
the complex)
• High quality (~17% porosity) sandstone
reservoir
• Excellent permeability (~1000mD)
13. Measurement , Monitoring and
Verification Plan
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Atmosphere LightSource Laser CO2 Monitoring
Biosphere CO2 Natural Tracer Monitoring
Hydrosphere
Private Landowner Groundwater Wells (discrete chemistry and Isotopes on water and gas)
Deep
Monitoring
Wells
Downhole Pressure & Temperature (DHPT) above Storage Complex (CKLK Fm)
Downhole Microseismic Monitoring
Injection
Wells
Injection Rate Metering, RST Logging, Temperature logging
Geosphere
InSAR
Time-Lapse Walkaway VSP Surveys?
Time-Lapse 3D Surface Seismic
DHPT, Well Head PT, Distributed Temperature and Acoustic Sensing,
Annulus Pressure Monitoring, Wellhead CO2 Sensor, Mechanical Well Integrity Testing,
Operational Integrity Assurance
Time (years)
Baseline Injection Closure
CBL, USIT
Shell Groundwater Wells: Continuous EC, pH
Discrete Chemical and Isotopic Analysis on water and gas
2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050
CO2 Flux and Soil Gas
Remote Sensing (Brine & NDVI)
Eddy Covariance Flux Monitoring ?
• First of a kind – conservative
approach
• Comprehensive: from
atmosphere to geosphere
• Risk-based
• Site-specific
• Independently reviewed
• Combination of new and
traditional technologies
• Baseline data collected
before start-up
14. Atmospheric Monitoring
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from Hirst et al. 2015
• LightSource system installed and functional at
all injection sites prior to CO2 injection
• Release testing very successful – all releases
detected, quantified and located
• Confirmed as the technology
for atmospheric monitoring at
Quest
15. Groundwater Monitoring
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Ground water wells within Quest SLA
(Brydie et al.,2015)
• Continuous monitoring of Shell project wells (on
well pads) – recently changed sensors to improve
reliability
• Extensive field sampling campaign of landowner
wells, many measurements taken
• Comprehensive baseline data
20. Quest Learnings
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MMV:
• MMV systems working well – no triggers
• Microseismic array has been very quiet
• VSPs can image CO2 in the BCS, DAS
working very well
Wells:
• Only 2 wells active – contributing to
significant wells and MMV savings
• Pulse neutron logging confirmed that CO2 is where it is supposed to be
• Important to keep water out of the wells, even the small amounts routinely used
during logging
Reservoir:
• Excellent injectivity – comparable to high case scenarios
• After 25 years, we expect to use 5-7% of the available pore space
• Current estimate is that the ∆P at the end of the project may only be 2 MPa.
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