Dedicated Sessions Carbon
5 Nov – 11:50 – 13:10
CCS value chain and hub development: perspective and challenge
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) value chains are long, complex, and involve investments and operations by multiple business entities: emitters capturing CO2, entities transporting and processing CO2, and CO2 storage operators.
For a commercial CCS chain to be successful, it must satisfy a whole range of requirements: technical, economic, environmental, safety, and societal. A comprehensive, understandable, and reproducible assessment of CCS projects is a complex task due to several reasons: wide range of actors and factors involved, substantial differences in the type and nature of both actors and factors, and numerous associated uncertainties.
Today, CCS hubs are an option to CCS development projects, due to bring to several different CO2 emitters and/or different storage sites in an interlinked network, can offers several advantages. These benefits include reduced costs, reduced risk, enabling more cost-effective capture from small volume sources, and maintaining investment and jobs in high-emitting industrial regions. CCS business models need to consider a wide range of factors that do not make it simple and unique. CCS can be considering a full chain model, or partial chain model. Most CCS projects currently in operation adopt the full chain model, but now different models are now appearing offer a strategic advantage by enabling emitters to delegate the expertise in capture, transport, and storage to specialized companies.
This section highlights main factors and challenges in the CCS value chain and the advantages of the benefits of the CCS hubs can provide, when tackling the challenge of reducing CO2 emissions from industrial processes.
Moderators
Sonia ISABELLA
LOPEZ KOVACS
Reserves Control Leader
Repsol
Carolina
Coll
Chair, Communications Working Group
The UNECE Expert Group on Resource Management
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Doe
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SPEAKERS
Kleinpenning
Shell
Plug
EBN
Garrard
Arch Insurance International
Brouwer
Shell
McPherson
University of Utah
van Geuns
Vopak New Energies
5 Nov – 16:40 – 18:00
Reservoir Modeling in a CCS hub Context
Reservoir modeling is key in a CCS project, to understanding CO2 plume’s behavior,
and its propagation dynamics during injection and subsequent storage phases,
providing valuable insights into key aspects of reservoir response and the efficacy of
CO2 containment strategies, as well for a effective management in the CCS value
chain, and ensuring the viability of long-term storage. However, CO2 reservoir
modeling have several challenges that will cover in this session:
- Storage efficiency and trapping mechanisms (structural trapping under the
caprock, dissolution in gas and brine, and residual trapping). - Multizone evaluation is necessary, this includes not just the saline aquifers, but
also the overlying seal and potentially a back-up sealing layer and formations
below the storage zones. - Rock/brine/CO2 interactions and system properties, mutual solubility between the
CO2 and brine, the mineralization of CO2 (as a carbonate), the acidification of the
brine that can react with the rock, and the precipitation of salts from the brine.
These processes influence each other and all of them can affect porosity and
permeability in complex and offsetting ways. - CO2 phase behavior and thermal processes
- Pressure modeling within the same hydraulic unit and increasing pressure over
time - Injectivity over time: permeability, and thickness, play a crucial role in influencing
the quality of the injection process. However, while high permeability can
accelerate CO2 migration, it may simultaneously reduce the effective storage
capacity of the medium. Proper management of injectivity is essential to prevent
the initiation of fractures in the storage medium.
Moderators
Sonia ISABELLA
LOPEZ KOVACS
Reserves Control Leader
Repsol
Carolina
Coll
Chair, Communications Working Group
The UNECE Expert Group on Resource Management
Jane
Doe
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Jane
Doe
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Jane
Doe
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SPEAKERS
HILD
EBN
Branston
SLB
Alex
Novlesky
Resevoir Engineer
CMG
Blanco
Repsol
Walter
CMG's Core Subsurface Solutions
Fulco
van Geuns
Project Director CO2next
Vopak New Energies
6 Nov – 08:45 – 10:05
The future of monitoring and the current challenges
The session will discuss the objectives of monitoring CCS field, the current available monitoring solutions (both onshore and offshore) with their advantages and challenges and the need to get low cost innovative technologies in order to satisfy regulations and financial/technical requirements.
Monitoring, measurement and verification (MMV) plan developed by operator is key to ensure that the CO2 sequestration risks are managed and understood. MMV strategy is project specific and site specific and a fit-for-purpose monitoring solution is needed.
Integrated monitoring solutions will be reviewed, low-cost and deployable monitoring technology will be assessed in order to move towards efficient and realistic monitoring solutions for CCS field. Repurposing and transfer of seismic acquisition and imaging technologies and knowledge from the Oil&Gas world to CCS will be key to reach this objective.
Moderators
SANDRINE
David
Geophysical project manager
TGS
Nicole
Grobys
Senior Geophysicist and AI specialist
Wintershall Dea
Jane
Doe
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Jane
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Jane
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SPEAKERS
Thompson
Equinor
Holm-Trudeng
TGS
Knutsen
Norwegian Offshore Directorate
Morgan
Spotlight Earth
Thurschmid
EBN
Jane
Doe
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6 Nov – 13:50 – 15:30
Opportunities and Challenges of CO2 storage in Depleted Fields
Capturing and storing carbon dioxide in underground geological formations presents a promising strategy for reducing human-caused CO2 emissions and addressing climate challenges. Depleted hydrocarbon fields provide significant storage capacity for CO2 and have a big advantage of known properties and structures, seal integrity, and potential re-use of existing facilities. However, injecting CO2 into these reservoirs raises concerns regarding injectivity, containment, completion and the integrity of wells and facilities, primarily due to the cooling resulting from the isenthalpic expansion of CO2. A significant risk to injection efficiency is the potential formation of hydrates combined with salt precipitation and risk of mechanical failure due to the cooling. Our dedicated session will address these issues and suggest potential solutions.
Moderators
Filip
Neele
CCS Scientist
TNO
Denis
Voskov
Associate professor
TU Delft
Jane
Doe
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Jane
Doe
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Jane
Doe
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Jane
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SPEAKERS
Hindriks
Shell
Cerasi
Sintef
Mohd Amro
TU Freiberg
Morosov
Equinor
Haddad
ENI
Doe
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6 Nov – 16:10 – 17:30
Opportunities and Risks of Wells in CCS Operations
This dedicated session is designed to cover several aspects of the importance of wells during various phases of the CO2 storage operations, such as during the pre-injection feasibility assessment, injection and monitoring phases. This includes the repurposing of legacy wells in depleted fields and well interventions before injection or after detecting an actual problem. The session can also encompass the drilling of new wells, their recompletion and the deployment of downhole monitoring equipment as well as legacy abandoned fields. The quality and lifetime of wells should also be considered since some abandoned wells may date back as much as 60 years. How can we predict the impact of the CO2 stream injection pressure, temperature and composition on well integrity and the technology available for integrity monitoring?
Moderators
Neville
Brookes
Business Developer Manager – Carbon Storage
Viridien
Denis
Voskov
Associate professor
TU Delft
Jane
Doe
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Jane
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Jane
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Jane
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SPEAKERS
Costeno
SLB
Emmel
SINTEF
Smits
EBN/ Porthos CCS Project
Doe
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7 Nov – 13:50 – 15:30
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Onshore vs offshore storage - a tell tale of cost vs social acceptance
The storage of liquids underground is not a new concept, either for nature or humans. Nature has quietly stored hydrocarbons and various natural gases in the subsurface for millenium, both onshore and offshore. Humans have extracted the liquids for profit both onshore and offshore, and are now exploiting the underground for a variety of energy related processes and waste disposal. However, it is carbon capture and storage in underground geological formations, which is currently creating headlines in the global press. This is where the polarization occurs. On the business side, costs vary substantially between onshore and offshore sites. Local tax regimes, political persuasion and social objectives play a substantial role in the storage location. Public opinion is complicated by prior experience – seismic activity associated with onshore hydrocarbon activity produces negative reactions, whereas communities used to their livelihood being dependent on the subsurface, are more inclined to accept onshore storage. This dedicated session will explore these issues and others, and perhaps raise more questions than answers.
Moderators
Susan
Fellows
Regional Director – Europe and Scandinavia
Computer Modelling Group Ltd.
Carrie
Holloway
Senior CCS Geologist
SLB
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Macdonald
OGCI
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