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Feasibility and design of robust passive seismic monitoring arrays for CO2 geosequestration: project results @ 6 months
Feasibility and design of robust passive seismic monitoring arrays for CO2 geosequestration: project results @ 6 months

1st May 2014

Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 storage

This early progress report explores the opportunity to consider passive seismic monitoring for the South West Hub in the context of location specific variables.

Passive seismic monitoring is the science of recording and analysing natural or induced seismicity with surface or borehole sensor arrays, without the use of costly and disruptive man-made seismic energy sources. Scientists are seeking to use such signals to monitor an injected CO2 plume.

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What happens when CO2 is stored underground? Q&A from the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project
What happens when CO2 is stored underground? Q&A from the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project

16th April 2014

Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 storage, Public engagement

This report presents common questions often raised by the general public about carbon capture and storage (CCS), giving answers based on the extensive data and results from the 12 years of research at the Weyburn-Midale oilfields. The intent is to offer fact-based answers about CO2 carbon storage.

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世界のCCSの動向:2014年2月
世界のCCSの動向:2014年2月

21st March 2014

Topic(s): CO2 capture, CO2 storage, CO2 transport, Public engagement

本報告書『世界のCCSの動向:2014年2月』は、世界の大規模統合CCSプロジェクトの状況をまとめるとともに、重要なプロジェクト、政策、法規制制度の整備などに関する国際動向を紹介するものである。2014年2月現在、世界で12件のプロジェクトが操業中、9件が建設中である。UAEで世界初の製鉄プロセスCCSが着工し、北米の2件の発電プロジェクトが年内に運開の見込みである。その他に29件が開発計画の様々な段階にあり、うち6件で2104年中に最終投資判断がなされる可能性がある。総プロジェクト数は、昨年10月刊行の『世界のCCSの動向:2013』での65件から60件に減少、うち4件が欧州であった。政策・制度面でも米・英などで大きな動きがあった。

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Comparing different approaches to managing CO2 storage resources in mature CCS futures
Comparing different approaches to managing CO2 storage resources in mature CCS futures

1st March 2014

Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 storage

This study has been funded by the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (GCCSI), through the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEAGHG). The report ‘Comparing different approaches to managing storage resources in mature CCS futures’ summarises the potential for surface and subsurface interactions which might occur during CO2 storage operations. It reviews the regulatory approaches in jurisdictions active in carbon capture and storage (CCS) to managing such interactions and the consequent potential adverse impacts. The authors discuss possible options for managing these interactions to provide timely storage capacity, illustrated with a regional case study from the Southern North Sea.

The report has been written by contributors from US, Australia, Netherlands and Canada, under the lead of the British Geological Survey, United Kingdom.

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OXYCFB300 Compostilla Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration Project: knowledge sharing FEED report
OXYCFB300 Compostilla Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration Project: knowledge sharing FEED report

21st February 2014

Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 capture, CO2 storage, CO2 transport, Health safety and environment, Permitting, Policy law and regulation

This report describes the lessons learned and provides detailed knowledge from the expert multidisciplinary teams - including mechanical, electrical and civil engineers, geologists, ecologists, lawyers, accountants – that carried out the extensive Front End, Engineering and Design (FEED) study of the full chain OXYCFB300 Project.

This document summarises all the engineering studies and considerations developed during the FEED. From the original conceptual idea, FEED engineering works have yielded a functional and technically feasible power plant, which successfully integrates oxycombustion technology with a state-of-the-art ultrasupercritical regenerative power cycle and with an innovative CO2 purification and compression process, integrated with a transport line that conducts the CO2 at dense phase to the final CO2 geologic sequestration site, for an operational life of 25 years.

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Final report on prospective sites for the geological storage of CO2 in the southern Baltic Sea
Final report on prospective sites for the geological storage of CO2 in the southern Baltic Sea

1st February 2014

Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 storage

For this study, SLR was commissioned by Elforsk to identify and characterise the potential CO2 storage sites in the southern Baltic Sea, in a project sponsored by the Swedish Energy Agency, the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute and Swedish industrial partners.

The study determined that there is a theoretical regional capacity to store some 16Gt of COin the Middle Cambrian sandstone beneath 900 metres of caprock and 1.9Gt in the Dalders Monocline. There is theoretical storage capacity of some 743Mt COin hydrocarbon and saline structures, which are located mainly offshore of Latvia. On the basis of the data available, there is no effective capacity proven within these totals, although the Dalders Structure, with 128Mt, could be considered better defined, albeit still within the theoretical category range. Thus the study has established a relatively large theoretical storage capacity for captured CO2.

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Zero Emission Porto Tolle: ZEPT Project results
Zero Emission Porto Tolle: ZEPT Project results

1st February 2014

Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 storage, Engineering and project delivery

This report summarises the main lessons learnt and key findings from the Zero Emission Porto Tolle (ZEPT) project. The ZEPT project was funded by the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR) during the period 2009-2013 and covered the design, procurement and construction of a demonstration CCS plant as well as the detailed site characterisation, to verify the feasibility of the injection and storage of CO2 in a safe and verifiable manner.

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Basin resource management and carbon storage
Basin resource management and carbon storage

1st November 2013

Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 storage

The complexity of geological storage includes how carbon dioxide interacts with other resources - this will impact the ‘licence to operate’ a carbon dioxide geological storage site. In addition, the sensitivity to a ‘new player’ in the underground geological space has led to discussions around sub surface access priorities and potential resource conflicts. This two-part CSIRO report seeks to clarify the possible interactions in a range of potential geological settings as well as align ‘best in class’ international work to the Australian context to propose relevant ‘resource interaction’ decision flow charts.

Report Parts

  • Impacts of carbon dioxide storage [Executive Summary]
  • Part I: resource characterisation requirements and evaluation of containment risks at the basin-scale
  • Part II: Towards a workflow for the assessment of potential resource impacts for CO2 geosequestration projects

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A deployment strategy for effective geophysical remote sensing of CO2 sequestration: Final report
A deployment strategy for effective geophysical remote sensing of CO2 sequestration: Final report

23rd October 2013

Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 storage

The report examines alternative geophysical methods to time-lapse seismic that might be deployed to monitor commercial volumes of stored CO2. It uses simple geological models for the South Perth and Gippsland basins to simulate the resolution of various techniques or combinations of techniques. Topics covered include lowering noise levels in data processing workflows, estimate noise in a time-lapse sense for shallow well receivers as well as ambient noise imaging for ocean bottom receivers. Whilst no alternative method or combination of methods appears to have the sensitivity to adequately replace a time-lapse seismic approach, the added information could greatly improve the resolution and sensitivity of time-lapse geophysical methods alone.

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世界のCCSの動向: 2013
世界のCCSの動向: 2013

10th October 2013

Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 capture, CO2 storage, CO2 transport, Public engagement

世界のCCSの動向:2013は、世界のCCSに関する進捗や直面する課題について当インスティテュートが年次で纏めているフラッグシップレポートで、今回が第5版となる。本レポートでは、CCSプロジェクトの開発状況、政策や規制枠組み、CCSを構成する技術、社会的受容などについての概況を報告する。

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Situation report 2012: a public report outlining the progress, lessons learnt and details of the European CCS Demonstration Project Network
Situation report 2012: a public report outlining the progress, lessons learnt and details of the European CCS Demonstration Project Network

1st October 2013

Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 capture, CO2 storage, Engineering and project delivery, Permitting, Policy law and regulation

The European Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration Project Network's Situation Report 2012 is a publication from a community of large scale projects dedicated to knowledge sharing (the Network). This report is intended for those interested in some of the specific technical, regulatory and project management considerations of carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a large-scale, low-carbon technology for the electricity generation and industrial sectors (steel, iron, chemical, methanol, gas process, cement, etc.).

This report provides both a brief outline of the major elements within the development and running of a CCS project, and specific details generated by the Network. While a number of thematically specific reports are regularly made public by the Network, this report attempts to provide an overall outline of the technical details, lessons learnt, challenges and progress facing the carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects within the Network.

The Situation Report 2012 covers developments during 2012. Primarily drawing on the data provided by the projects within a six monthly survey, information is also taken from the eight knowledge sharing workshops held by or with the Network, and specific reports generated by this body of large-scale projects.

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Authigenic carbonates as natural analogues of mineralisation trapping in CO2 sequestration: progress report and preliminary results
Authigenic carbonates as natural analogues of mineralisation trapping in CO2 sequestration: progress report and preliminary results

1st October 2013

Topic(s): Carbon capture use and storage (CCUS), CO2 storage

Mineral trapping is the most secure form of CO2 storage, however, these reactions are likely to be very slow and have pre-requisition on the environment settings. An accurate model, able to predict the conditions required for acceleration of mineralisation trapping (in particular storage reservoirs), is the first step towards engineering to maximise storage security and efficiency. This project is currently working on the determination of groundwater chemistry and reservoir conditions responsible for natural carbonate mineralisation within the Great Artesian Basin. The ultimate goal is an understanding of the likelihood of engineered mineral trapping to maximize storage security and storage efficiency in the Surat and other onshore sedimentary basins. This is an interim report on research progress to date.

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