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SPE Applied Technology Workshop: Roadmap to Successful Storage of CO2
19-22 May 2008
Dubrovnik, Croatia
It is now widely accepted that antropogenic CO2 emissions are contributing to undesired climate change effects.
CCS involves capturing CO2 from large single point sources such as power plants, chemical plants, steel mills and other energy intensive industries and storing it in deep geological formations such as depleted oil & gas fields and deep saline formations. CCS is already acknowledged by the scientific community and the world political leaders as one of the solutions that needs to be implemented as a mitigation option in the fight against global warming. CCS has the potential to solve a quarter of the global Green House Gas problem and a number of initiatives are underway to encourage widespread deployment. Pilot sites are being conducted around the world and several states and federations are already putting in place directives and regulations that will guide the development of this emerging technology.
One of the main challenges facing the subsurface community to efficiently manage the underground storage of CO2 is to tackle spatial and time scales that are much broader and longer than those considered in "traditional" reservoir management. To address the critical issues of capacity, safety and integrity of a site, one has to consider the following elements:
- Space wise: the well, the reservoir, the overburden up to the surface, the side-burden and also the basin scale
- Time wise: the initial state of the site, the injection phase and finally the post injection phase, which can last up to a 1000 years.
There is no point in capturing CO2 unless it can be securely stored in the long term. The oil and gas industry has the knowledge and skills required to select, develop and operate industrial-scale CO2 storage projects. At some point we expect to be called upon to use those skills because, if CCS is to contribute its share of the solution to the global GHG problem, that would mean a CCS industry around the same scale as today’s oil and gas industry.
The workshop was dedicated to sharing the views of the many disciplines involved in these issues to try to establish a roadmap to an efficient and cost effective storage.
Steering Committee
Hervé Quinquis (Chairperson) - IFP
Nicolas Aimard - Total E&P
Torsten Clemens - OMV Exploration & Production
Arthur Lee - Chevron
Henk Pagnier - TNO
Hanspeter Rohner - Schlumberger
Bruno Saftic - University of Zagreb
Iain Wright -
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