2. Contents ………..
1. UK storage capacity / site characterisation
2. UK CCS projects
3. Storage performance research
• Capacity and characterisation
• Monitoring and verification
• Long-term stability
3. Contents ………..
1. UK storage capacity / site characterisation
2. UK CCS projects
3. Storage performance research
• Capacity and characterisation
• Monitoring and verification
• Long-term stability
4. UK offshore storage potential
Sleipner
~18 years storage
> 15 million tonnes
(1 - 5 powerstation.years)
Potentially giant global storage facility
• Geology
• CO2 sources
5. UK storage capacity
Offshore sedimentary basins to east
and west
• Depleted oilfields (storage)
• Depleted oilfields (EOR)
• Depleted gas fields
• Saline aquifers
6. IEA Working
group on
standard
methods for
estimating
storage capacity
Storage capacity (UK, Europe, elsewhere)
2000 …………………………..…………….. 2015
CO2StoP
DTI capacity
assessments
7. UK capacity methodology
DTI study (2001)
volumetric ‘static’ capacity estimates
(pore space)
UK SAP (2010-11)
Open aquifer
Compartmentalised reservoir
‘dynamic’ capacity estimates
(pore space + pressure)
10. Sample project: CO2MultiStore
• SCCS, Scottish Government, The
Crown Estate; Scottish Enterprise,
Shell.
• To understand, define and mitigate
risk for CO2 storage in a multi-user
storage site
• Multiple users of the pore space
• CO2 storage sites
• Hydrocarbon fields
• Challenges
• Leasing and licensing
• Operation of the sites
• Integrity of the stores
• Case study is offshore Scotland,
central North Sea
11. Contents ………..
1. UK storage capacity / site characterisation
2. UK full-chain CCS projects
3. Storage performance research
• Capacity and characterisation
• Monitoring and verification
• Long-term stability
14. Peterhead - Goldeneye
~1 Mt / year CO2 for 10 – 15 years
CO2 from existing 400 MW gas turbine (retrofitted
capture unit)
Storage in Goldeneye Field
Depleted gas condensate field
Captain Sandstone (+aquifer)
Depth ~ 2600 m
[Images courtesy Shell]
15. White Rose
~ Mt / year CO2 for 10 years
CO2 from new IGCC power-plant adjacent to Drax
Storage in structural closure in the southern North Sea
Bunter Sandstone (saline aquifer)
Depth ~ 1000 m
16. Contents ………..
1. UK storage capacity / site characterisation
2. UK CCS projects
3. Storage performance research
• Capacity and characterisation
• Monitoring and verification
17. Pressure control in the
Bunter Sandstone aquifer
Dynamic capacity estimation
Bunter
Sandstone
24. Contents ………..
1. UK storage capacity / site characterisation
2. UK CCS projects
3. Storage performance research
• Capacity and characterisation
• Monitoring and verification
25. Monitoring for conformance and containment
• Conformance: that the storage site is behaving as predicted and site-
specific processes are sufficiently well-understood to ruled out significant
adverse future outcomes.
• Containment: no evidence that the storage site is leaking in the
subsurface or emitting CO2 to the surface.
surface
container
leakage
emission
top of the Storage Complex
26. The Sleipner CO2 storage analogue
1994 (pre-injection) 2006 (8.4 Mt)
reservoir
CO2 plume
Operated by Statoil and partners
World’s longest running CO2 storage project
Injecting since 1996
15 million tonnes now stored
Reservoir similar to many central and northern North Sea aquifers
27. 1994 2006
Monitoring at Sleipner
3D time-lapse seismic
1994 (baseline)
1999
2001
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
Seabed gravity
2002
2005
20091994 2006
seabed
reservoir CO2 plume
1000 m
3D time-lapse seismic provides spatially continuous and
spatially uniform coverage of the subsurface volume of the
storage footprint
30. Demonstrated realistic representation of CO2 in situ
Quantitatively robust (~95% of known injected free CO2)
Calculated CO2 distribution (3D)Plume image 1999
2004
2008
2006
Mass of CO2 injected (Mt)
Integratedvelocitypushdown(m2s)
2001
1999
Conformance – whole plume
32. observed layer growth
2001 2004 2006 2008
20082001 2004 2006
numerical simulation of layer growth
Topseal topography ?
High reservoir permeability ?
High CO2 mobility ?
Conformance – topmost CO2 layer
top reservoir
injection point
33. 2006
CO2 plume
overburden
seabed
Containment monitoring: in the subsurface
Statistical analysis of
changes in overburden
due to out-of-reservoir CO2
Detectability:
~ 2000 tonnes at top reservoir
~ 300 tonnes in shallow overburden
< 0.01% of 20 Mt storage project
34. Containment monitoring: at and around the seabed
1. Bubbles
2. Chemical changes in the water-column (e.g. pH)
3. Changes of seabed character
(new pockmarks, algal mats etc)
35. Containment monitoring: at and around the seabed
Stationary and mobile monitoring options
Seabed ‘lander’ for in situ gas analysis
Remotely-operated vehicle (ROV)