To a cost effective approach for monitoring CO2 storage sites
conference paper
Subsurface storage of CO2 is regarded as one of the options to reduce the impact of human activity on climate change. In order to ensure save, long-term storage of CO2, a storage site has to meet requirements concerning health, safety and environment. Permanently installed monitoring equipment can be an effective tool to observe changes in the subsurface using time-lapse recordings. Time lapse monitoring techniques have been successfully applied to produce hydrocarbon fields more efficiently, and can also be applied for monitoring purposes at CO2 storage sites. Simply implementing monitoring techniques from the oil and gas industry to monitor CO2 storage sites is not very economical. A general re-evaluation of monitoring techniques for cost efficiency is necessary when it comes to storing CO2. The use of permanently installed monitoring system has worked well at the Kaniów test site, where various monitoring techniques were applied, tested and evaluated. Because permanently installed monitoring systems can indeed be made cost effective, especially when becoming autonomous, it is very likely they will find broad use in monitoring activities around CO2 storage sites in the future.
Topics
CO2 storageCost effectiveCost efficiencyCost-effective approachEffective toolHealth , safety and environmentsHuman activitiesHydrocarbon fieldsLong-term storageMonitoring activitiesMonitoring equipmentMonitoring systemMonitoring techniquesOil and Gas IndustryRe-evaluationStorage sitesTest siteTime-lapse recordingClimate changeCost effectivenessEngineering exhibitionsGas industryHydrocarbonsPetroleum depositsMonitoring
TNO Identifier
346452
ISBN
9781615672363
Source title
71st European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2009, 8 June through 11 June 2009, Amsterdam
Pages
381-385
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