Storage Readiness Levels: communicating the maturity of site technical understanding, permitting and planning needed for storage operations using CO2

A framework of Storage Readiness Levels (SRLs) is presented to communicate the entirety of technical appraisal, permitting and planning activities achieved at a potential CO2 storage site and what remains to be completed for CO2 storage operations. The schema, based on learning gained from the experience of researchers, regulators and industry...

Managing CO2 storage resources in a mature CCS future

This paper summarises the potential for surface and subsurface interactions which might occur during CO2 storage operations. We discuss possible options for managing these interactions to provide timely storage capacity, illustrated with a regional case study from the Southern North Sea. The case study evaluates storage site options to provide...

Review of monitoring issues and technologies associated with the long-term underground storage of carbon dioxide

Large-scale underground storage of CO2 has the potential to play a key role in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Typical underground storage reservoirs would lie at depths of 1000 mor more and contain tens or even hundreds of millions of tonnes of CO2. A likely regulatory requirement is that storage sites would have to be monitored both...

Large-scale CO2 injection demos for the development of monitoring and verification technology and guidelines (CO2 ReMoVe)

The objectives of the EU project CO2ReMoVe are to undertake the research and development necessary to establish scientifically based standards for monitoring future CCS operations and to develop the performance assessment methodologies necessary to demonstrate the long-term reliability of geological storage of CO2. This could in turn lead to...

Large-scale CO2 injection demos for the development of monitoring and verification technology and guidelines (CO2ReMoVe)

The objectives of the EU project CO2ReMoVe are to undertake the research and development necessary to establish scientifically based standards for monitoring future CCS operations and to develop the performance assessment methodologies necessary to demonstrate the long-term reliability of geological storage of CO2. This could in turn lead to...