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...

Assessment of CO2 storage potential in Europe.

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...

Assessment of CO2 storage potential in Europe

Assessing European capacity for geological storage of carbon dioxide-the EU GeoCapacity project

The focus of the GeoCapacity project is GIS mapping of CO2 point sources, infrastructure and geological storage in Europe. The main objective is to assess the European capacity for geological storage of CO2 in deep saline aquifers, oil and gas structures and coal beds. Other priorities are further development of methods for capacity assessment,...

Assessing European Capacity for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide. Storage capacity

This document is deliverable D16 WP2 Report Storage Capacity and provides a description of the work carried out in WP2. It also provides a summary of capacity estimates for deep saline aquifers, hydrocarbon field and coal beds for each country and brief descriptions of the methodology used and assumptions made. Geological descriptions and...

CO2 storage in saline aquifers: In the Southern North Sea and Northern Germany

CO2 storage in depleted gas fields is attractive but gas fields are unequally distributed geographically and can be utilized only within a restricted window of opportunity. Therefore, CO2 storage in saline aquifers can be expected to become an important element of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) systems. CO2 storage in saline aquifers is studied...

Assessing European Capacity for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide. GeoCapacity Final Report

This document is the public GeoCapacity Final Report and is deliverable D42 of WP7 Project Management and Reporting. A description of the project, summary of the work carried out and results of the individual work packages WP1 - WP7 are given in the report

Assessing European Capacity for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide. Capacity standards and site selection criteria

This document is deliverable D26 the work package of WP4 Capacity standards and site selection criteria in the EU GeoCapacity project and provide a summary of the work carried out in WP4.1 Site selection criteria and WP4.2 Storage Capacity Standards. The objective of WP4.1 is to produce a set of site selection criteria required when considering...

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...