Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Location: The Geological Society, London

FEATURED SPEAKERS

• Policy manager
• Carbon Capture and Storage Association

• Senior geophysicist
• Silixa
   

• Principal advisor, CCUS
• Inosys

Halliburton is very proud to be a main sponsor and speaker at the first Finding Petroleum IN-PERSON event in the UK since 2019:

CO2 Storage - and Opportunities for Geoscientists

The UK has a number of storage sites already licensed, but modelling by the Carbon Capture and Storage Association shows that the currently licensed sites will be full by around 2030 and also it takes 7 years of geophysical work to get a license for a new one. The UK is not short of space but it takes a long time for the necessary studies. We will review the geophysical workflows involved in appraising new CO2 storage sites.

We will look at the "North Sea Transition Deal" agreed with UK oil and gas operators and the UK government, under Offshore Energies UK (formerly Oil and Gas UK) and what it means for CO2 storage and geoscience.

We will explore how the mindset of the exploration geoscientist is required to generate CO2 storage assessments and plan injection operations - including making a seal assessment, CO2 fluid flow dynamics (which are analogous to hydrocarbon migration), understanding geological heterogeneities (facies and structures). Also creative thinking, management of uncertainty, and working with data scarcity.

Geophysics skills can also be useful in monitoring what is happening with CO2 after being injected in the subsurface. Where is it going and is there any risk of a leak. Fibre optic cables in wells can gather acoustic data which can be analysed, and reveal a great deal. But it also involves geophysical expertise.

If you would like to watch the event live remotely, please contact karl jeffery  to request a zoom link.

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