DAY 1: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
10:15 Storage
Session chairs and discussion moderators: Darin Damiani, U.S. Department of Energy, and Kari-Lise Rørvik, Gassnova
Agenda:
10:15 Overview of activities (10 minutes each) Kari-Lise Rørvik moderator
Report from the 6th International Conference on Offshore Geologic Storage
o Katherine Romanak, University of Texas - Bureau of Economic Geology (UT-BEG)
ACT Projects with U.S. and Norway participation
o Ensure (ACT3): Volker Oye, Norsar (online)
o SPARSE (ACT4): panelist, David Alumbaugh, LBNL
o PERBAS (ACT4): Stanislav Glubokovskikh, LBNL
· CO2 DataShare: Darin Damiani, DOE-FECM; Grethe Tangen, SINTEF (online)
Clarification Q&A
11:15 Discussion – industry needs – What can we learn from offshore experience? Darin Damiani moderator
U.S. Panelists
o Alex Bump, UT-BEG, GoMCarb
o George Koperna, ARI, SECARB-Offshore
o Ross Markwort, ExxonMobil
o Chris Walker (online) and Marcus Koblitz, BP
o Peng Ye and Phil Ringrose (online), Equinor
Online Norwegian participants for contributing to discussion:
o Sarah Gasda, Norce (online)
o Volker Oye, Norsar (online)
o Philip Ringrose, Equinor Research Centre (online)
12:15 Discussion: Areas of cooperation in Storage. Facilitators: Darin Damiani and Kari-Lise Rørvik
Katherine Romanak, University of Texas, gave a summary of the 6th conference in the series The International Conference on Offshore Geologic Storage, held in Aberdeen, Scotland, 13-14 June, 2023. The workshop series has been a great success and brings together scientists from a wide variety of nations, including several that are in the start of CCS.
Following Katherine’s presentation were presentations of three ACT (Accelerating CCVS Technologies) with participation from USA and Norway:
o Volker Oye, Norsar (online): Ensure (ACT3).
o Amir Ghaderi, David Alumbaugh, LBNL S PARSE (ACT4).
o Stanislav Glubokovskikh, LBNL PERBAS (ACT4).
Darin Damiani, DOE, reported on the CO2DataShare, an important pioneering project in sharing data and knowledge. He was supplemented by Grethe Tangen, Sintef (online). They stressed the importance and benefits of data sharing, as well the challenges in forms of operational costs connected to running an open data base. Cooperation with organizations that run data bases as well as charging for access were suggested to overcome the funding problem.
The presentations were followed by a panel discussion, based a few questions that the panelists had seen up front. Some panelists had introductory slides, see above. Some take-aways from the discussion that should inspire collaboration are:
- Whole regions must be considered, not only single sites. This may demand stronger engagement from states in the monitoring.
- Regulatory frameworks and financial support are important to move forward with offshore carbon storage. Brine extraction was mentioned as an issue that should be included in regulatory framework.
- Technical barriers include the challenge around legacy wells and the necessity to identify acreage with previous penetration.
- Monitoring must be cost effective, reliable and trustworthy.
- Benefits of overlap between industrial clusters and storage sites must be leveraged.
- Broader environmental issues and potential conflicts with other users of offshore acreage must be considered.
The collaboration on storage between US and Norwegian organizations has a long tradition. One challenge (for the national area leads) will be to encourage and optimize the continued cooperation.