Risk Assessment & Verification For Carbon Capture Projects

9:24 Hours

This focused course is designed to address aspects of Monitoring, Measurement and Verification (MMV) plans, particularly those related to operations, surveillance, geomechanics and seismicity. The emphasis is on assessing risk and collecting data to meet MMV requirements and support the success of projects. The course will discuss how to best balance meeting requirements with minimizing both risk and costs. The course is a field case study based and practical. Looking into the future, the world is going to need 50 to 100 times more CCS projects that currently exist, even in the planning stages, and the industry will be tasked with how to decrease costs while becoming better at assessing and minimizing risk.

Chapter 1 – Introduction To CO₂ Capture

01-01 – Introduction (11 min.)
01-02 – General Workflow
01-03 – Review of Trapping Mechanisms
01-04 – Review of Site Selection
01-05 – Fluid Properties/Phase Behavior of CO₂
01-06 – CO₂ Sequestration in Depleted Reservoir
01-07 – Learnings from Field Cases; In Salah, Snovit, Weyburn

Chapter 2 - Evaluating Risk

02-01 – Plume Migration
02-02 – Quest Project Example: Uncertainty in Volumetrics, Faults, Fractures and Wellbore
02-03 – Expected CO₂ Loss Due to Fractures, Faults, Wellbores
02-04 – Risk Assessment: The Difference Between Saline Aquifer and Depleted Reservoirs
02-05 – Class Problem: Assessment of Risk Likelihood
02-06 – Government Regulation of CCS and CCUS

Chapter 3 - Monitoring lnjectivity

03-01 – Learnings From Field Cases; Sleipner, Quest, Aquistore, Snovit
03-02 – Wellbore Design and Construction
03-03 – Measurement, Monitoring and Verification (MMV) +
03-04 – Falloff Tests & Step Rate Tests
03-05 – Analogue Data
03-06 – Conclusions

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