Workshop
Enabling Gigatonne Disposal of Carbondioxide in the Subsurface
2 September 2024 | 08:45 – 17:45 CEST
Convenors:
Stephan Matthai (Peter Cook Centre for CCS R&D, The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Arne Skorstad (Halliburton, Norway)
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Introduction | Stephan Matthai and Arne Skorstad |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Philip Ringrose (NTNU) | How CO2 storage works - Experience from projects |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Sarah Gasda (NORCE) | Understanding regional multi-site storage systems |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Stephan Matthai (UoM) | Improving the physical realism of storage simulations |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Lunch break | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | David Ponting (OpenGoSim) | Using HPC simulation for CO2 storage design, performance assessment, and forecasting |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Odd Andersen (SINTEF) | Simplified / surrogate modelling and storage optimisation |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee break | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Jan Nordbotten (University of Bergen) | Digital twins and benchmarking simulation technology versus lab-scale CO2 storage |
| 16:15 - 17:15 | Philip Ringrose (NTNU) | Using smart monitoring methods to ensure safestorage |
| 17:15 - 17:45 | Q&A and wrap-up | How to deliver Gigatonne CO2 storage? |
The workshop is provided to all registered participants at no extra cost and is included in the conference registration.
Overview
Carbon geo-sequestration is essential for global decarbonisation, and field-demonstration pilots like Sleipner, now operating for >20 years, demonstrate the potential of this technology, but also that there are still many unknowns. New projects are now emerging every month. The challenge facing humanity now is to upscale these efforts from a few millions to gigatonnes sequestered per year. Only then, can CCS markedly impact atmospheric CO2 concentration.
This one-day workshop moves from CO2 geo-sequestration fundamentals to the state of the art, unpacking emerging knowledge, practices, geomodelling and simulation needs, and highlighting open research and engineering questions. It is tailor-made for a multi-disciplinary audience ranging from scientists to engineers with different levels of experience with carbon geo-sequestration, and it aims to engage those unfamiliar with, but interested in this subject, whether they have a background in mathematics, computer science, AI, geosciences or reservoir engineering.
The workshop is presented as a series of lectures interleaved with discussion sections and it will conclude with a panel discussion revisiting leading questions inviting contributions from the audience.
The workshop materials, including references to online resources will be made available to the participants prior to the workshop.