Business context
Governments, regulators, and commercial parties are pursuing CO2 storage opportunities as it becomes increasingly clear that CCS is an important contribution to meet the Paris Agreement targets on Climate Change. For a successful CCS project, various technical, operational, economical and environmental risks and associated stakeholders need to be managed.
In this course methods for managing risk in CCS projects are addressed with the focus on the injection and storage part, but also how to assess the storage capacity of a potential CO2 storage reservoir, model framing techniques, well injectivity issues related to CO2 injection. The potential leak paths will be discussed, such as reservoir seals, leakage along faults and aspects of well integrity. Finally the design of a monitoring programme will be discussed.
The course will be supported by various case studies.
Who should attend
All surface and subsurface engineers, such as facility engineers, geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, petro-physicists, production technologists/engineers, well engineers and geomechanical specialists. Also, (sub)surface team leads, project managers, business opportunity managers, decision executives, and technical risk assessment & assurance specialists will benefit from this training as it provides a common framework and workflow to develop a CCS project.
Note: for each class it is highly recommended that a mix of disciplines mentioned above are represented to facilitate discussions from different perspectives.
Course content
On completion of this VILT course, participants will be able to:
Learning, methods and tools
This VILT course is built around cases in which teams work to identify and assess CO2 storage site issues using a systematic approach learned in this course. In addition, exercises are used to practise the aspects of the CCS risk assessment process. The course provides a venue for discussion and sharing of good practices as well as opportunities to practise multi-discipline co-operation and facilitation.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own work issues and challenges and seek advice from the expert course leaders and other participants about all aspects of CCS.
Day by day programme
Day 1 : CCS system & project maturation
Day 2: Site selection & characterisation
Day 3: Injectivity assessment
Day 4: Containment Assessment
Day 5: MMV & Integration