Workshop 16
CCS Monitoring Strategies: Technologies, Challenges, and Field Insights Friday, June 12h |
Convenors
- Elodie Morgan (Spotlight)
- Didier Rappin (TotalEnergies)
- Anne-Kari Furre (Equinor)
- Sara Minisini (Shell Global Solutions International B.V.)
- Bruce Webb (ENI)
- Gianluca dell’Elce (ENI)
- Bastien Dupuy (SINTEF)
- Antony Price (TotalEnergies)
Description
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is expanding globally, and effective monitoring is key to its success. This workshop will address challenges in tracking CO₂ plume migration, pressure fronts, and operability, while exploring strategies for conformance and containment monitoring. Real-world injection cases (pilots, CCUS-EOR, operational sites) will be featured alongside research studies to share global best practices. Sessions will cover detectability in depleted gas fields, saline aquifers, and carbonate reservoirs, and assess the complexity, benefits, limitations, and costs of geophysical monitoring in crowded environments. Core question: how can we design monitoring plans that demonstrate safe, efficient CO₂ storage using geophysical technologies to their full potential?
Sub-Topics that will be covered in the workshop:
- Pressure front monitoring,
- Depleted reservoir,
- Saline aquifer,
- Carbonate reservoir,
- Onshore and offshore challenges,
- Detectability,
- Key learnings
- Promising research to develop CCS
Workshop Programme
Participant Profile
This workshop is designed for geoscientists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, CCS project developers, monitoring specialists, and researchers involved in carbon storage. It will also benefit regulators, policymakers, and stakeholders seeking to understand the technical and operational aspects of CO₂ monitoring and storage assurance.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Intro from co-organizer |
| 09:10 | To be confirmed |
| 09:30 | Geophysical Monitoring Foundations of EL001 CO2 First Injection - Mathieu Vinchon (Northernlights J.V.) |
| 09:50 | Onshore CO₂ Storage monitoring technologies: Example from Kalundborg, Denmark. Sondre Torset (Equinor ASA) |
| 10:10 | Title to be confirmed. Antony Price (TotalEnergies) |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:50 | Monitoring the Porthos Depleted Reservoir. - Daphne Wiggers de Vries (Porthos CO2 Transport and Storage C.V.) |
| 11:10 | Risk based monitoring of carbon storage in Depleted Fields, what monitoring strategies are required? Gwilym Lynn (Shell) |
| 11:30 | Panel |
| 12:10 | Lunch Break |
| 13:10 | Data-driven assessment of 4D seismic pressure detection for CCS applications - Colin McBeth (Heriot Watt University) |
| 13:30 | Calibrating forward modelling using frequent focused seismic, the UK Poseidon injection test - Nour Mikhael (SpotLight) |
| 13:50 | Making FWI-based CO2 Plume Monitoring Techniques Sparse - Kris Innanen (University of Calgary) |
| 14:10 | THMCl coupling and CCS. Why it matters? When it matters? V. De Gennaro (SLB) |
| 14:30 | Break |
| 14:50 | Ensuring sufficient 4D repeatability for CO2 storage monitoring through a value-of-information perspective - Tilman Kluever (TGS) |
| 15:10 | Long-term low-cost CO2 monitoring using sparse multi physics nodes - Michael Jordan (SINTEF) |
| 15:30 | Tracking Reservoir Temperature and Pressure Changes During CO2 Injection Using Distributed Fibre-Optic Sensing: Otway Stage 4 Learnings - Olivia Collet (Curtin University) |
| 15:50 | Panel |
| 16:30 | Conclusion |