Date:  17th - 20th Apr 2023
Start Time: 14:00 BST
Instructor:  Srikanta Mishra

Business Impact: This course will equip petroleum engineers, geoscientists, investors and policy makers with a foundational understanding of CCS, and also help them understand how practices and technologies developed in oil and gas exploration and production and natural gas storage can be adapted for CCS applications.

The course provides a practical introduction to Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), considered to be a potentially effective technology for the reduction of CO2 emissions from large stationary sources such as power generation units or chemical processing plants. The business impact of the course is an understanding of how to evaluate the economics of CCS projects and the future outlook of CCS worldwide. Widespread adoption of carbon capture technology is needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting the rise in the global temperature to well below 2°C.

CCS is the process of: (a) capturing CO2 before it is emitted into the atmosphere, (b) compressing and transporting the CO2 to a geologic storage site, and (c) injecting it into the site for long-term sequestration. The geologic storage site could be a deep saline formation, a depleted oil field, or an active oil field conducting CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The subsurface operations part of CCS also provides a mechanism for CO2 sources to monetize their emissions through tax credits for long-term geologic storage and/or revenue from incremental oil production due to EOR operations.

Participants will learn to:

• Articulate the case for CCS
• Understand basic source-sink matching concepts
• Perform simple capacity and injectivity estimates
• Outline the elements of risk and economic assessment for a CCS project
• Analyze CO2-EOR vis-à-vis saline storage opportunities

Course Content

Topic 1

• Rationale for CCS
• Overview of carbon capture, transport and storage
• Matching stationary sources and geologic sinks

Topic 2

• Estimation of storage capacity
• Modeling of reservoir injectivity
• Monitoring of CO2 plume movement

Topic 3

• Assessment of wellbore integrity and other risks
• Combining saline storage with EOR
• Evaluation of project economics
• Current status and future outlook for CCS worldwide

Topic 4

• Role of hydrogen in Energy Transition
• Hydrogen Production, Transportation, Storage
• Utilization (End Use)
• Current Projects

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