CMG Simulation Solution Enables Integrated End-to-End Modelling of CCS Projects

Computer Modelling Group announces that its comprehensive carbon capture and storage (CCS) solution has been selected by Sval Energi AS to support the Trudvang project, located in the Norwegian North Sea.

The Trudvang project involves capturing CO2 from several industrial emission sources in Northern Europe and transporting it, either via ships or pipeline, to the Trudvang store for injection and permanent storage beneath the seabed. The project has the potential to store nine million tons of CO2 annually and is targeting to start storing CO2 in 2029.

Sval Energi AS, as the operator of the Trudvang exploration license, manages and oversees all aspects of CO2 transportation and storage in collaboration with the license partners Vår Energi ASA and Storegga Norge AS. The project’s success hinges on integrating every facet of the CCS value chain, from subsurface to surface, to ensure reliable, risk free, CO2 storage and operational excellence. This necessitates a comprehensive solution capable of addressing both short-term issues, including well start-up, and long-term challenges such as forecasting CO2 injection conditions for permanent storage.

The integrated CCS workflow, powered by CMG’s CoFlowTM, CO2LINK, and GEMTM, and Kongsberg Digital’s LedaFlow®, combines reservoir simulation, geochemistry and geomechanics, steady-state and transient wellbore analysis, and surface pipeline network simulation into one comprehensive, interactive CO2 model. This integrated approach provides a holistic view of the entire CO2 storage process, allowing operators to optimize the design and operation of storage sites, ensuring that CO2 is injected safely and stored permanently. Further, it helps mitigate risks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs by allowing for better planning and decision-making throughout the project’s lifecycle.

“We are pleased to support Sval Energi AS in this significant project,” said Pramod Jain, CEO of CMG. “Having an integrated model during the initial planning stages will set the project up for success. In the long-term, CMG’s CCS workflow solution can continue to support the optimal operation of the project, limiting cost and risk while ensuring it moves forward with its vision of contributing to a more sustainable future.”

The Trudvang project is the first to benefit from the joint industry project spearheaded by CMG and Kongsberg Digital, resulting in the development of CO2LINK. Now a key part of the CMG CCS workflow, CO2LINK integrates Kongsberg’s advanced transient multiphase flow simulation with CMG’s industry-leading software for complex subsurface carbon storage.

Trudvang project

The Trudvang project involves capturing CO₂ from several industrial emission sources in Europe and transporting it, either via ships or pipeline, to the Trudvang store for injection and permanent storage under the seabed. The plan is to be in position to start storing CO₂ in 2029.

Trudvang’s core business is to offer CO₂ storage services, but through strategic collaboration we will explore to enable transport and storage as a service.

Illustration of potential transport routes from European CO₂ export terminals to Trudvang store

The Trudvang store is a large complex with CO₂ injection history and good data coverage from the Sleipner field. It is located in the Norwegian North Sea, east of Sleipner and approximately 165 kilometres from the Norwegian coast. The wells will inject CO₂ into a large saline aquifer in the Utsira formation, a geological formation that has successfully demonstrated safe storage of CO₂ for almost 30 years.

Key focus for the Trudvang partners is to select a value chain that meet our customers’ needs, that is safe, has a low carbon footprint and is cost-competitive while meeting our decision schedule ambitions.

The project is now in the process of performing pre-FEED studies to identify the reference case for further work.

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