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CO2 Storage research Snapshots from SINTEF Petroleum Research

RCN Seminar on collaboration with the Illinois Basin – Decatur Project

Oslo, 2015-09-03

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Presentations

• BIGCCS - Norwegian research centre on CCS, Grethe Tangen grethe.tangen@sintef.no

• ECCSEL - CCS research infrastructure, Maria Barrio maria.barrio@sintef.no

• Well integrity, Malin Torsæter malin.torsater@sintef.no

• Geo mechanics and storage integrity, Pierre Cerasi pierre.cerasi@sintef.no

• Geophysics, Michael Jordan michael.jordan@sintef.no

BIGCCS Facts and status

BIGCCS – key information

► Duration: 8 years

► Partners: 18

► Scientific staff: 60

► PhDs: 30

► Budget: 512 MNOK

Achievements

► Laboratory infrastructure established (ECCSEL, CO2 FieldLab,

CO2/Tiller Lab …)

► 31 new R&D projects initiated based on BIGCO2/BIGCCS activity: 9 CLIMIT KPN projects – added to BIGCCS – Premium projects

22 Offspring projects

► Significant scientific achievements

► 363 publications

► Commercial project opportunities identified

BIGCCS Industry partners

BIGCCS Research partners

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http://bigccs.no/

BIGCCS covers the whole value chain

Tool

CO2 storage in BIGCCS Timeline in light of commercial storage projects in Norway

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1991/1992

Norwegian CO2 tax

and Sleipner decision

CO2 injection

at Sleipner

1996

Snøhvit

decision CO2 injection

at Snøhvit

2001 2008 1986

Innovative idea

by Erik Lindeberg

and Torleif Holt

CO2 as injection

gas for Norwegian

oil fields

First EU projects

(Joule,SACS,CO2 Store)

Power generation with CO2

capture and sequestration

- Research and development

needs SINTEF/NTNU/RCN

EOR by CO2 injection and

CO2 deposition in aquifers

Infrastructure for CO2

deposition (EOR&Aquifers)

KMB CO2 (BIGCO2)

BIGCO2

Phase II

More EU projects

(e.g. ECCO, CO2

Remove, SiteChar)

BIGCCS

BIGCCS

1 Add-on project

CO2 Field Lab

NORDICCS

CO2 Sentrallager

BIGCCS

2 Add-on projects

COMPLETE

Joint Drilling

EU-MiReCol

2009 2014

Bondevik

government

resigns

CO2 Storage (SP3)

Enabling large scale

CO2 storage and EOR

CO2 monitoring

technologies Well integrity

CO2 reservoir

containment

Direct and coordinate R&D

towards a common

ambition

Source: CO2CRC Source: CO2CRC Source: CO2CRC

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SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

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ECCSEL vision:

Enabling low to zero CO2 emissions from industry and power generation

Objectives of the ECCSEL initiative

Establish and operate a world class

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

distributed research infrastructure in

Europe

Integrate and upgrade existing

research facilities and supplement

with new ones

Enhance European science,

technology development, innovation

and education in the field of CCS

Enable spin-off activities and

generation of new business

SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

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2008 2020 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Operational/Investment phase

FP7 pre project

granted

Implementation Upgrades and new builds PP1

ECCSEL on

ESFRI roadmap

Infrastructure investments (until 2030)

• 200+ MEUR (Funded by EU, member

states, funds, industry…)

Preparatory phase

PP2

H2020

implementation

granted

www.eccsel.org

Timeline

SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

Lean organization:

4-6 employees

Annual budget ≈ 1 MEUR

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Location: NTNU/SINTEF Campus

Trondheim, Norway

www.eccsel.org

Headquarter

SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

Fact sheets (web)

Organisation name

Installation name

Location (Google map)

Category, Science area

Short description

Pictures

Calendar (availability)

Open access, also for non-Europeans

www.eccsel.org

SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

ECCSEL Membership Development Plan

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Preparatory Phase (2011-2014)

Norway (host)

• NTNU, SINTEF, RCN

France

• IFPEN, BRGM

The Netherlands

• TNO

Germany

• Universität Stuttgart

United Kingdom

• BGS

Switzerland

• ETH Zürich

Spain

• CIUDEN

Italy

• OGS, ENEA

Greece

• CERT, ISFTA

Poland

• PGI-NRI

Implementation (2015-2016)

• Norway

(Operations Centre)

• The Netherlands

• Spain

• United Kingdom

• Poland

• Italy

• Greece

• France

• Switzerland

(Observer)

Expansion

• Germany

• Czech Republic

• Other member states

• Bilateral agreements with

oversea states,

institutions, industry

www.eccsel.org

Expansion

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Ongoing CO2 well integrity work

• BIGCCS Task 3.5 – Well integrity

o International partner: GEUS

o Budget: 600 kNOK/year

• KPN Ensuring Well Integrity in CO2 Injection Wells

o National partner: SINTEF Energy Research

o International partner: Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab.

o Budget: 3 MNOK/year (3 year duration)

• Closing the gaps in CO2 well plugging

o National partner: SINTEF Materials and Chemistry

o International partner: Curistec, Université du Maine

o Budget: 3 MNOK/year (3 year duration)

• SINTEF add-on to COMPLETE: CO2 Post-injection Monitoring and Post-closure phase at the Ketzin pilot site

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Thermal cycling experiments

Testing of plugging materials

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Tailor-built set-ups for mimicking downhole conditions

Rig for studying hole cleaning and cuttings transport

Thermal cycling of downscaled well sections

cement casing

rock

Push-out tester of shear-bond strength between materials

Long-term exposure to various environments

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Combination of experiments, characterization and numerical work

We share microscopy labs with NTNU and have access to a variety of instruments for studying petroleum-related materials. We also have in-house software to ensure state-of-the-art data treatment. • SEM, FIB-SEM, medical CT, micro-CT,

profilometer

High Low

Shale-cement sample

Experimentally verified model for leakage through

microannuli in wells

Downscaled well sample Digitalization of cement defects

Insert into ABAQUS (heat transfer)

Insert into ABAQUS (stresses) CT scanning

Geomechanics activities

• Vital link between reservoir assessment at large scale and monitoring both of near-well area and whole reservoir integrity

• Combining rock mechanics and rock physics experties – Rock mechanics to predict risk of

integrity breach – Rock physics to calibrate necessary

input to 4D monitoring models

Addressing the micro-seismic risk

• Major obstacle in the public acceptance issue

• Combination of active and passive acoustics in triaxial tests – Both reservoir sandstone and

sealing caprock

– Stress paths designed to mimic specific features of investigated field

Targeting injectivity optimisation

• Identified as major gap in Tel-tek analysis for Gassnova

• Have run separate studies on temperature cycling and stress cycling

– Need to combine the two

– Have the equipment to look at formation damage mechanisms

Numerical modelling capacity

• Coupled flow-geomechanical analysis

• No need to predefine fracture path

• Thermal stresses included

• Fracture twisting included

• Multiple fracture generation

• Need more detailed fault structure description

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Geophysics Research Activities

Contact: Peder Eliasson, +47 47369732

Main activities:

Development and application of methods for advanced imaging/monitoring

• Extract more reliable information from geophysical data

Main focus:

High resolution imaging and quantification

• Development of high resolution (3D) imaging methods

• Integration of different geophysical methods (e.g., joint inversion)

• Integration of lab measurements and geophysical imaging

• Quantification of uncertainties

Figure: Joint inversion framework

TIGER

Figure: Ultrasonic core measurements

SINTEF Petroleum Research

Main methods and developments:

• Seismic wave propagation in complex media (TIGER)

• Seismic tomographic inversion methods

• Stereotomography

• FWI

• OptAVO

• Electro-magnetic, and potential field methods

• Joint Inversion

Examples of applications relevant for CO2 monitoring:

• CO2 monitoring (BIGCCS, CO2FieldLab)

• GSCO2 (Decatur): Basic research on pressure and saturation quantification from seismic data

• Analysis of uncertainties (UNICQUE)

• Joint inversion using FWI and ERT for CO2 monitoring at Ketzin (COMPLETE)

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Geophysics Research Activities

Figure: Application of FWI on Sleipner real data

Figure: Seismic modelling (source in well)

Figure: Analysis of spatial uncertainties

Contact: Peder Eliasson, +47 47369732

SINTEF Petroleum Research

Objectives: • Develop method for 4D analysis of

CO2 injection • Integrate FWI with CSEM to resolve

thin layers

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FWI and CSEM for monitoring of CO2 storage sites

Contacts: Anouar Romdhane (FWI), +47 45095746 Peder Eliasson (CSEM), +47 47369732

Figure: 3D view of two seismic sections from the time- migrated volume of 2008 (top). Model derived from FWI using 2008 data at f=39 Hz. (bottom)

SINTEF Petroleum Research

• Mature joint inversion as CO2 monitoring methodology using the unique data and controlled conditions from the Ketzin pilot site

• Develop CO2 monitoring technology that can be transferred to full scale CO2 storage sites

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CO2 monitoring technologies Joint inversion of FWI and ERT at Ketzin (COMPLETE)

SINTEF Petroleum Research

Objective:

• Incorporate uncertainty quantification in CO2 monitoring methods (e.g. FWI, CSEM)

• Uncertainties in velocity/resistivity models subsequently used to quantify and reduce uncertainties in CO2 saturation and spatial extent.

• Improve speed and accuracy of monitoring method

• by utilizing uncertainty information during inversion.

• by tailoring the monitoring method to the specific site,

using uncertainty as a quality measure.

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Uncertainty reduction in monitoring methods for improved accuracy of CO2 Quantity estimates (UNICQUE)

Contact: Peder Eliasson, +47 47369732

Figures: CO2 saturation and volume estimate from heavily constrained CSEM