About the project
The research collaboration project CO2SafeQuest aims at providing the workflows and the characterization and simulation tools needed to enhance fault behavior and risk assessment in CO2 storage evaluation, allowing to target more complex reservoir and so, accelerate and secure CCS projects scale-up. These workflows and tools will help industry to enhance the CO2 storage evaluation and operation design.
To reach the overall objectives of the project, it is needed to set a bridge between the gap between different scales of fault study by providing suitable data and statistical correlations, and identify suitable hydromechanical models for faults at industrial CCS scale. This, to assess impact of uncertainties and quantify phenomenological impacts and leakage risk at reservoir scale, provide guidelines on fault modeling in an industrial CCS context and on how to calibrate model parameters based on geophysical measurements, laboratory data and analogue outcrop data.
Objectives
This project targets the CO2 storage part of the Call Module CM2023-04 on Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). Unravelling faults properties and behavior in CO2 geological storage is mandatory to “faster scale up of CCS technologies and at lower risk” and “minimizing or avoiding adverse impact on human health and the environment of CO2 storage”, this will be done in this project through the development of innovative integrated workflows addressing the long term confinement of CO2 in faulted sandstone porous media.
This project, through enhancing the CO2 storage derisking and opening new potential storage prospects, will participate to pave the way for the development of megaton scale CO2 storage by mid 2030.
Background
University of Oslo (UiO), Prof. Anita Torabi will lead the work package 2: WP2: Fault GEO-characterization and contributes with previous data and knowledge from fault geometry and properties at different scales. Specifically, in WP2, the UiO team will obtain target-oriented data from selected outcrops and partly contribute to the experiments at NGI as well as analysis of data from specific storage sites in the North Sea. The WP2 project will follow up on work performed in previous fault risk research work (IMPACT, FRISK, SENSE, NCCS task 9 and the ongoing SHARP project).
The UiO: GEO as partner will also participate in the WP4: Fault analyzing workflow and risk assessment where UiO contributes to a planned workshop and workflows that integrate fault studies at different scales.
