DETECT – Determining the risk of CO2 leakage along fractures of the primary caprock using an integrated monitoring and hydro-mechanical-chemical approach

Investigators

Shell Global Solutions International B.V.: Marcella Dean (coordinator), Jeroen Snippe, Niko Kampman, Kevin Bistom

Heriot-Watt University: Andreas Busch, Nathaniel Forbes Inskip, Roberto Rizzo, Hossein Fazeli, Tom Phillips, Florian Doster, Sebastian Geiger, Rafael March

RWTH Aachen University: Reinhard Fink, Helge Stanjek, Hannes Claes, Bernhard Krooss

Risktec Solutions B.V.: Sheryl Hurst, Andy Lidstone, Paul van Rossum

 

Sponsors

ERANET Cofund ACT (Project no. 271497), European Commission, Research Council of Norway, the Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland, the Federal German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWI); and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, UK (BEIS)

Research

An overview of the project, presented at the ACT Knowledge Sharing Workshop in Bucharest, Romania in 2017, can be found here.

This project aims at generating guidelines for determining the risk of CO2 leakage along fractures across the primary caprock using an integrated monitoring and hydro-mechanical-chemical modelling approach. For this purpose, we will perform laboratory studies to provide relevant parameters for CO2 leakage modelling at small, meso, and large scales for several case studies, incorporating analogue data where possible. The intention is to improve our understanding of realistic leakage geometries and rates for several representative scenarios and to identify containment monitoring technologies that are capable of detecting such caprock integrity issues. This, will be integrated within a risk assessment framework using the bowtie method which will allow both a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the risk of CO2 leakage along fractures in the caprock. The resulting bowties will serve CO2 storage operators as guidelines for site-specific risk assessments. Further, the integrated results of this work can be used for communication regarding leakage from CO2 storage in a clear, logical, and substantiated manner.

Final Dissemination Event

On December 1st we presented the results of DETECT as a global Webinar. Below are the presentation slides:

WP1 (Project Overview) and WP4 DETECT Webinar December 1 2020 (Marcella Dean – Shell)

WP2 DETECT Webinar December 1 2020 (Andreas Busch – Heriot Watt)

WP3 (Single fracture) DETECT Webinar December 1 2020 (Niko Kampman – Shell)

WP3 (Meso-scale Modelling) DETECT Webinar December 1 2020( Florian Doster – Heriot-Watt)

WP3 (Large-scale Modelling) DETECT Webinar December 1 2020 (Jeroen Snippe – Shell)

WP5 DETECT Webinar December 1 2020 (Sheryl Hurst – Risktec)

Final Report

The final report can be found here. Please note that this is a summary report only. We are currently working on publications that address the major findings from DETECT. Some of them are already on our ResearchGate website. Stay tuned, more to come soon!