Containment Risk Assessment (CRA)

On the 24th February 2022, at a SPE-PESGB webinar, Richard Metcalfe of Quintessa Ltd. presented a talk on ‘CRA’ and how Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) principles can be applied to carbon storage. Permanent geological CO2 storage is in its infancy yet has a significant role to play in energy transition and beyond. Regulators and stakeholders Read the full article…


CCUS Cluster Sequencing Phase 1, Track 1

BEIS announced the much coveted fast-track slot winners on the 1st November 2021 – Hynet in northwest (NW) England and the East Coast Cluster in the northeast (NE). A simple, but notable differentiation between the two is that the NW project is looking to reuse as much infrastructure as possible (pipelines, depleted gas fields), whereas Read the full article…


Measurement, Monitoring and Verification (MMV)

An ‘MMV’ plan for a carbon storage project must incorporate many different activities, covering both subsurface and environmental considerations. Pre-storage. A baseline must be established. This can rely on/utilise data including 3D seismic and legacy/new wells. During storage operations. Seismic and wellbore observations must be repeatable, for comparison with the baseline. This way, the evolution Read the full article…