Last week, the UK’s Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) published the results of its 12-month, £2.5million CO2 Storage Appraisal Project, Progressing development of the UK’s Strategic Carbon Dioxide Storage Resource.
The Project, funded by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and carried out by Pale Blue Dot Energy, Axis Well Technology and Costain, confirmed that there are no technical hurdles to permanently storing large volumes of CO2 in offshore geological storage off the coast of the UK, including sites large enough to comfortably service CO2 supplies from mainland Europe.
Over the course of 12 months this ambitious Project identified 20 specific CO2 storage sites (from a potential 579 sites) which together represent the tip of a very large strategic national CO2 storage resource potential, estimated to be around 78GT (78,000 million tonnes).
Five of these sites were then selected for further detailed analysis given their potential contribution to mobilise commercial-scale CCS projects for power and industrial use in the UK.
This Webinar provided an opportunity to dig deeper into the wealth of comprehensive data and modelling that has been made publically available through the publishing of this report, and to consider its significance for helping to de-risk future CCS investment decisions.
To expertly guide us through this process, the Global CCS Institute was delighted to welcome Andrew Green, Programme Manager - Carbon Capture & Storage at the ETI, and Alan James, Managing Director at Pale Blue Dot Energy (the Consortium Lead for this project) to join us for the webinar.
After an overview of the Project and a more detailed look at the final outcomes, Andrew and Alan were joined by subject matter specialists: Steve Murphy – Pale Blue Dot Energy, Angus Reid – Costain, and Sharon McCollough – Axis Well Technologies, for a live Q&A session for the second half of the webinar.
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12 months, 5 sites, 1 billion tonnes of co2 storage by 2030. the eti introduces the findings of its latest study
1. 12 months, 5 sites, 1 billion tonnes of CO2 storage by
2030. The ETI introduces the findings of its latest study.
Webinar – Thursday 09 June 2016
2. 8 years experience in CCS, commissioning and
delivering ETI projects across the CCS chain
20 years at BHR Group specialising in fluid
engineering, with a particular focus on Process
Intensification.
Physicist with a broad science and engineering
background, gained working with a wide range of
industries in the energy and process sectors.
Programme Manager - Carbon Capture & Storage
Energy Technologies Institute
Andrew Green
3. Chief Technologist on the ETI UK CO2 Storage
Appraisal project
Managing Director at CO2Deepstore Ltd.
35 years in the oil, gas and power sectors, in board,
senior management and consulting positions.
Technical background is as an earth scientist and
reservoir engineer.
Managing Director, Pale Blue Dot
Alan James
4. Steve Murphy – Pale Blue Dot
Sharon McCollough – Axis Well Technology
Angus Reid – Costain
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12. Progressing Development of the
UK’s Strategic Carbon Dioxide
Storage Resource
A High Level Summary of Results from the
Strategic UK CO2 Storage Appraisal Project
For GCCSI
June 2016
9th June 2016
Introduction and guide to downloads http://goo.gl/6NX7Zx
ETI download page http://goo.gl/tdb2ZB
13. Project Overview
Aspirations
To prove that there is secure storage resource beyond UK
FEED projects, to build confidence in follow on plans and
projects
To alleviate most of the storage and schedule “risk” in projects
- to simplify commercial discussions
To provide encouragement that CCS is on a declining cost
curve for CCS – towards £100/MWh
To mature a portfolio of 5 stores with different development
timescales and costs, servicing a broad geography and
balancing risk through its diversity.
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14. Project Overview
Project Flow
Over a 10 month period develop practical cost effective storage options that
contribute to an extendable storage scheme for 1500MT of storage capacity
and 50MT/y of injection capacity by 2030
CO2Stored
Many to
Twenty
Twenty to
Five
Mature Five
Sites
Disseminate
Outputs
Team
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15. Top 20 + FEED Sites
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16. PGS 3D Seismic Overlay
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19. Project Overview
What has been delivered over the past 10 months?
Screening assessment of 579
geological sites
Due Diligence assessment of 20
stores
Development Plans & Budgets
for 5 stores
Illustrative Build-out Scenario
1. Material progress on 900Mt
2. Insight into costs
3. Increased confidence
4. Knowledge Dissemination
5. Risk reduction for developers
IMPACT
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21. Key Findings
Varied Portfolio
The portfolio of 5 sites selected is geographically
and technically diverse, and presents options for
clean energy and industrial development around
the UK.
Only 2 of the 5 sites require any further appraisal
drilling before an investment decision.
Alongside the detailed KT from UK FEED projects
these sites characterise one of the most
comprehensive and mature CO2 storage potential
propositions available within the public domain
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22. Key Findings
Types of Store
Depleted Oil & Gas (12% of
resource potential)
+ Extensively drilled – lots of data
+ Trap proven effective for holding oil
& gas
+ Infrastructure re-use options
Δ Legacy well risk
Δ Competitive use
Aquifers (88% of resource
potential)
+ Sometimes extensively drilled – lots
of data
+ Bigger potential
May have traps
Δ Legacy well risk
Δ Often lack dynamic data
Δ More challenging to permit
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23. Key Findings
The Storage Development Plan & Budget
Characterisation & understanding
Definition of the Storage Complex
Injection performance
Assumed CO2 supply profile
Facility & infrastructure requirements
Development activities
Schedule
Life-cycle costs
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24. Key Findings
A word about capacity
The CO2 storage capacity of a geological storage site is the
total mass of CO2 that can be injected, stored and safely
retained within a specific site. It is routinely measured in
millions of tonnes of CO2 (MT).
It is a complex parameter and depends upon
Underground geological factors
Engineering – development plan factors
Operational factors
Economic factors
Regulatory factors
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25. Key Findings200MT – UK FEED Studies
1645MT – including this study
7.1 GT – Top 20 sites
8.6 GT – All qualified sites
78GT – UKCS potential
The UKCS is endowed with a rich and diverse national
offshore CO2 storage resource, key components of
which can be brought into service readiness without
extensive appraisal programmes thanks to decades of
petroleum exploration and development activity.
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26. Key Findings
The portfolio at the same scale
Forties 5 Site 1
10km
Bunter Closure 36 HamiltonViking A
Captain X
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32. Key Findings
Storage Efficiency
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Storage efficiency – the proportion of pore space in the full reservoir column
within the defined storage complex area that is filled with CO2
Structured
saline aquifers
with large
connected
pore volume
Depleted gas
field with
moderate
aquifer influx
Open
unstructured
aquifer
system with
low Kv/Kh
Highly
depleted gas
field with no
aquifer influx
Open
unstructured
aquifer
system with
high Kv/Kh
Requirement for injection heating
Large areas need several drill centres & higher monitoring costs
33. Portfolio Assessment
Potential Roll Out Scenario
Build-out based upon ETI Scenarios
50MT/yr by 2030 or around 10GW of
power with CCS
Could be delivered with just 8 sites
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34. Portfolio Assessment
Lifecycle costs and Unit costs
£30/T
£20/T
£10/T
£0/T
Levelised Unit Cost
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35. Portfolio Assessment
Storage Site Cost Components
£12.2Bn life-cycle costs for the 8-store portfolio
Platform Opex
Heating (power)
Subsea Opex
Operational MMV
Wells Opex
Financial Securities
Drilling
Completion
Pipelines
Flowlines
Platforms
Subsea
Pre-FID Appraisal
FEED
PostclosureMMV
HandoverPayment
Pipelines
Flowlines
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36. Portfolio Assessment
Storage Site Cost Components
£14.45/T life-cycle costs on a levelised basis for the 8-store portfolio
Drilling
Completion
Pipelines
Flowlines
Platforms
Subsea
Pre-FID Appraisal
FEED
Pre-FIDAppraisal
FEED
PostclosureMMV
HandoverPayment
Pipelines
Flowlines
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37. Portfolio Assessment
Conclusions
Resource Potential
1.6Gt could be stored by 2070 at up to 45MT/yr across 8 sites
O&G legacy is valuable – skills, information and subsurface understanding
Timing
Ability to bring online in early 2020s
Only two of five sites required further pre FID appraisal drilling
Risk
Key remaining risks involve the integrity of abandoned legacy wells
May impact cost and MMV plan in detail
Contribution to Power Generation Cost
£14.4/T levelised cost of transportation and storage
£6.9/MWh to the levelised cost of gas fuelled electricity
Focus of cost reduction efforts
Operating cost of the injection facility and the wells
Storage - accounts for 65 – 85% of the total
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38. Close
Summary
Highlights
The UKCS is endowed with a rich and diverse offshore CO2 storage resource
Key components can be brought into service readiness without extensive
appraisal drilling
Portfolio is geographically and technically diverse
One of the most mature CO2 storage propositions in the public domain
Concerns
Additional costs may be presented by legacy well risk to managing
containment of CO2 in storage sites
In general, most oil and gas infrastructure is likely to be unsuitable for CO2
storage use.
What Next?
Rebuild momentum after CSR and engage with potential developers
More work required around consenting of open aquifer sites
R&D should focus primarily upon Storage Efficiency and Operational Efficiency
Work with OGA:-
National archive is lacking key data important for detailed storage assessment
Consider changes to decommissioning process in CO2 storage areas to prevent them
from being sterilised for subsequent use.
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Hello my name is Kirsty Anderson, I am the Principal Manager of Public Engagement for the Global CCS Institute and I am going to be your host for today’s webinar!
First let me give a warm welcome to everyone tuning in from different time zones around the globe.
It is a relatively early start here in the UK, but that is good because in English we have a well-known encouraging phrase that says ‘the early bird catches the worm…’ and this morning we might not be catching a worm, but I can guarantee that you are going to hear a lot of details about something else that likes to be buried safely underground!
Just a few weeks ago now the UK’s Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) published the results of a 12-month, £2.5million CO2 Storage Appraisal Project called Progressing development of the UK’s Strategic Carbon Dioxide Storage Resource.
This project is not just really important because of the headline result - confirmation that there are no technical hurdles to permanently storing large volumes of CO2 in offshore geological storage off the coast of the UK, including sites large enough to comfortably service CO2 supplies from mainland Europe.
It is also important because it has but an amazingly comprehensive set of data and modelling equipment out into the public domain in order to help de-risk future CCS investment decisions.
Now comprehensive data are words that might normally describe a tonne of information that requires at least three PhDs and a serious lack of social life to qualify you to make sense of it, but in this case, a great deal of effort has been put in to make this information as relevant and accessible as possible and as part of allowing access and raising awareness of this treasure trove of geological information, the Global CCS Institute is delighted to welcome our two expert presenters: Andrew Green and Alan James to guide us through this webinar.
So let me start with an introduction to Andrew.
He is the Programme Manager for CCS at the ETI where he is responsible for commissioning and delivering the ETI’s projects in CCS, and leading the ETI’s exploitation activities in CCS.
Andrew has worked for the ETI since 2008, shortly after it was established.
Before then he worked for over 20 years at a research and technology organisation (BHR Group) specialising in fluid engineering, with a particular focus on the development of advanced process technologies (‘Process Intensification’).
A physicist by original background, Andrew has a broad science and engineering background, gained working with a wide range of industries in the energy and process sectors.
Alan has been with Pale Blue Dot Energy since 2013 and on the ETI UK CO2 Storage Appraisal project he was the Chief Technologist.
In a life before PBD, Alan was Managing Director at CO2Deepstore Ltd for over 7 years where he was involved as a CCS Developer on many of the UK CCS initiatives including - Longannet, Peterhead, Hunterston and Captain Clean Energy projects focussing upon CO2 transport and storage.
Alan has over 35 years of experience in the oil, gas and power sectors, at board, senior management and consulting positions relating to enterprise development, M&A, strategy and business development marketing.
His technical background is as an earth scientist and reservoir engineer.
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Alan has over 35 years of experience in the oil, gas and power sectors, at board, senior management and consulting positions relating to enterprise development, M&A, strategy and business development marketing. His technical background is as an earth scientist and reservoir engineer. Alan has been with Pale Blue Dot Energy since 2013 and prior to that was Managing Director CO2Deepstore Ltd for over 7 years where he worked as a CCS developer on the Longannet, Peterhead, Hunterston and Captain Clean Energy projects focussing upon CO2 transport and storage. Alan served as the Chief Technologist on the ETI UK CO2 Storage Appraisal project.
And this webinar is like a special bumper pack edition! Not only are we delighted to have Andrew and Alan join us to give the main presentation of this important body of work… but for our question time we are going to be joined by three more experts in their fields so that we have access to the best possible experts to answer people’s questions on the key areas of the report.
So last but definitely not least, let me welcome…
Steve Murphy – Pale Blue Dot – who was the Project Manager for this Storage Appraisal project, responsible for the timely delivery of high quality “product” to the ETI.
Steve’s area of technical expertise is in Decision & Risk Analysis and in particular applying that to the development planning and project economics.
Sharon McCollough – Principal Reservoir Engineer at Axis Well Technology
Sharon led the subsurface and well technology teams for this project and has been working in the oil and gas industry for 25 years, specialising in Petroleum Engineering, in particular, reservoir engineering.
Angus Reid – Engineering Manager at Costain Upstream - Angus was the facilities lead for the project and responsible for the infrastructure development plan including the cost and schedule.
His area of expertise is in offshore transportation and facilities.
And that makes up our expert panel! It is going to be a busy webinar so I’m going to move very quickly onto a few items of housekeeping just before we begin, …
This session is being recorded, so it will be made available on the Institute website within the next week for you to listen again or pass on to friends.
However the big benefit of dialling in live today is that you get the opportunity to ask questions!
We not only welcome questions throughout the presentation, we encourage them! It is very simple to upload your question via the questions tab in your GoToWebinar Control Panel that you can see in the picture.
I will be moderating these as we go, but we do have a particularly large audience today so if there are too many to fit into one session, we will try and follow up with you after the webinar.
So now without further a do, let me hand over to Andrew…
Assess top 5 sites and create output material which makes a significant and tangible difference to future storage developers and complements prior work
Estimate and schedule resources needed to fully appraise, develop and operate the 5 sites
Identify specific risk factors associated with each of the 5 sites and prepare a risk reduction plan for each site
10 month project ~ 15,000 man-hours
UKSAP:
Usefulness of CO2Stored
Screening Criteria:
General from IEA GHG, Specific from project
Robust portfolio:
diverse geography, diverse geology and diverse store types to minimise systemic risk
SDPs:
Site characterisation (G, P & G), Injection Performance modelling, containment assessment, development planning, cost estimation & risk assessment. Some specialist geomechanics and geochemistry work. Key outputs are views on storage efficiency and cost contribution to the levelised cost of clean electricity generation
Scenario
Based around previous work commissioned by ETI to forecast the likely quantity, timing and geographic distribution of CO2 emissions
Developed a view of the potential costs and the relative importance of components of cost
A “how it works” manual for a CO2 store
Note that this is an iterative process & will hear a lot more about the work that goes into compiling one of these in the second session.
Physical attributes from interpretation & synthesis of seismic, geological, petrophysical & well abandonment data to yield: geological setting, rock properties, architecture of store, fluid behaviour & containment risk
Definition of storage complex.....
Injection performance: well type, size, location & injectivity
Profile: a given – based on an extrapolation of the previous work by ETI that suggestions potential timing & quantities of CO2 from various points around UK coast.
Number of wells, platform (or subsea) size, beachhead, supply pressure, pipeline diameter & length, heating & power requirements, monitoring requirements
Appraisal, FEED, construction, operations, decommissioning & PC MMV
Andrew/ Alan/ Steve/ Sharon/ Angus please feel free to send me a question in advance to get discussion started…