Research Goals
Carbon Storage Permanence Technology
- Develop and validate technologies to ensure 99 percent storage permanence
- Reduce uncertainty and risk, provide a field-validated commercial toolbox, provide regulators a technical foundation for producing science-based regulations, and enable operators to meet regulatory requirements
Reservoir Storage Efficiency Technology and Containment Effectiveness
- Develop technologies to improve reservoir storage efficiency while ensuring containment effectiveness
- Develop, field test, and facilitate the integration of carbon storage technologies to demonstrate secure containment and enable safe and cost-effective management of the subsurface storage resource
Predicting CO2 Storage Capacity in Geological Formations
- Support industry’s ability to predict CO2 storage capacity in geologic formations to within ±30 percent
- Facilitate public, industry, and international community awareness and understanding of research and development (R&D) results
Carbon Storage Best Practices
- Develop Best Practice Manuals (BPMs) for Monitoring, Verification, and Accounting (MVA); site screening, selection, and initial characterization; public outreach; well management activities; and risk analysis and simulation.
Summary of Combined Research Goals
- Determine geochemical and geomechanical impacts on storage for potential, injectivity, wellbore security, storage permeance
- Track CO2 plume and pressure front in the deep subsurface
- Evaluate impacts to groundwater aquifers and atmosphere
- Evaluate onshore and offshore CO2 storage cost scenarios and refine systems for saline, residual oil zones (ROZs), and oil & gas reservoirs
- Economic review and analysis of CCUS technology and deployment, including Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) support
- Refine methods for storage estimation
- Develop and maintain carbon storage relevant data resources