Jon Peder Eliasson
Senior Research Scientist- Name
- Jon Peder Eliasson
- Title
- Senior Research Scientist
- Phone
- 473 69 732
- Department
- Petroleum
- Office
- Trondheim
- Company
- SINTEF AS
Cost-efficient CO2 monitoring technology
One of the keys for safe CO2 storage is that industry operators comply with monitoring regulations. Monitoring the storage site is potentially very expensive. The main ambition of this Task is to develop and demonstrate monitoring technology which will enable safe operation in compliance with laws and regulations in the most cost-efficient manner. This will benefit our industry partners, like Shell, Statoil, Total and others.
To ensure optimal industry relevance and the highest possible relevance for the Northern Lights project (Statoil, Shell and Total's carbon storage project) on the Norwegian Continental Shelf at Smeaheia, the industry will be closely involved thorough the lifetime of the Task. Involvement of vendors with expertise from oil and gas monitoring will also be important, and we will seek to have a dialogue with regulators.
Most of the monitoring activities in this Task are related to both Deployment Cases, since similar geophysical monitoring technologies are expected to be used in both cases.
Results 2017
The task focused on setting up synthetic Smeaheia geophysical models, on developing new approaches for efficient use of available data for quantitative CO2 monitoring, and on using a statistical value-of-information concept for cost-minimization of CO2 monitoring.
For Smeaheia, Statoil's CO2 injection simulations were used to build synthetic models of the subsurface acoustic velocity, resistivity, and density at different times during and after the injection. These models together with Smeaheia data provided by Gassnova will serve as very important input for targeted Smeaheia monitoring studies in the years to come in NCCS.
Work on quantitative CO2 monitoring at Sleipner led to promising results that was presented at several workshops and conferences and published in several journals. In total, six publications were produced.
Industry partners Statoil, Shell and Total, as well as vendor Quad Geometrics have contributed to the task and participated in a workshop in September. Late in 2017, EMGS confirmed that they want to join the task as a vendor.