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Background
The world-leading UK national CO2 storage database CO2Stored provides freely available detailed information on more than 570 prospective storage units around the UK. The database has been the starting point for all recent public-private and industry storage capacity appraisals. It provides the first, significant step to industry and researchers to inform their plans for UK-wide industrial decarbonisation by CCUS.
Dr Maxine Akhurst
Principal Investigator
British Geological Survey
Project Team
Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University:
Professor Eric Mackay
Saeed Ghanbari
British Geological Survey:
John Williams
Karen Kirk
Colin Blackburn
Amelia Baptie
Aim
The IDRIC CO2Stored 2.0 project will deliver up-to-date information on the UK storage resource for all UK clusters to plan emissions reduction by CCS. This will be achieved by consultation and feedback with IDRIC members to identify additional publicly available information for planned database updates from:
• Already-available information including government-funded investigations and research
• Update of offshore hydrocarbon field stores from available data
• Recent data sources identified and provided by IDRIC members
• IDRIC-funded CO2 storage research projects
More Detail
Meet the Team
Professor Eric Mackay
Professor Eric Mackay
Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University
Amelia Baptie
Amelia Baptie
British Geological Survey
Colin Blackburn
Colin Blackburn
British Geological Survey
Saeed Ghanbari
Saeed Ghanbari
Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering: Heriot-Watt University
John Williams
John Williams
British Geological Survey
Karen Kirk
Karen Kirk
British Geological Survey
Professor Eric Mackay
Professor Eric Mackay
Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University
Amelia Baptie
Amelia Baptie
British Geological Survey
Colin Blackburn
Colin Blackburn
British Geological Survey
Saeed Ghanbari
Saeed Ghanbari
Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering: Heriot-Watt University
John Williams
John Williams
British Geological Survey
Karen Kirk
Karen Kirk
British Geological Survey
Case Study/Progress
First update of already available information:
• Collated updated information from government-funded investigations and research.
• BEIS- and industry-supported UK FEED CCS competition & demonstration projects,
• ETI-supported Strategic Storage Appraisal Project
• Viking Gas Fields, Hamilton Gas Fields, Bunter Closure 36, Captain & Forties 5 aquifer sandstones
• Mapping of additional aquifer storage units and recalculation of values in East Irish Sea Basin
Establishing a process to update CO2Stored:
• Updated database scripts with ‘modern’ and recent software
• Scripts run and checked, including the Monte Carlo calculations
• Updated input data uploaded and checked by geoscientists
• Calculated values from updated data run and checking in progress
Second update of hydrocarbon field data:
• Data collated for offshore hydrocarbon field data available after 2011
• Reviewed the hydrocarbon field methodology and output
• Applied background principles to calculate capacity in oil & gas fields
• Output data for 241 oil fields provided to database staff
• Collation of updated gas field data in progress
Planned Outputs
First updates of UK national CO2 storage database planned late 2022 and early 2023
