Moomba carbon capture and storage case study: material emissions reduction at Moomba plant

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is essential for meeting the Paris agreement global emissions targets – all identified pathways to net zero 2050 emissions require large scale deployment of CCS. The Moomba CCS project is an example of the type of projects that the oil and gas industry can undertake in Australia and globally to reduce emissions and create new business opportunities. The project is a CO2 capture, transport and storage project in the Cooper Basin with the aim of delivering material emissions reduction of 1.7 mtpa CO2-e. The project utilises existing and new infrastructure as well as depleted hydrocarbon fields to capture, compress, dehydrate and store CO2 that is currently vented. This study will provide an overview of this project including the technical challenges that were overcome to enable project success.

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Carbon capture and storage in the oil and gas industry: 40 years on

The APPEA Journal ◽

10.1071/aj16259 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 57 (2) ◽

pp. 413

Author(s):

Christopher Consoli ◽

Alex Zapantis ◽

Peter Grubnic ◽

Lawrence Irlam

Keyword(s):

Oil Recovery ◽

Energy Demand ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Large Scale ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Wide Range ◽

And Storage

In 1972, carbon dioxide (CO2) began to be captured from natural gas processing plants in West Texas and transported via pipeline for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) to oil fields also in Texas. This marked the beginning of carbon capture and storage (CCS) using anthropogenic CO2. Today, there are 22 such large-scale CCS facilities in operation or under construction around the world. These 22 facilities span a wide range of capture technologies and source feedstock as well as a variety of geologic formations and terrains. Seventeen of the facilities capture CO2 primarily for EOR. However, there are also several significant-scale CCS projects using dedicated geological storage options. This paper presents a collation and summary of these projects. Moving forward, if international climate targets and aspirations are to be achieved, CCS will increasingly need to be applied to all high emission industries. In addition to climate change objectives, the fundamentals of energy demand and fossil fuel supply strongly suggests that CCS deployment will need to be rapid and global. The oil and gas sector would be expected to be part of this deployment. Indeed, the oil and gas industry has led the deployment of CCS and this paper explores the future of CCS in this industry.

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Trimmed Carbon Capture and Storage (TCCS) Technology Through Innovation Method Based on Microalga Use in Photobioreactors as Planning Strategy for Mitigation of Co2 Gas Emissions in Oil and Gas Industry

Proc of Indonesian Petroleum Association 42nd Annual Convention ◽

10.29118/ipa19.se.476 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

P. D. Pratama

Keyword(s):

Carbon Capture ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Co2 Gas ◽

Planning Strategy ◽

And Storage

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What comes next: responding to recommendations from the task force on climate-related financial disclosures (TCFD)

The APPEA Journal ◽

10.1071/aj17179 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 58 (2) ◽

pp. 633 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Shiva Tyagi

Keyword(s):

Carbon Capture ◽

Large Scale ◽

Fossil Fuels ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Task Force ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Low Carbon Economy

The task force on climate-related financial disclosures (TCFD) published its recommendations for disclosing climate-related risks in June 2017. The TCFD report represents a framework for companies to disclose climate-related information consistently in their mainstream financial filings. Reporting financial activity using the lens of climate-related risk would, according to the TCFD, help more appropriately price risks and allocate capital in the context of climate change. The initiative, while voluntary, would help speed the transition to a low-carbon economy, and help shift the corporate perspective beyond immediate concerns. The oil and gas industry can play a leading role in the transition to a low carbon economy through: carbon capture and storage, use of natural gas as a transition fuel and the implementation of large-scale renewable energy projects. Given the oil and gas industry’s global leadership in petroleum geology, resource extraction and pipeline transmission, the industry has a vital role in testing the feasibility of large-scale carbon capture and storage. Fossil fuels and renewable energy technologies have obvious complementary synergies and fossil fuels like natural gas are necessary for the reliable, affordable and low-cost transition to a low carbon transition pathway. The oil and gas industry may be the only sector with the requisite expertise and global scale of operations to test and implement large-scale renewable technology initiatives within a public-private partnership framework. Moreover, oil and gas companies are well positioned to be leaders in the effort to adapt and strengthen resilience to the effects and risks of climate change and reduce impacts.

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Microseismic monitoring for reliable CO2 injection and storage — Geophysical modeling challenges and opportunities

The Leading Edge ◽

10.1190/tle40060418.1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 40 (6) ◽

pp. 418-423 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michel Verliac ◽

Joel Le Calvez

Keyword(s):

Network Architecture ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Large Scale ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Synthetic Data ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Microseismic Monitoring ◽

Co2 Injection ◽

Time Data ◽

And Storage

Recently, the oil and gas industry started to experience a major evolution that could impact the geophysical community for decades. The effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will lead to more renewable energy and less fossil fuel consumption. In parallel, the carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) business is expected to develop rapidly. However, reliably injecting massive amounts of CO2 underground is more challenging than producing hydrocarbons from a known reservoir. Site integrity monitoring and CO2 leak detection are among the biggest challenges. Capabilities to address these challenges will be requested by regulators and the public for acceptance. This surveillance requires technologies such as microseismic monitoring either from the surface or borehole. Each CCUS project will need a preinjection feasibility study in order to design the best sensor network architecture and to set performance expectancies. Acquisition will be performed over long periods of time. Data harvesting and processing will be performed permanently in automated workflows. For these objectives, site operators must demonstrate their expertise through permanent benchmarks based on a common modeling and simulating platform. Microseismic monitoring is not fully mature and presents additional unsolved challenges for large-scale projects such as CCUS. Using a common and public geologic model to generate synthetic data is a solution to gain more credibility. Limitations can be mitigated after analyzing and quantifying gaps such as localization uncertainties. The model is complex due to the nature of CO2 injection and will evolve over time. A public consortium, such as the SEG Advanced Modeling (SEAM) Corporation, that gathers expertise to generate a common model and synthetic data sets will give the credibility and openness necessary to progress in scientific knowledge. It will also provide the necessary transparency for regulatory approval and public acceptance. A new common CCUS modeling platform offers opportunities to work more efficiently within different disciplines.

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Oxy-combustion of coal, lignite and biomass: A techno-economic analysis for a large scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in Romania

Fuel ◽

10.1016/j.fuel.2015.12.005 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 169 ◽

pp. 50-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 54

Author(s):

Calin-Cristian Cormos

Keyword(s):

Economic Analysis ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Large Scale ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

And Storage

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Life Cycle Assessment of Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage with Low-Carbon Energy Sources

10.26434/chemrxiv.14346182 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tom Terlouw ◽

Karin Treyer ◽

christian bauer ◽

Marco Mazzotti

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Large Scale ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Solid Sorbent ◽

Low Carbon Energy ◽

And Storage ◽

Limited Scope

Prospective energy scenarios usually rely on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies to achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. CDR technologies aim at removing CO2 from the atmosphere in a permanent way. However, the implementation of CDR technologies typically comes along with unintended environmental side-effects such as land transformation or water consumption. These need to be quantified before large-scale implementation of any CDR option by means of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) is considered to be among the CDR technologies closest to large-scale implementation, since first pilot and demonstration units have been installed and interactions with the environment are less complex than for biomass related CDR options. However, only very few LCA studies - with limited scope - have been conducted so far to determine the overall life-cycle environmental performance of DACCS. We provide a comprehensive LCA of different low temperature DACCS configurations - pertaining to solid sorbent-based technology - including a global and prospective analysis.

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Making the subsurface political: How enhanced oil recovery techniques reshaped the energy transition

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space ◽

10.1177/2399654419884077 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 733-750

Author(s):

Sébastien Chailleux

Keyword(s):

Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽

Oil Recovery ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Global Climate ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Social Protest ◽

Recovery Techniques ◽

And Storage

Analyzing the case of France, this article aims to explain how the development of enhanced oil recovery techniques over the last decade contributed to politicizing the subsurface, that is putting underground resources at the center of social unrest and political debates. France faced a decline of its oil and gas activity in the 1990s, followed by a renewal with subsurface activity in the late 2000s using enhanced oil recovery techniques. An industrial demonstrator for carbon capture and storage was developed between 2010 and 2013 , while projects targeting unconventional oil and gas were pushed forward between 2008 and 2011 before eventually being canceled. We analyze how the credibility, legitimacy, and governance of those techniques were developed and how conflicts made the role of the subsurface for energy transition the target of political choices. The level of political and industrial support and social protest played a key role in building project legitimacy, while the types of narratives and their credibility determined the distinct trajectories of hydraulic fracturing and carbon capture and storage in France. The conflicts over enhanced oil recovery techniques are also explained through the critical assessment of the governance framework that tends to exclude civil society stakeholders. We suggest that these conflicts illustrated a new type of politicization of the subsurface by merging geostrategic concerns with social claims about governance, ecological demands about pollution, and linking local preoccupations to global climate change.

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Actors-Network Analysis on Carbon Capture and Storage Technological Innovation System in China and the U.S

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.248.331 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 248 ◽

pp. 331-336

Author(s):

Xian Jin Lai

Keyword(s):

Technological Innovation ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Large Scale ◽

Technology Development ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Innovation System ◽

High Emission ◽

Actor Networks ◽

And Storage ◽

The U.S

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) provides important technological solutions to reduce CO2 emission at large scale for high emission countries. CCS technology is being shaped and developed within technological innovation system. The strength and composition of actor-networks in this system make a significant impact on CCS technology development. In order to facilitate the build-up of CCS innovation system, this study analyzes the actors-networks of CCS innovation system in China and the U.S, based on social-networks analysis. It is argued that there are huge differences between China and the U.S’s CCS innovation system. Therefore, the build-up of CCS innovation system in China should take characteristic approaches and policies to accelerate CCS development in the future.

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