Sleipner Vest Co2 Disposal, Co2 Injection Into a Shallow Underground Aquifer

Baklid, Alan; Korbøl, Ragnhild; Owren, Geir A.

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“…Sleipner, situated in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, is the world's longest-running industrial-scale storage project (Baklid et al 1996). This chapter firstly sets out the background and rationale for the CO 2 storage operation.…”

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Offshore CO 2 storage: Sleipner natural gas field beneath the North Sea

Chadwick

2013

Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

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Sleipner is the world's longest-running industrial-scale storage project and so far the only example of underground CO 2 storage arising as a direct response to environmental legislation. It commenced in 1996, injecting around one million (1Mt) of CO 2 per year into the Utsira Sand, a relatively shallow saline aquifer. By late 2011 over 13Mt of CO 2 had been securely stored. A comprehensive research-focussed monitoring programme has been carried out with multiple time-lapse surveys; predominantly 3D seismic but also 2D seismic, gravimetry and controlled source electromagnetics (CSEM). The time-lapse seismic data image the CO 2 plume clearly in the reservoir with very high detection capability and show no evidence of CO 2 migration from the storage reservoir into the overburden. Although not specifically designed for this purpose, the monitoring programme fulfills most of the requirements of the recently developed European regulatory framework for CO 2 underground storage.

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Offshore CO 2 storage: Sleipner natural gas field beneath the North Sea

Chadwick

2013

Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

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“…The conclusion was that the injection in "Utsira" would be feasible and safe. More details are given by Baklid et al [1].…”

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“…Its tubing is made of 25% Chromium duplex steel to be on the safe side for corrosion, otherwise the well is of a standard injection design. More details are given by Baklid et al [1].…”

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CO2 underground storage costs as experienced at Sleipner and Weyburn

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Brown

2005

Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies 7

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Two major industrial undertakings -at Sleipner and Weyburn -show the technical feasibility of storing CO 2 in underground geological formations in large volumes. Their scale makes the investment and operational costs they have experienced of interest to a wider audience.Together they cover a wide set of parameters:Sleipner is offshore in the North Sea -Weyburn is onshore on the plains of Mid-West Canada.Sleipner stores CO 2 in a deep saltwater formation -Weyburn is an Enhanced Oil Recovery project.Sleipner injects by one horizontal injection well -Weyburn uses both horizontal and vertical wells.Sleipner gets the CO 2 from natural gas produced on-the-spot -Weyburn transports CO 2 by a 330 km pipeline from a coal gasifier in the USA.Sleipner has minimal impurities -Weyburn co-injects H 2 S; a well-known Canadian procedure.This paper highlights the extra costs associated with the CO 2 injection for storage purposes only. The design and operational considerations for both projects are only summarized, since they have been reported previously. In both projects the extra equipment for the CO 2 injection/storage was part of a large industrial development project, so the costs reported herein could not be very detailed. The reported costs for the two projects are very difficult to compare since the situations were so different. SLEIPNER AND WEYBURN -TWO WORLD'S FIRSTSThe Sleipner natural gas field was the first to re-inject CO 2 to avoid emitting it to the atmosphere out of concern for climate change. Many gas fields worldwide have for decades removed CO 2 from the produced natural gas to be able to meet sales specifications-as Sleipner does. The growing international concerns over climate change and -in Norway -the CO 2 tax motivated by this, give commercial oil and gas field operations new framework conditions.

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“…The work is the quantification of gravity change associated with the sequestration of CO 2 at the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea. At this site, about 1 Mton of excess CO 2 is extracted from the natural gas each year and then injected into a porous saline aquifer (the Utsira formation) at about 1000 m below the seafloor (Baklid et al 1996). Because CO 2 has never been compressed and injected underground for sequestration before, it is important to monitor what happens as time passes.…”

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A Sea Floor Gravity Survey of the Sleipner Field to Monitor Co2 Migation

Zumberge¹

2003

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Sleipner Vest Co2 Disposal, Co2 Injection Into a Shallow Underground Aquifer

Cited by 62 publications

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Offshore CO 2 storage: Sleipner natural gas field beneath the North Sea

Offshore CO 2 storage: Sleipner natural gas field beneath the North Sea

CO2 underground storage costs as experienced at Sleipner and Weyburn

A Sea Floor Gravity Survey of the Sleipner Field to Monitor Co2 Migation

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