Carbon Capture and Storage
Help decarbonise the economy by enabling safe and economical carbon capture and storage both offshore and on land.
Why use
distributed sensing?
What is distributed sensing?
Find out hereSilixa has been devoted to help tackle the global challenges of climate change since its inception.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology offers an opportunity to reduce CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. The process consists of capturing CO2 before it enters the atmosphere; transporting the CO2 via pipeline; and injecting it underground into depleted oil and gas fields or deep saline geologic formations, where it can be securely stored.
Carbon dioxide is injected using dedicated wells in deep geologic formations for long-term storage. These wells require extensive subsurface characterization, including observations from previously drilled boreholes and indirect data from geophysical methods.
The main risks associated with CCS
Although extensive characterisation and planning for Class VI wells are undertaken, injecting large volumes of CO2 can create fractures and/or activate preexisting geological faults generating microseismic and seismic events.
Continuous monitoring is important because these events can be informative and a precursor to potential leakage pathways and/or damage to infrastructure.
The mitigation of risks involved with CO2 storage underground is possible with detailed site characterisation and advanced monitoring before, during, and after the injection period.
Fibre optic distributed sensing methods can greatly advance the spatial and temporal resolution of the data acquired during the characterisation and monitoring phases, while reducing overall monitoring costs when compared to standard methods using point transducers such as geophones, temperature, and pressure gauges.
Deployment of fibre optic sensing has a minimal environmental impact and provides large spatial coverage with no power requirements along the sensing cable.
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Michael Mondanos, PhD
Vice President
Environmental and Infrastructure
Thomas Coleman
General Manager
E&I North America
