Advanced Gas and Carbon Dioxide Storage in Aquifer

About this project

<p>Carbon geological storage (CGS) as an element of the CCUS/CCS process is considered to be the most viable option for the storage of the large CO2 quantities needed to reduce global warming and related climate change effectively. Storage of natural gas and partially decarbonized gas (with addition H2) will play a vital role in the stability of energy supply in the EU. The innovative, guiding concept of the AGaStor project is based on synergy between natural gas storage and CO2 storage process in a location near captured CO2 emission sources (e.g. in NW Poland). The main objective of the project is to facilitate the implementation of advanced Underground Gas Storage (UGS) using dynamic support of Carbon Dioxide Cushion (CDC) in saline aquifers. The location of this storage will be selected in the proximity of industrial CO2 source, LNG receiving terminal and “Baltic Pipe” gas interconnector NO-PL. The fundamental advantage of the CO2 gas cushion is an environmental and economic benefit. A key innovation will be development of new &amp; safe technology for CO2 storage as a cushion (or part of cushion) in energy gas storage build in aquifers. The project will produce practical guidelines and solutions for characterization of possible storage sites of UNGS with CDC (3D architecture of the storage complex, trapping mechanisms, reactive flow, CO2/NG mixing process, risk assessment and sensitivity analysis) in selected regions of future deployment, improved monitoring and potential mitigation of CO2 leakage. Combining CO2 storage with UGS can bring economic and technological advantages to the industry and allow it to reduce the amount of anthropogenic emissions of CO2. This new CCUS element may be an element of pro-climate action. A key issue of the AGaStor project will be knowledge exchange and enhanced cooperation between the Polish &amp; Norwegian partners to determine the best technologies &amp; application in the energy systems of partner countries.</p>

Bilateral cooperation results

The experience of the bilateral partnership was a key contribution to the project on several levels: - good practices in the transformation of a university that was originally a base for the mining industry into an academic centre actively involved in the green transformation, - examples of CCUS projects implemented and continued in Norway, also in terms of commercial potential (Snohvit or Langskip Projects), - current theoretical and empirical achievements of Norwegian social scientists in the field of social perception of CCUS projects, - input from UiS to results in WP3, WP4 and WP6; - joint publications and presenatations at conferences. The cooperation resulted in further plans to create a theoretical and research team focused on energy transformation issues in the social dimension, including in post-industrial and post-mining regions.

Project partners

• University of Stavanger Donor project partner· Norway