Geological storage of CO2 in saline aquifers or depleted oil/gas reservoirs is a paramount solution to reduce human-induced CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Many nations are planning large-scale CO2 storage projects worldwide to follow the Paris Accords to keep global warming below 1.5 to 20C. Seal or caprock quality is highly critical for any safe and successful CO2 storage. This presentation will focus on seal quality assessment of potential CO2 storage in 3 exploitation licenses EL001 (Aurora), EL002 (Smeaheia) and EL004 (Luna), in the Troll area, offshore Norway. The ultimate goal is to show how the seal units of saline aquifers and depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs are characterised using multi-disciplinary techniques of geology, geophysics, petrophysics, rock physics, geomechanics and machine learning.
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Once a month, researchers at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, will tell about their research and introduce the geociences to a wide audience, from first-year undergraduates, colleagues to interested in general. It is possible to ask questions after the lectures.
Coffee/tea are served. Everyone is welcome!
The lectures are streamed. You can watch the stream at Realfagsbiblioteket YouTube-channel.