ACT on Offshore Monitoring

The research proposed in ACTOM will work for the advancement of offshore monitoring to ensure alignment of CO2 storage projects with national and international regulations and societal concerns. An interdisciplinary consortium will apply methods to critically assess secure storage as this technology becomes implemented internationally as a key greenhouse gas emissions reductions strategy. The project has partners in USA (Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Texas at Austin), UK (Plymouth Marine Laboratory and University of Dundee), the Netherlands (TNO) and Norway (University of Bergen, NORCE and Octio Environmental). The project is cross disciplinary with member having background from law, geology, marine chemistry, mathematics, modelling and RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation). The project team will build a simulation toolkit that will, for the first time, collect algorithms for designing optimal monitoring programs for offshore geological storage sites. Routines related to detecting subtle signals of a leak in a highly varying environment will be implemented in the toolkit. Through the interdisciplinary approach, the tool will assist operators in their pre-operational phase in defining assurance monitoring programs that are aligned with regulations. The inevitable uncertainties in all measurements will be assessed, and methods on how to quantify and represent them will be recommended. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is an approach to anticipate and assess implications and expectations of new technologies grounded in the humanities and social sciences, a framework increasingly being used in marine environmental studies and in biotechnology and innovation. For the first time this framework will be used on CCUS, considering the technology in view of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In an extension of this, potential legal conflicts between storage projects, and between storage projects and other uses of the seas, will be addressed in view of Marine Spatial Planning. We will explore the utility of the web-based toolkit to provide evaluated assessments of assurance monitoring as an aid to demonstrate RRI. We have looked at expectations and constraints regulations have toward a monitoring program, and if these can be met by available monitoring technology. We found no conflicts between expectations and technical capabilities. The simulation toolbox is presently in a demonstration phase and will be further developed based on input from the legal and RRI activities in the project and through communication with industry and stakeholders.

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The research proposed in ACTOM will work for the advancement of offshore monitoring to ensure alignment of CO2 storage projects with national and international regulations and societal concerns. An interdisciplinary consortium will apply methods to critically assess secure storage as this technology becomes implemented internationally as a key greenhouse gas emissions reductions strategy. The project team will build a web-based toolkit that will, for the first time, collect algorithms for designing optimal monitoring programs for offshore geological storage sites. Routines related to detecting subtle signals of a leak in a highly varying environment will be implemented in the toolkit. Through the interdisciplinary approach, the tool will assist operators in their pre-operational phase in defining assurance monitoring programs that are aligned with regulations. The inevitable uncertainties in all measurements will be assessed, and methods on how to quantify and represent them will be recommended. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is an approach to anticipate and assess implications and expectations of new technologies grounded in the humanities and social sciences, a framework increasingly being used in marine environmental studies and in biotechnology and innovation. For the first time this framework will be used on CCUS, considering the technology in view of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In an extension of this, potential legal conflicts between storage projects, and between storage projects and other uses of the seas, will be addressed in view of Marine Spatial Planning. We will explore the utility of the web-based toolkit to provide evaluated assessments of assurance monitoring as an aid to demonstrate RRI.

Publications from Cristin

Assuring the integrity of offshore carbon dioxide storage

Towards improved monitoring of offshore carbon storage: A real-world field experiment detecting a controlled sub-seafloor CO2 release

Efficient marine environmental characterisation to support monitoring of geological CO2 storage

Numerical modelling of CO2 migration in heterogeneous sediments and leakage scenario for STEMM-CCS field experiments

Semi-conditional variational auto-encoder for flow reconstruction and uncertainty quantification from limited observations

Detection and quantification of CO2 seepage in seawater using the stoichiometric Cseep method: Results from a recent subsea CO2 release experiment in the North Sea

Impact and detectability of hypothetical CCS offshore seep scenarios as an aid to storage assurance and risk assessment

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CCS Impact on the Ocean

Filmpresentasjon om karbonlagring og juss

CCS: A Hidden Gem for Mitigating Climate Change

CO2-lagring under havbotnen krev effektiv miljøovervaking

CO2-lagring: Mer enn grønnvasking av norsk olje og gassproduksjon? Nytt industrieventyr?

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Assurance offshore CO2 monitoring, a cross-disciplinary approach.

ACT on Marine Monitoring, project presentation

Demonstration of a Semi-Automated Decision Support Toolbox to Aid Operators in the Design of Efficient Environmental Offshore Monitoring Programs for Co2 Storage Sites

The Impact of Pre-Project Data Quality and Quantity on Developing Environmental Monitoring Strategies for Offshore Carbon Storage: Case Studies from the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea.

Marine Monitoring of Storage Sites, Potential Conflicts in Regulations and Technological Capabilities

Prioritising under contested public perceptions - how policy, regulation, technology and responsible research and innovation (RRI) frame public perception on climate technologies

Monitoring offshore CO2 storage projects, aligning capabilities with regulations and public expectations.

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Report on regulations and technological capabilities for monitoring CO2 storage sites.

Report on regulations and technological capabilities for monitoring CO2 storage sites. ACTOM project report. Version 1.0

Marine Monitoring of Storage Sites, Potential Conflicts in Regulations and Technological Capabilities

IEAGHG, 4th International Workshop on Offshore Geologic CO₂ Storage, 2020-TR02, April 2020.

GRADIENT METHODS FOR SOURCE IDENTIFICATION PROBLEMS

Dynamic Mode Decomposition and Koopman Operator (Data-Driven Modeling of Complex Dynamical Systems)

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Stortinget bør setje krav til kjøparar av norsk gass (Kommentar)

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