Toolbox for cost-effective and reliable CO2 Injection Wells

The IntoWell project shall explore and evaluate concepts for future CO2 storage wells, which are more robust and less expensive than today's solutions. The project shall develop validated multi-physics simulation tools to predict and assess CO2 well mechanical integrity under relevant field condition, thereby supporting reliable design with optimized well material selection, optimized operating parameters and risk handling strategies. Research based results combining both experimental understanding and numerical modelling analyses will give a greater confidence in the well design allowing safe and cost-efficient solutions. The planned research and innovations of the IntoWell project are at the international forefront, and critical to strengthen Equinor's global leading position in making CCS reach commercial scale. The IntoWell results will contribute to speed up the large-scale implementation of CCS and the realisation of the Longship project, limiting CO2 emissions in the atmosphere and avoiding irreversible climate changes.

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The IntoWell project shall explore and evaluate concepts for future CO2 storage wells, which are more robust and less expensive than today's solutions, and to operate them at their maximum capacity. The project shall develop validated multi-physics simulation tools to predict and assess CO2 well mechanical integrity under relevant field condition, thereby supporting reliable design with optimized well material selection, optimized operating parameters and risk handling strategies. The IntoWell results will contribute to speed up the large-scale implementation of CCS and the realisation of the Longship project. The project, if succeeding, is a direct answer to the need expressed by Longship to bring research and technological development for cost-efficient and reliable CCS projects both in Norway and Europe.