Geological Carbon Storage

Prudent handling and management of CO2 are required to offset potential health hazards. One critical issue for evaluating storage capacity is the integrity and effectiveness of geologic formations for sealing carbon dioxide underground, preventing its release into underground sources of drinking water, mineral resources or the atmosphere. Candidate sites must have sufficient capacity to accept the volume of carbon dioxide expected for the life of the sequestration project and the geologic structure to ensure long-term containment of the carbon dioxide. Brief and readable, this book describes all of the key subsurface issues that need to be considered in GCS projects, with relevant risk and uncertainty management tools and techniques being illustrated through practical examples applied to these issues. With this book engineers and scientist have a valuable guide for answering the following critical questions:

- Is there enough capacity to store CO2 broadly?

- Do we understand storage mechanisms well enough?

- Could we certify and decertify injection sites with our current level of understanding?

- Once injected, can we monitor and verify the subsurface CO2?

The proposed book will bridge this gap and provide a comprehensive description of the key issue for geological carbon storage (GCS) projects - subsurface risk and uncertainty - as well as practical guidance (a Toolkit of techniques with worked examples) on managing these risks to support informed decision making by geologists, engineers and asset managers applying GCS either as part of an oil and gas development or as a stand-alone GCS project.