Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
The technological delivery of CCS requires the cooperation of industries from the Power Sector (and other sources of emissions) through to the Oil and Gas Sector who have the experience required to explore, inject and monitor the subsurface safely. Traditionally, these stakeholders did not need to work closely. Now, there is a need for these industries to communicate in order to work towards the common objective of making CCS a reality.
Power generation is typically fits a risk averse business model; power stations are heavily engineered with well defined performance expectations, the demand is predictable and resources sourced in advance with confidence of delivery.
The oil and gas industry is a high risk business model where the frequent expense of testing unsuccessful potential resources is more than counteracted by the large profits derived from successful projects.
The building of trust between these stakeholders with different risk profiles and basic assumptions has been supported by the Scottish Center of Carbon Storage.
Short Course
I currently offer a CPD course on:Risk and Uncertainty in the Geological Storage of CO2
Postdocs
Dr Neil Burnside: Scoping actuarial risk of CO2 storageProjects
Conversion of natural gas column height to CO2 column heightPhase behaviour of CO2 and multicomponent gasses in the subsurface
QICS - Quantifying and monitoring potential ecosystem impacts of geological carbon storage (NERC)CASSEM (TSB, EPSRC, Industrial Partners)
Storage Risk Quantification
