2019 US/Norway Bilateral Storage Breakout Session

2019 US/Norway Bilateral Storage Breakout Session

Thursday 29 August 14:00-17:30

Welcome and objectives, Darin Damiani, DOE

Update on ongoing projects 

• Update on Northern Lights– Eva Halland, NPD & Philip Ringrose, Equinor

• Update on CO2-data-share – Philip Ringrose, Equinor

• Update on Wellbore integrity Atlas – Susan Carroll LLNL

• Norway projects on monitoring microseismicity – Bettina Goertz-Allmann, NORSAR

• Cypress Pressure Analysis Toolkit: A Success Story – Josh White LLNL.

Break

Emerging areas for future R&D

• Seeking first projects in the offshore – Tip Meckel UT Austin BEG

• Monitoring and modelling CO2plume at Sleipner - Amir Ghaderi, Sintef

• Update on modeling the CO2plume at Sleipner – Odd Andersen, Sintef

• Advances in foam cement for wellbore construction – Barbara Kutchko NETL

• Norway projects on well technology & integrity – Colin Beharie, Wellcem

• Can we achieve gigatonne CO2storage? - Sarah Eileen Gasda, Norce

Break

Discussion. Some suggested questions for the group:

·      What R&D would be most impactful at an offshore pilot-scale storage project, commercial-scale project?

·      To our Norwegian colleagues: given what you’ve seen on US R&D projects at our conference, are there any collaborative opportunities that stand out?

·      Others from the group…