DLP Webinar: Monitoring CO2 plumes with mini streamers, is there potential?
| Instructor: | Mark Thompson |
|---|---|
| Duration: | 30-45 minutes + Q&A |
| Discipline: | Seismic Acquisition |
| Main topics: | Monitoring CO2 Novel Seismic Acquisition |
| Language: | English |
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Future sites for CO2 storage will be subject to regulatory requirements for monitoring to assure safe storage. Additionally, monitoring will be an important tool to optimize injection operations and confirm storage volumes. Monitorability, cost and leakage risk assessment are all important components in designing an optimal monitoring program to prove conformance (CO2 plume behaving in accordance with predictions) and containment (no leakage out of the storage complex). The potential for new technologies and ability to optimize operations were recently investigated in field trials to monitor the CO2 plume at the Sleipner field in the North Sea using the Extended High Resolution (XHR) streamer concept based on the use of mini seismic streamers.
Participants' Profile
Those interested in gaining insight into novel alternatives to monitor the subsurface and CO2 plumes in an offshore setting.
About the Lecturer
Mark completed his Master’s degree in Petroleum Geology and Geophysics from Imperial College, London, in 1989. He joined Western Geophysical immediately afterward as a marine QC Geophysicist on-board survey vessels operating in Europe. In 1991 he joined
Geco as a seismic data processing geophysicist. By 1994 he returned to an offshore position with Schlumberger Geco-Prakla working on the implementation of on-board processing (OBP) and QC workflows. He continued in the role of project support supervisor
for OBP until moving to Equinor (formerly Statoil) research in Trondheim, Norway in 1997. Since joining Equinor he has been involved in research within reservoir imaging and monitoring, winning the Statoil ‘Reodor Felgen’ award for innovation. He
has presented papers and published on a variety of topics within reservoir geophysics with an emphasis on acquisition and imaging and more recently digitalisation. He has been a distinguished lecturer for the EAGE promoting the use Ocean Bottom Seismic,
Permanent Reservoir Monitoring, and Big Data complementing these with videos for the Learning Geosciences initiative. He has led Statoil’s Research efforts within Reservoir Monitoring, Permanent Reservoir Monitoring, and is now a Senior Advisor for
Geophysics where he extending his interests into the field of CCUS and Renewable energy.