Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) [1]
CCUS is widely viewed as one of the solutions to reduce CO2 emissions and comply with regulations and investor requests. Domains of applications of CCUS include emissions by heavy industry such as refining, cement, steel, chemistry, LNG as well as gas treatment. The potential of CCUS is extremely important for the oil and gas sector, as it is a GHG emitter, but also because the capture and storage of CO2 requires skills and expertise which are available in the Upstream and Downstream Industry.
The IFP Energies Nouvelles group has a very strong technical, economic and scientific expertise in CCUS, from capture of CO2 to transport and injection in the subsurface. Axens, our sister company in the IFP Group, offers cost effective processes and expertise in the area of capture and acid gas treatment. Beicip-Franlab has a detailed knowledge of all aspects related to the design, implementation and follow up of a CCUS injection project, in depleted fields, associated or nor to EOR, or in saline aquifers.
Our added value comes from IFPEN R&D and innovation in CCUS and CO2-based EOR, the IFP Group Laboratory facilities, and the multidisciplinary expertise spanning from capture (Axens) to subsurface storage and CO2-based EOR (Beicip-Franlab).
Services provided are the following:
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Evaluation of CCUS storage needs and storage capacity at various scales (country, basin, group of fields, field or structure) integrating geological, geophysical, dynamic, geomechanical, HSE and regulatory aspects.
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Selection of optimal CCUS sites, technical, safety and economic aspects.
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Design and implementation of CCUS pilot, with or without EOR aspects, including acquisition and integration of laboratory data.
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Specialized studies in fluid geochemistry, rock fluid interaction, geomechanics, seal integrity, well integrity and well injectivity, corrosion
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Full field of full structure implementation with or without EOR.
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CO2-based EOR.
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Monitoring of storage site (surface, subsurface).
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Costs, economics, regulatory framework.
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Introduction [2]
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Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)
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Hydrogen [4]
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Geothermal [5]