This lecture reviews issues critical to well drilling and completion for CO2 sequestration projects.

This session will describe a proven and defensible methodology for identification of candidate sites and selection of preferred sites for CCS projects using objective and verifiable criteria. It will also describe environmental review requirements (including public involvement activities) and best practices for meeting them.  Commercial CCS site developers will use this information to promote the siting and construction of CCS projects in a timely, environmentally sound, and publicly acceptable manner.

This lecture is intended to serve as an introduction to geologic sequestration from a reservoir engineering point of view.

Planning, design, construction and operation of sequestration project, like most large-scale project, represent a significant set of interrelated challenges: technical, regulatory, stakeholder and public acceptance, a project development team that typically encompasses numerous industrial partners, involvement of the federal government, and integration with other contractors (e.g., the contractor responsible for design and construction of the power facility).  This lecture will cover an approach to successfully managing technical objectives, expectations, requirements, integration, out

This lecture will describe state of environmental permitting concerning CCS sites.

Numerical simulation is an analytical tool that allows scientists and engineers to predict the fate of carbon dioxide injected into deep geologic reservoirs, to estimate the consequences of potential leaks from the reservoir, and to assess system performance when used in conjunction with geophysical monitoring data.  This lecture introduces the student to the numerical simulation of multifluid subsurface flow and reactive transport in nonisothermal environments.  Using a basalt sequestration site as the example, the lecture describes the simulation process from developing a geolog

Geochemistry involves the study of the geologic processes that interact strongly with the chemical compositions of materials in the earth's crust. Scientists use the principals of geochemistry in combination with information from laboratory experiments, computer modeling, and/or field sites to understand the processes that affect the injection and sequestration of CO2 storage under those geologic conditions.

This lecture will cover the basics of evaluating existing geologic data to develop gross volumetric CO2 storage capacity estimates.

CCS projects must successfully demonstrate the viability of safely storing injected CO2 in geologic formations. This lecture covers tools, technologies, workflows and best practices in characterization of the surface and subsurface in support of permitting, reservoir management, and monitoring activities, as well as ultimate site closure. Case histories will include sedimentary and basalt site characterization, with an emphasis on special challenges of flood basalt reservoirs of the Pacific Northwest.

Ensuring that CCS is safe and effective will require regulatory oversight, careful management of site selection and acquisition of monitoring data, and verification of geologic storage.