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WP5Safety

WP5’s main goal is to ensure the proposed storage pilots meet the best safety and performance standards, with no significant risk of leakage or damage. 

 

  • Provide the methodological framework for the safety and performance analysis; methods based on best practice in risk management and decision analysis. 
  • Apply risk management workflow to the three promising regions and make recommendations to guide implementation of the pilots
  • Safety objectives to follow the EU CCS directive: “no significant risk of leakage or damage to human health or the environment”. 
  • Main safety objectives are: containment of stored CO2; limit the impact to health or environment due to leakage; prevent water contamination; manage pressure build up in the formation.
  • Main performance objectives are: ensure sufficient capacity in the reservoirs; maintain injectivity; and keep costs reasonable to support CCS deployment at scale

Outputs

D5.1 Methodological guidelines for risk assessment

This report details the method that will guide the work performed as part of work package (WP) 5 “Safety and performance” of the PilotSTRATEGY project. A robust and shared method for risk management is needed to increase the chance that future CO2 geological storage pilots can be operated with the highest level of safety and performance.

Other Work Packages

WP1

Management

Overall coordination and management of the project internally and externally

  • Day-to-day project management
  • Project Consortium Agreement monitoring
  • Risk management and quality control
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WP2

Geo-characterisation

Assembling, acquiring and interpreting geological data

  • Geological modelling of pilot sites (Ebro, Lusitanian and Orleans-Paris Basins)
  • Bespoke data acquisition and usage for each pilot region
  • Re-interpret data for secondary sites (Upper Silesia, West Macedonia)
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WP3

Simulation

Assessment of site storage capacity and integrity

  • Storage capacity and injection strategy
  • CO2 fate in the long term
  • Integrity of near wellbore caprock and fault/fractures
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WP4

Pilot Development

Development concepts for proposed pilots (Ebro, Lusitanian and Orleans-Paris Basins)

  • Information to enable decision on viability of each pilot
  • Pilot design and investment proposal
  • Robust project life-cycle
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WP5

Safety

Ensuring proposed pilots meet the best safety and performance standards

  • Ensure no significant risk of leakage or damage to human health/environment
  • Methodological framework and guidance
  • Recommendations for pilot implementation
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WP6

Social Acceptance

Investigating societal acceptance and public engagement

  • Understand public attitudes and needs
  • Build community and stakeholder participation
  • Develop public engagement recommendations
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WP7

Communications & Impact

Increasing the visibility and impact of the project

  • Communicate vision and findings
  • Deliver dissemination activities
  • Project data and impact management
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