OR/16/029 Summary and conclusions
| Pearce, J M, Akhurst, M C, Jones, D G, Vincent, C J and Booth, J H. 2016. Pathways from pilot to demonstration: How can research advance CO2 geological storage deployment? (Energy and Marine Geosciences Programme) British Geological Survey External Report, OR/16/029. |
A number of ideas were proposed that delegates considered would help enable collaboration and support further CCS deployment. These activities are as follows:
- Co-operate during project planning and progress to enable comparison of datasets.
Discussions between project teams both during the planning of pilot-scale projects and during their operation could significantly improve opportunities for the development of datasets that could be more easily compared. - Agree acquisition of appropriate datasets.
By acquiring data in similar formats would enable easier comparisons between datasets at different pilot sites. This could also include use of accepted feature descriptions rather than geological ages or stratigraphic names. To allow comparisons, petrophysical descriptions of geological units are more important than their stratigraphic descriptions. - Identify common issues, processes and technologies.
Research groups should identify common hypotheses, processes and technologies that can be addressed by comparison and interrogation of data from two or more sites. - Agree a process between projects to extend project objectives.
It would be very beneficial to develop a process, possibly facilitated by an international organisation, whereby the project objectives can be extended through additional collaborative research opportunities. - Access funding to collaborate.
Funding should be sought through international collaborative mechnisms to enable knowledge exchange between projects and to support collaboration with other projects and sites - Seek funding to present ‘clean’ data sufficient to enable comparison between sites
- Pilot projects to ‘piggy-back’ on large projects to address additional research questions and extend the knowledge generated on expenditure of research resources.
BGS undertook to discuss some of these ideas with relevant organisations and report back to the attendees.