Integrated offshore CO2 reservoir monitoring feasibility study

应对气候变化是我们这个时代最大的挑战之一，也是应对Covid-19后复苏的关键措施。为了缓解气候变化，我们必须采取行动，减少或防止与人类活动有关的排放。实现温室气体（GHG）净零排放将需要碳捕获和封存（CCS）的基本贡献，高达75-175 MtCO？预计到2050年每年储存一次（全球CCS研究所，2019年）。CCS在英国的大规模开发和部署已经停滞了一段时间，这是由于相关的高成本和对封存的CO2从水库泄漏到环境中的担忧。TenzorGEO旨在通过创新一种方法来解决这一挑战/障碍，该方法使用地球物理方法持续监测储层，该方法将检测和跟踪注入的CO2的空间运动，以确保CO2留在定义的边界内的地面上，并警告任何潜在的CO2泄漏。该技术可以以具有成本效益的方式部署，而不需要专业的海上部署船，并且可以有效地部署到海底，以在注入期间提供对目标储层和注入的CO2的连续微震监测，直到注入的CO2安全地固定在储层中的存储边界的范围内。TenzorGEO是被动微地震技术（PMT）的领导者，旨在利用这种成像技术来优化长期的CO2现场监测。在成功的储层表征和流体注入监测案例研究的支持下，TenzorGEO正在努力将PMT的应用扩展到海上CCS，以实现其使命，在英国实现NetZero目标，并在应对气候变化的斗争中帮助减少全球二氧化碳排放。这一创新将使能源公司、石油和天然气运营商以及监管机构能够以具有成本效益的方式安全地监测地下二氧化碳的储存，并防止由于早期预警而导致的泄漏，从而使CCS成为一种普遍、可靠和可扩展的选择，以防止二氧化碳释放到大气中，并有助于减轻全球变暖和气候变化的不利影响。该解决方案的成本效益亦将支持企业（CCS运营商）从疫情中复苏，CCS支持英国政府及油气管理局的能源转型计划。

Combating climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time and is a critical measure to combat in the post Covid-19 recovery. To mitigate it, we must act to reduce or prevent the emissions linked to human activities. Reaching net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is going to require fundamental contributions from Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), with up to 75-175 MtCO? expected to be stored annually by 2050 (Global CCS Institute, 2019). The wide scale development and deployment of CCS in the UK has stalled for a while and this is due to the high costs associated and fear of sequestered CO2 leaking out of the reservoir and into the environment. TenzorGEO aims to address this challenge/barrier by innovating a method to continuously monitor the reservoir using geophysical methods that will detect and track the spatial movement of injected CO2, to ensure the CO2 stays in the ground within defined boundaries and warn of any potential CO2 leakage. The technology can be deployed in a cost-effective way without the need for a specialist offshore deployment vessel and can be deployed efficiently to the seabed to offer continuous microseismic monitoring of the target reservoir and injected CO2 over the period of injection and until the injected CO2 is safely secured within the confines of the storage boundaries in the reservoir. TenzorGEO is a leader in passive microseismic technology (PMT) and aims to leverage this imaging technique to optimise long term CO2 site monitoring. Backed by successful case studies of reservoir characterisation and fluid injection monitoring, TenzorGEO are now pushing the envelope to extend the application of PMT to offshore CCS in its mission to achieve NetZero target in the UK and help reduce global CO2 emissions in the battle against climate change. This innovation will enable energy companies, oil and gas operators, and regulatory organisations to safely monitor the storage of CO2 underground in a cost effective way and prevent leakage due to early warning, thus allowing CCS to become a prevalent, reliable and scalable option to prevent the release of CO2 in to the atmosphere and help mitigate against the adverse effect of global warming and climate change. The cost-effectiveness of this solution will also support businesses (CCS operators) to recover from the pandemic with CCS underpinning the UK government and oil and gas authority energy transition plan.