Containment risk Mitigation in Indian CO2 Storage (COMICS)

印度二氧化碳封存的遏制风险缓解 (COMICS)

• 批准号: NE/T004649/1
• 负责人: John Williams
• 金额: $ 11.07万
• 依托单位: British Geological Survey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FT004649%2F1
• 关键词: Containment; risk; Mitigation; Indian; CO2

As a signatory to the December 2015 Paris Agreement, India is committed to joining the global community in stabilising global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Centigrade. Rapidly growing economies such as India are faced with the challenge of reducing emissions from the heavy industry and power sectors while ensuring continued economic growth. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), where CO2 is removed from flue gases and injected into deep geological formations for permanent disposal, is recognised by the IPCC as an essential technology for meeting climate goals at least cost. While high-level studies have identified some potential for CO2 storage in India, a perception remains that injected CO2 may migrate upwards from the intended storage reservoir towards the surface. Lack of fundamental research that addresses this issue prohibits detailed assessment of the potential for CCS to contribute to emission reductions in India.COMICS will establish an international partnership to understand the potential for safe and secure CO2 storage in India's sedimentary basins. The team comprises researchers from the British Geological Survey (BGS) and two leading Indian research institutes engaged in CCS, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) and the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI). A new £0.5M project announced by the Indian Government's Ministry of Science and Technology 'A systematic large scale assessment for potential of CO2 enhanced oil and natural gas recovery in key sedimentary basins in India' is led by IITB. The project comprises research groups; Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, and industrial partners; Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, National Thermal Power Corporation, Essar Oil and Gas, and the West Bengal Power Development Corporation.COMICS will complement the new Indian-funded project, combining local knowledge and expertise of the Indian consortium with the experience of the BGS CO2 storage research team. BGS has been active in CO2 research for over two decades, and undertakes related research in overburden properties, fluid-migration process, and monitoring requirements, funded by combination of UKRI (such as the current NERC Migration of CO2 through North Sea Geological Carbon Storage Sites, UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre 2017) and EC H2020 projects (such as SECURe and ENOS). Our current research portfolio is worth over £5M. The COMICS project will extend these endeavours to include Indian data acquired through the new partnership, bringing new insights to CO2 storage processes in a region recognised as being vital to meeting regional and global climate ambitions.The project will initially focus on the Cambay Basin, where the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation have proposed a pilot CO2 injection project for enhanced oil recovery. The assessment of CO2 containment risks and monitoring and conformance requirements imposed by the specific geological setting are critically important. Based on the scientific research undertaken by COMICS, recommendations for safe and secure CO2 storage in the region will be developed. The research will underpin future research and development activities, including the development of new pilot CO2 injection studies. The results will also support nascent policy and commercial development of CCS through collaboration with industrial partners and state-owned companies engaged in the parallel Government of India-funded project. Facilitating CO2 emission reductions in India through targeted research activities is a key aim of COMICS. The proposed activities are aimed at securing future joint research opportunities for UK-India collaboration through Mission Innovation, existing UKRI programmes, and transnational UK Government (BEIS) funding to foster research and innovation related to accelerating CCS technologies.

作为2015年12月《巴黎协定》的签署国，印度致力于加入国际社会，将全球气温上升稳定在2摄氏度以下。印度等快速增长的经济体面临着在确保经济持续增长的同时减少重工业和电力部门排放的挑战。碳捕获和储存（CCS）是将二氧化碳从烟道气中去除并注入深层地质层进行永久处置，被IPCC认为是以最低成本实现气候目标的关键技术。虽然高水平的研究已经确定了印度二氧化碳储存的一些潜力，但人们仍然认为注入的二氧化碳可能会从预期的储存库向上迁移到地面。由于缺乏解决这一问题的基础研究，无法详细评估CCS对印度减排的潜力。COMICS将建立一个国际伙伴关系，以了解印度沉积盆地安全可靠的CO2储存潜力。该小组的研究人员来自英国地质调查局和印度从事CCS研究的两个主要研究机构，即印度孟买技术研究所和国家地球物理研究所。印度政府科学技术部宣布的一个新的50万英镑项目“印度主要沉积盆地CO2强化石油和天然气开采潜力的系统性大规模评估”由IITB领导。该项目包括研究小组;印度管理学院艾哈迈达巴德，印度理工学院鲁尔基，和工业合作伙伴; COMICS公司将与印度石油天然气公司、印度国家热电公司、西孟加拉邦石油天然气公司和西孟加拉邦电力开发公司合作，将印度财团的当地知识和专业知识与BGS CO2储存研究团队的经验相结合，补充新的印度资助项目。BGS在二氧化碳研究领域已经活跃了二十多年，并在覆盖层特性，流体迁移过程和监测要求方面进行了相关研究，由UKRI（例如目前的NERC通过北海地质碳储存点的二氧化碳迁移，英国碳捕获和储存研究中心2017）和EC H2020项目（例如ECO 2和ENOS）的联合资助。我们目前的研究投资组合价值超过500万英镑。COMICS项目将把这些努力扩展到包括通过新的合作伙伴关系获得的印度数据，为该地区的二氧化碳储存过程带来新的见解，该地区被认为对实现区域和全球气候目标至关重要。该项目最初将集中在Cambay盆地，石油和天然气公司已经提出了一个试点二氧化碳注入项目，以提高石油采收率。对CO2遏制风险的评估以及特定地质环境所规定的监测和符合性要求至关重要。将根据COMICS开展的科学研究，制定关于该区域安全可靠的CO2储存的建议。这项研究将支持未来的研究和开发活动，包括开发新的二氧化碳注入试验研究。研究结果还将通过与参与印度政府资助的平行项目的工业合作伙伴和国有公司的合作，支持CCS的新生政策和商业发展。通过有针对性的研究活动促进印度的二氧化碳减排是COMICS的一个关键目标。拟议的活动旨在通过使命创新、现有的UKRI计划和跨国英国政府（BEIS）资助，为英印合作确保未来的联合研究机会，以促进与加速CCS技术相关的研究和创新。