Integrated offshore CO2 reservoir monitoring feasibility study

应对气候变化是我们这个时代面临的最大挑战之一，也是应对新冠肺炎疫情后复苏的关键措施。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。实现净零温室气体（GHG）排放将需要碳捕获与封存（CCS）的基本贡献，高达75- 1.75亿吨二氧化碳当量？预计到2050年每年储存（Global CCS Institute, 2019）。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二氧化碳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来持续监测储层，该方法将检测和跟踪注入二氧化碳的空间运动，以确保二氧化碳在规定的边界内停留在地下，并警告任何潜在的二氧化碳泄漏。该技术可以以一种经济高效的方式部署，不需要专业的海上部署船，并且可以有效地部署到海底，在注入期间对目标油藏和注入的二氧化碳进行连续的微地震监测，直到注入的二氧化碳在油藏的存储边界范围内被安全保护。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二氧化碳现场监测。在油藏表征和流体注入监测的成功案例研究的支持下，TenzorGEO正在推动PMT在海上CCS中的应用，以实现英国的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一种经济有效的方式安全监测二氧化碳的地下储存，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还将支持企业（CCS运营商）从疫情中恢复过来，CCS支持英国政府和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.