Applied risk and consequence analysis for CO2 storage projects – the Captain X storage site, offshore UK (Acorn)

Niklas Heinemann; Hazel Robertson; Juan Alcalde; Alan James; Saeed Ghanbari; Clare Bond; Daniel Faulkner; Michael Allen; Eric J. Mackay; R. Stuart Haszeldine

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3365976

Applied risk and consequence analysis for CO₂ storage projects – the Captain X storage site, offshore UK (Acorn)

Niklas Heinemann^*, Hazel Robertson, Juan Alcalde, Alan James, Saeed Ghanbari, Clare Bond, Daniel Faulkner, Michael Allen, Eric J. Mackay, R. Stuart Haszeldine

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Geology and Geophysics

Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation (Unpublished paper) › peer-review

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Abstract

The Acorn project is a full-chain industrial CCS project, with collaboration between seven organizations across Europe. The aim of the project is to produce a technical development plan for a CCS hub that will capture CO2 emissions and store the CO2 at offshore subsurface storage sites under the North Sea. To assess the risk of leakage from the primary reservoir of the Captain X storage site, a risk assessment methodology based on expert elicitation was applied. Eleven leakage scenarios were designed which describe all possible leakage pathways, and a series of features, events and processes which will either enhance or reduce the likelihood and the severity of the leakage scenarios were discussed. The output of the assessment is a serious of risk matrices and spider diagrams combining the risk as well as the impact of consequences of potential leakage.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3365976
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	14th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT 2018 - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 21 Oct 2018 → 25 Oct 2018

Conference

Conference	14th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT 2018
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	21/10/18 → 25/10/18

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Acorn is a proposed, scalable full-chain industrial CCS project, with collaboration between seven organizations across Europe funded by BEIS (UK), RCN (NO) and RVO (NL), and co-funded by the European Commission under the ERA-NET ACT instrument (http://www.act-ccs.eu) of the Horizon 2020 program. The aim of the project is to produce a development plan for a CCS hub that will capture existing industrial CO2 emissions from the St Fergus Gas Terminal in north-east Scotland (UK), transport them via existing pipeline infrastructure, and store the CO2 at CO2 storage sites in the North Sea.

The Acorn project and all team members receive funded from the European Union’s H2020 Accelerating CCS technologies.

Keywords

Acorn
Captain X storage site
CO2 storage
North Sea
Risk assessment

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Heinemann, N., Robertson, H., Alcalde, J., James, A., Ghanbari, S., Bond, C., Faulkner, D., Allen, M., Mackay, E. J., & Haszeldine, R. S. (2018). Applied risk and consequence analysis for CO₂ storage projects – the Captain X storage site, offshore UK (Acorn). Paper presented at 14th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT 2018, Melbourne, Australia. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3365976

Applied risk and consequence analysis for CO₂ storage projects – the Captain X storage site, offshore UK (Acorn). / Heinemann, Niklas; Robertson, Hazel; Alcalde, Juan et al.
2018. Paper presented at 14th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT 2018, Melbourne, Australia.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation (Unpublished paper) › peer-review

Heinemann, N, Robertson, H, Alcalde, J, James, A, Ghanbari, S, Bond, C, Faulkner, D, Allen, M, Mackay, EJ & Haszeldine, RS 2018, 'Applied risk and consequence analysis for CO₂ storage projects – the Captain X storage site, offshore UK (Acorn)', Paper presented at 14th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT 2018, Melbourne, Australia, 21/10/18 - 25/10/18. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3365976

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