6.2 Proving the safety of CO2 site post closure

There are several abandonment steps covering this time-interval of the CCS methodology, which starts with the cessation of the injection. The steps are mostly based on a post-injection plan, which may be already required during the project application and can serve as an overview on the necessary tasks, according to the regulations.

The requirements to prove the safety of a CO2 storage site, such as the demonstration of long-term safety, certain modelling techniques, risk management and suitable monitoring options will be discussed in this section.

The two most important factors for proving the safe containment of CO2 in a reservoir are that there are no environmental problems occurring and that the integrity of the wells in the reservoir area is provided. Extra significant data for risk assessment are any pressure differences, the loss of injectivity, the CO2plume behaviour and that no leakage is detectable.

 

in depth

6.2.1 Modelling and risk assessment

Already during the application of a storage project it is necessary to provide evidence that at the selected project sit...

6.2.2 Monitoring

Monitoring information is very relevant for providing an overview on the operational history of a site and therefore to ...

6.2.3 Demonstrating the safety of stored CO2

To demonstrate the safety of CO2 a huge variety of different information can be used....