News

22
Jul

Practising public engagement at North Sea CCUS event

A recent international event in the Netherlands, focusing on the delivery of carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) in the North Sea region, provided delegates with the opportunity to practise methods for engaging effectively with local stakeholders.

Read full article
02
Jul

New webinar (pre-recorded): Reuse options of offshore infrastructure for CCS

Don’t miss our latest webinar, which focuses on the legal aspects of re-using North Sea infrastructure as part of future carbon capture and storage networks in the region.

Joris Gazendam, of the University of Groningen’s Centre of Energy Law, explores reuse options under the decommissioning regimes of Norway, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and considers how the temporal gap problem - the space between the end of hydrocarbon activities and the start of CO2 storage activities - can be solved.

Read full article
30
May

BLOG Passing the ‘relay baton’: findings from our focus on CO2 storage sites

By Dr Maxine Akhurst, British Geological Survey, WP3 lead

We are now midway through the ALIGN-CCUS project and, while this milestone may be of little interest to those not actively involved, for myself and the international colleagues on the project, it is a major milestone against which we measure our research progress. It also demonstrates to the national organisations who are funding our work that we are working well together to achieve their objectives.

Read full article
30
May

Knowledge-sharing: ALIGN-CCUS at 10th Trondheim CCS Conference

Next month, scientists from the ALIGN-CCUS project will travel to Norway to share their findings from a range of research areas at the 10th Trondheim CCS Conference, or TCCS10.

As we reach the midway point of ALIGN-CCUS, our project partners will present results from their leading research on public perception, enabling CO2 transport, countering the degradation of capture solvents, designing for CO2 injection and planning for offshore CO2 transport and storage.

Read full article
25
Apr

VIDEO: How do rocks store CO2?

Dr Maxine Akhurst, principal geologist at the British Geological Survey (project lead for work package 3), gets some help from two rock stars to show how certain rocks are ideal for storing the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2) deep below ground and ensuring it stays put.

By the time CO2 captured from an industrial facility arrives at a geological storage site, for example, beneath the North Sea, it will have been compressed to form a supercritical fluid, which is able to displace water from between the grains of sandstone.

Read full article

Pages