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CCUS project solutions and services

CCUS projects fit to your objectives using consultancy, partnerships, and flexible business models

Overview

CCUS projects on the rise

Since 2018, capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) has been gaining momentum. Project developers have announced ambitions for more than 200 new capture facilities in operation by 2030, capturing over 220 metric tons of CO₂ per year.* But how can these projects progress to a final investment decision (FID)?

Selecting the right partner is critical to the success of your project—from FID, development, and operations to long-term monitoring. SLB has been involved in more than 100 CCUS projects worldwide and across industries for the past two decades, supporting companies in their decarbonization journeys.

*IEA (2022), Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage, IEA, Paris

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We are currently engaged in multiple global projects where we provide sequestration site subsurface modeling and development plans, CO2 flow assurance, injectivity derisking, and CO2 containment monitoring. Our global CCUS projects span across onshore and offshore applications and industries—including ethanol, methanol, blue hydrogen, bioenergy with CCS (BECCS), oil and gas processing, enhanced oil recovery, cement, power, steel, and more.

Applications

CCUS is especially suited for large-scale industrial processes. Here are some key sectors that have high potential for commercial-scale deployment.

Cement and steel

The cement industry generates 7% of human-made CO₂ emissions. It has no alternative to reducing its footprint but to capture CO₂ from the calcination process and dispose of it at large scale. CCUS will play a leading role in decarbonizing this industry and other hard-to-abate sectors where other technology options are limited, such as aluminum, petrochemical, and steel.

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Blue hydrogen

There are dozens of existing steam methane reformers (SMRs) in chemical complexes and refineries. The key is to modify the SMR process to capture the CO₂ instead of venting it. This enables low- or carbon-free production of H₂. Learn more about low-carbon hydrogen production and how it enables CCUS at scale.

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BECCS

Biomass energy production combined with CCS (known as bio-CCS or BECCS) has enormous potential to remove significant amounts of CO₂ from the atmosphere while producing useful products, such as renewable fuels, hydrogen, or electricity. It also has significant market potential to capitalize on existing government-based credit incentive programs.

Benefits

Fit-for-purpose CCUS projects

SLB provides viable and scalable solutions in a wide range of industries. We offer individual services and technologies and enable holistic end-to-end solutions using flexible business models fit to your project and objectives.

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Features

Creating partnerships with industry leaders
Exploring and enabling low-cost projects in strategic locations
Seeking scale and efficiency by enabling CCS hubs

Case Studies

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US Department of Energy and ADM Optimize Carbon Sequestration Using Multizonal Intelligent Completion

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Minnkota Power Partners with SLB for CCS Evaluation

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Fiber Optics Improves Subsurface Understanding for a CCS Project

Training

Fundamental carbon capture and sequestration for managers

This virtual course will familiarize management personnel across industries about CCUS. Topics include a discussion on the global outlook for CCUS, integrated workflows for projects, key technologies, case studies, and more.

FAQs

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What does the landscape of CCUS projects look like today?

SLB has worked with companies ranging from oil and gas to utility and power, steel and cement, biomass, and more. Projects include both on- and offshore applications and have focused on injection into saline aquifers and utilized depleted oil and gas reservoirs.

What role do partnerships and collaboration play in CCUS?

Today, we are seeing more collaborative CCUS projects. We collaborate to provide reliable, efficient, and economic CCUS projects to achieve net zero. As the CCUS industry matures, we anticipate more opportunities among industry players to exchange best practices, lessons learned, and the latest in technological innovation. Ultimately, this will help drive new and innovative CCUS solutions.

What kind of planning is involved to implement a CCUS project?

We have a workflow that starts out with the preselection process. This involves us collaborating with you to assess a project’s feasibility before any further investment is done. The next step is the appraisal phase. This is where we get into the site specifics by building geological models leveraging our subsurface data and domain expertise. Then, in the development stage, we manage building out the project. This includes determining the well location for storing the CO₂, how many remaining injection and monitoring wells are required, setting up the air and ground monitoring services, and completing any other permit-specific requirements to begin injection. Next comes the injection phase followed by the final phase, postinjection, which can last up to 100 years, depending on where the project is located.

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