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Carbon sequestration

Delivering reliable, cost-efficient, and long-term CO2 storage

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Overview

Carbon storage that lasts—for good

Effective carbon sequestration—or carbon storage—requires precise selection, planning, development, operation, and monitoring of the carbon storage site. Using the right experience, right know-how, and right technologies, SLB optimizes these storage phases to derisk carbon storage and lower costs.

SLB has more than 100 years of experience in mapping, measuring, and modeling underground rock formations. And we’ve participated in more than 100 sequestration projects in different geological contexts over the last two decades using innovative solutions. This experience gives us detailed insight into the varied challenges posed by CO₂ storage. Integrating geoscience, engineering, and digital capabilities, we’re able to deliver reliable, economical, and sustainable carbon storage projects.

Improve time to FID

We use our industry-leading suite of tools and workflows—from screening and ranking potential sites to obtaining subsurface measurements to modeling, simulating, and evaluating your site's performance. This results in a better understanding of the storage site and project feasibility and a shorter timeline to a final investment decision (FID).

Optimize planning, development, and injection

SLB solutions cover the full spectrum, from planning and site development to injection and monitoring. With a tailored suite of CCS technologies, we help to reduce risk and provide assurance for long-term storage.

Understand long-term CO2 behavior

We’ve developed modeling tools to predict CO₂ plume migration. Combined with our data acquisition technologies during and postinjection, this results in an accurate representation of injected CO₂volumes.

Screening and ranking

Selecting the right storage site early on is key. This will help avoid unnecessary costs associated with appraising unsuitable sites. To find the most suitable storage sites, we've developed our carbon storage site screening and ranking solution to deliver actionable insights that help derisk potential sites for economic feasibility and long-term reliability. Within your area of interest, we collect the available data and select candidates for further evaluation.

Derisking your carbon storage strategy through actionable insights.

Feasibility and appraisal

From your highest ranked prospective sites, it's essential to evaluate them for reliable, economical, and sustainable carbon storage—their feasibility. And this determines whether to proceed with storage appraisal. The key criteria:

Capacity—How much CO₂ can be effectively stored at the site?
Containment—Does the storage site provide sufficient seal capacity to prevent CO2 leaks to surface?
Injectivity—What injection rates can be achieved?

We enable accurately assessing long-term performance and project viability using

advanced measurements of capacity, injectivity, and containment using dedicated workflows
rock and fluid labs to characterize the subsurface
digital technologies through our carbon storage site evaluation solution

Injection planning and MMV

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Together, we develop specific plans for reliable storage. This includes an injection plan and monitoring, measurement, and verification (MMV) plan. Whereas the injection plan defines the the optimal surface and subsurface development and carbon injection scenarios, the MMV plan demonstrates integrity of the storage site and conformance with the predicted CO₂ migration models. The plan defines the technology selection that is best suited for the specific site and injection conditions and is based on evaluation of the associated risks.

High confidence in long-term integrity will only be achieved by having a site that has been well chosen, well planned, well operated, and well monitored.

That’s what we do.

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Our work in action

Enabled by our digital capabilities, technologies, and expertise, SLB was selected to use the DELFI cognitive E&P environment on the Norwegian CO₂ project by the Northern Lights JV to streamline subsurface workflows and longer-term modeling and surveillance of CO₂ storage. The JV was established to develop the world’s first open-source CO₂ transport and storage infrastructure—accelerating decarbonization opportunities for European industries to store up to 5 million metric tons of CO₂ per year based on market demand.

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