CCS: At a Glance
Why Carbon Capture?
“CCS is a climate game-changer. It is one of the few technologies able to adequately displace CO2 from coal and gas-fired power stations and the only technology capable of reducing large-scale emissions from myriad industrial sources.”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and International Energy Agency (IEA) have both evidenced the critical role that CCS must play in meeting global emissions reduction goals.
Global CCS Instituted
Leveraging 86 years of global experience and expertise in reservoir description and characterization, Core Laboratories is your premier partner for CCS subsurface characterization.
We deliver best in class custom evaluation programs to ensure comprehensive subsurface risk assessment and timely regulatory compliance.
Further downstream, we are also a trusted partner for quantity and quality inspection services for carbon storage monitoring, verification, and reporting.
Geological Analysis
Dual Energy CT combined with integrated core description helps identify lithologies to calibrate geological interpretation on un-cored wells allowing for intelligent sampling to characterize the varying facies and potential injection sites.
Seal Capacity
Caprock analysis to measure Capillary Entry Pressure utilizing CO2 for threshold entry pressure tests. Unconventional characterization to quantify porosity and permeability for CO2 storage and intrusion models.
Petrography
Combining thin section analysis with Core Laboratories proprietary RAPIDZoomTM scanning technology and XRD/XRF mineralogy analysis allows further calibration of facies models and identification of damaging mineralogy and clays to refine formation damage testing protocols.
Flow Analysis
Testing of Relative Permeability to CO2 and water to calibrate Reservoir Model Forecasting for CO2 migration and trapping. Identify Formation Damage issues that could cause permeability loss during injection.
Modeling
Data inputs refine reservoir simulation models for predictive evaluation of geochemical and pressure effects of storage and injection.
Fluid Analysis
Brine composition and CO2 analysis to determine quality and potential components, including methane, NOx or SOx, that will affect fluid behavior. Minimum Miscibility Testing for depleted oil targets or Enhanced Oil Recovery.
CCUS Consortium
Core Laboratories is offering an industry led consortium to address and understand the risks and challenges associated with geological storage of CO2.
2022 Program Details
• Geochemical Alterations
Determine geological effects on seal with extended exposure to acidic fluids
• Seal Capacity Limits
Measure Threshold Entry Pressure on aquifer seal selections using acidic fluids, monitoring changes over extended exposure times. Gather interfacial tension and contact angle measurements on varying quality of CO2 samples for more accurate seal capacity simulations.
• Cement Integrity
Address leakage hazards on legacy wellbores and provide quantitative comparisons of various cement blends.
86 years of Reservoir Evaluation. Any Reservoir.
Monitoring, Reporting and Verification
Quality and Quantity programs to provide a trusted monitoring strategy in order to understand efficiency of capture and storage.
Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) has gained increased attention as a method to reduce emissions of anthropogenic carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. However, the captured carbon dioxide will always contain some additional components, called impurities. Some significant challenges to CCUS are the cost of building and operating capture-ready industrial facilities, the feasibility of permanently storing carbon dioxide underground, the difficulty of constructing infrastructure to transport carbon dioxide to injection sites and the purity of carbon dioxide required for utilization processes.
Quality considerations
It has shown experimentally that certain combinations of impurities react if they are present above a critical concentration. H2O, H2S, SO2, NO2, and O2 at concentrations much less than 100 ppm react and create separate aqueous phases containing high concentrations (several mol/kg) of sulphuric and nitric acid. The acidic aqueous phase may introduce corrosion problems in the carbon dioxide transportation system, depending on the materials from which the infrastructure in made of. Elemental sulphur is another possible reaction product if it precipitates a solid and creates particulate in the transportation system.
Automated Rel-K
for CO2 Flow Experiments
Core Laboritories Instruments' Automated Relative Permeability System was designed to handle specific flow studies needed to understand the mechanisms and modeling inputs for CO2 injection. This unit is fully customizable, with configurations available for confining pressures up to 15,000 psig, pore pressure up to 12,000 psig and temperatures up to 392oF (200oC). Automated data acquisition and logging of pressures, temperature, flow rate and volumetric data.
Case Studies
Our integrated team of experts work to provide input on various aspects of your CO2 injection and sequestration program. Specifically designed case studies offer solutions to address challenges associated with these storage operations, ensuring proper data is gathered to meet regulatory requirements for safe and effective CO2 storage.
Dissolution and Precipitation
Effects on Seals and Wellbore Cements
An experiment was designed to visualize and quantify the dissolution effects from acidic, CO2 enriched brines over a prolonged period of time to understand how the subtle geochemical changes impact strength. Dissolution effects were measured on pre and post testing and precipitation was modeled to predict potential permeability restricting deposits.
Thermal Shock and Cooling
Impact on Formation and Strength from Joule-Thomson Cooling Effect
Depending on the transportation and pressure reduction process, CO2 can reach sub-zero temperatures during injection. Geomechanical lab studies provide insight into how the mineral and rock strength are impacted due to the thermal effects of this extreme cooling.
What's Happening?
16 March 2022
Core Laboratories Announces a Strategic Alliance with Talos Energy Inc.
AMSTERDAM (17 March 2022) -
Core Laboratories N.V. (NYSE: "CLB US" and Euronext Amsterdam: "CLB NA") ("Core", "Core Lab", or the "Company") and Talos Energy Inc. ("Talos") (NYSE: "TALO") have announced a strategic alliance to provide technical evaluation and assurance for carbon capture and sequestration ("CCS") opportunities. The alliance combines Core Lab's market-leading reservoir description and optimization technologies with Talos's expertise in subsurface characterization and engineering.
14 February 2022
Core Laboratories Carbon Capture and Sequestration Consortium
Core Lab is pleased to announce the launch of a joint-industry Carbon Capture and Sequestration Consortium to analyze technical risks and challenges associated with subsurface carbon sequestration. As the number of carbon capture and sequestration evaluation. The CCS Consortium, in collaboration with Dr. Birol Dindoruk of the University of Houston, has been formed to support global energy transition and decarbonization efforts.
