CCS /CCUS Advanced Technology Inside Out Course

General Introduction of CCS/CCUS

• The context of worldwide CCS/CCUS
• The current status of worldwide CCS/CCUS activities
• The brief history of acid gas storage and implications to CCS/CCUS
• Introduction of CCS/CCUS dynamics in the next 5 to 10 years
• Introduction of the key CCS projects
• SPE CO2 Storage Resource Management System and application to Illinois Basin
• Summary of the key projects - best practices and key lessons learned

Subsurface Characterization of CCS/CCUS

• Introduction to CCS regulations and guidelines
• Introduction to CO2 storage mechanisms  and containment
• Workflow for CCS site screening
• Workflow and case studies for subsurface characterization

Digital Twin Modeling of Carbon Capture/Compression Operations

• Introduction of CCS surface facilities
• Carbon capture operations modeling  and case studies
• CO2 ship transportation modeling and case studies 
• CO2 compression operations modeling and case studies

Flow Assurance of CO2 Pipeline Transportation and Injection

• Introduction of the supercritical state of CO2
• Flow assurance simulation of pipeline transportation and case studies
• Flow assurance simulation for injection wells and case studies
• Digital twin of CO2 injection system and case studies

CCS/CCUS Monitoring System

• Key considerations of CCS Monitoring 
• Introduction of CCS monitoring technology
• CCS monitoring design
• CCS monitoring case studies

Reservoir Simulation of CCS/CCUS (I)

• Introduction of CO2 storage and related physics
• CO2 storage modeling options and input data requirements
• Simulation of injection in a saline aquifer (CO2STORE)
• Simulation of injection in a gas reservoir with aquifers (GASWAT)

Reservoir Simulation of CCS/CCUS (II)

• Simulation of injection in an oil-depleted reservoir or for EOR  (CO2SOL)
• INTERSECT Capabilities for CO2 storage
• Surface and subsurface integrated modeling
• Case study of lifecycle CO2 reservoir simulation

CO2 Injector Well Design

• Considerations of CO2 injector well design
• Tubing and casing design
• Completion design
• Well integrity qualification
• Considerations of drilling operations
• Case studies on CCS drilling design and operations

Fundamentals of Reservoir Geomechanics

• Importance of reservoir geomechanics to CCS
• Review of key geomechanics concepts
• Review of key input data for 1D/3D geomechanical  modeling
• Experimental rock mechanics for reservoir geomechanics studies

CCS Coupled Geomechanical Simulation and Case Studies

• 3D Geomechanical Modeling and coupled simulation workflow
• Geomechanical modeling & coupled simulation with Petrel Geomechanics 
• Worldwide CCS geomechanics case studies
• Injection induced seismicity and implication to CCS