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15 - General Engineering
Heriot-Watt University (joint submission with University of Edinburgh)
Turning exploration risk into a carbon storage opportunity in the UK Southern North Sea
The occurrence of two CO2-gas discoveries in the Southern North Sea provide a robust, unifying and testable structural model through which to assess carbon sequestration traps and design the geo-engineering thereof. The fact that CO2 was evidently sealed over geological time-scales shows the effectiveness of the Zechstein Supergroup evaporite canopy in retaining CO2. The results are the first proof of the concept that traps containing Leman Sandstone Formation reservoirs have a CO2 storage potential, thus opening up the possibility for carbon sequestration in the basin. The paper formed the basis of Tullow Oil’s successful reapplication for the license in 2012.
