STEMM-CCS Open Science Meeting presentations

A selection of presentations from the STEMM-CCS Open Science Meeting held in February 2020 meeting in Bergen:

Session 1. Technological and Engineering challenges

• Enabling a CO₂ release experiment in the North Sea – Kevin Saw, National Oceanography Centre
• An Overview of the Design, Build and Testing of the CO₂ Injection Rig – Allan Spencer, Cellula Robotics
• Shallow subsurface coring with a robotic seafloor drill – Oliver Peppe, British Geological Society
• Development and deployment of a suite of autonomous in situ carbonate sensors for the STEMM-CCS gas release experiment – Samuel Monk, National Oceanography Centre
• pH optodes for CO₂ leakage detection – Sergey Borisov, TU Graz

Session 3: Understanding complexity

• What is sufficient for a “baseline” – Jerry Blackford, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
• Water column environmental baseline assessment for offshore CCS sites: analysis of field data from the Goldeneye storage complex – Mario Eposito, GEOMAR
• The pH distribution in and around a CO₂ vent – Dirk der Beer, Max Planck Institute, Bremen
• Underground CO₂ storage assurance – The assessment of onshore geological analogues of fluid-escape systems – Panoche Hills, California – Ben Callow, University of Southampton
• Elastic and hydromechanical properties of fractured sandstone reservoirs during and after CO₂ storage – Ismael Falcon Suarez, National Oceanography Centre

Session 6: Detection, Quantification & Qualification

• Modelling of leakage scenarios to determine impact and anomaly criteria for detection – Marius Dewar, Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Session 9: Synthesis – the end products

• Beyond STEMM-CCS: Implications for offshore CCS and marine CO₂ monitoring – Chris Pearce, National Oceanography Centre
• The STEMM-CCS online monitoring and decision support tool – Anna Lichtschlag, National Oceanography Centre