Richard Baker

Risk Assessment & Verification For Carbon Capture Projects Course

Richard Baker

This course offers in-depth training on Risk Assessment and Monitoring, Measurement, and Verification (MMV) for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects. It covers practical, field case study-based insights focusing on operational risk factors including geomechanics, seismicity, and legacy wellbores. The course emphasizes identifying and minimizing risks associated with CO₂ injection, particularly vertical leakage pathways like faults and fractures. Participants will also explore workflows for risk analysis and learn to balance project cost and safety effectively. The content caters to various expertise levels and is essential considering the anticipated growth in CCS projects worldwide.Read more...

Who Should Take This Course
• Reservoir engineers
• Business and project managers
• Geologists and development planners
• Clean energy and risk professionals

What You Will Learn
• Risk identification in CO₂ sequestration
• Managing geomechanical and seismic risks
• Workflow for risk analysis across project stages
• Design of Monitoring, Measurement, Verification plans

Why This Course Works
• Optimize MMV to balance safety and cost
• Ensure 99% CO₂ retention over 1,000 years
• Gain practical knowledge from real field cases
• Minimize leakage risk from faults and wellbores

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Course contents

Chapter 1 – Introduction To CO₂ Capture

  • 01-01 - Introduction (11 min.) Sample Lesson
  • 01-02 - General Workflow (21 min.)
  • 01-03 - Review of Trapping Mechanisms (14 min.)
  • 01-04 - Review of Site Selection (10 min.)
  • 01-05 - Fluid Properties/Phase Behavior of CO₂ (15 min.)
  • 01-06 - CO₂ Sequestration in Depleted Reservoirs (12 min.)

Chapter 2 - Evaluating Risk

  • 02-01 - International Field Cases in CCUS; Operating Conditions (10 min.)
  • 02-02 - Learnings From Field Cases (20 min.)
  • 02-03 - Project Overview: Sleipner & Quest (14 min.)
  • 02-04 - Project Overview: In Salah (9 min.)
  • 02-05 - Project Overview: Snovit (9 min.)
  • 02-06 - Project Overview: Aquistore (11 min.)
  • 02-07 - Uncertainty In Volumetrics (15 min.)
  • 02-08 - Quest Project: Scale & Material Balance (19 min.)

Chapter 3 - Monitoring lnjectivity

  • 03-01 - CO₂ Storage In Depleted Reservoirs (13 min.)
  • 03-02 - CO₂ Phase Behavior Impacts (7 min.)
  • 03-03 - Storage Assessments (11 min.)
  • 03-04 - Risk Analysis 1 (26 min.)

Chapter 4 - Visualization & Criticality

  • 04-01 - What is the Objective/Visual Analysis of Risk Analysis (16 min.)
  • 04-02 - Injectivity (6 min.)
  • 04-03 - Analysis Of Injection Rates & Pressures: Quest Project (Part 1) (28 min.)
  • 04-04 - Analysis of Injection Rates and Pressures: Quest Project (Part 2) (15 min.)

Chapter 5 - Injectivity

  • 05-01 - Theory & Calculations (15 min.)
  • 05-02 - Risk Analysis 2: Subsurface Risk (15 min.)

Chapter 6 - Geomechanical Considerations

  • 06-01 - Faults (19 min.)
  • 06-02 - The World Stress Map (18 min.)

Chapter 7 - Risk Assessments

  • 07-01 - Risk Factors (24 min.)
  • 07-02 - Risk Matrices (15 min.)
  • 07-03 - Plume Migration (7 min.)

Chapter 8 - Measurement, Monitoring & Verification (MMV)

  • 08-01 - Pairing MMV Tools To Risk Analysis (11 min.)
  • 08-02 - Workflow For Risk Analysis (10 min.)

Chapter 9 - MMV + Surveillance

  • 09-01 - Integrating MMV + Surveillance (17 min.)
  • 09-02 - MMV Tools & Techniques (31 min.)

Chapter 10 - Cost/Benefit Analysis On Risk

  • 10-01 - Mapping Risk Matrices, Criticality & Costs (18 min.)

Chapter 11 - Monitoring & Verification For CCS/CCUS

  • 11-01 - Prioritization Of Techniques (13 min.)
  • 11-02 - Conclusion & Summary (24 min.) Quiz