SENSE Project

Management information

Title: SENSE - Assuring integrity of CO2 storage sites through ground surface monitoring

Code: 2939

Initial date: 1 de September de 2019

Ending date: 31 de December de 2022

E-mail: bahman.bohloli@ngi.no

Project web page: https://www.sense-act.eu/

Project description

Its primary objective is to demonstrate reliable, cost efficient CO2 storage monitoring using ground surface deformation detection combined with geomechanical modelling and inversion to provide information on pressure distribution and hydraulic behaviour of storage sites.

The goal of the SENSE project is to demonstrate how ground surface movement can be used as an integral part of the monitoring program to effectively verify safe storage of CO2 underground. The proposed research activities are focused towards injection demonstration sites both onshore and offshore and includes:

1. demonstration of continuous monitoring of surface deformation and subsurface pressure distribution using satellite data, inclinometers, water pressure sensors, fiber optics and seafloor geodesy,

2. develop advanced quantitative characterization of critical geomechanical and hydraulic parameters as well as automatization routine for data interpretation

3. optimization of sampling arrays to provide cost-effective monitoring and long-term safety.

Targets

Integration, optimization and automatization of existing technologies together with new fiber optic solutions for offshore surface movement detection has the potential for cost efficient and accurate monitoring. Hence, the SENSE project answers directly to the Priority Research Directions (PRDs) for CO2 storage, highlighted by Mission Innovation CCUS (2017), particularly: “Developing smart convergence monitoring to demonstrate containment and enable storage site closure” and “Realizing smart monitoring to assess anomalies and provide assurance.”