France (2011-2012) - Geogreen is the project coordinator for this effort to develop a carbon management plan supported by a consortium of companies and public entities active in the industrial sectors around the Port of Marseille. Geogreen will perform an emissions source clustering and centralized emissions treatment (pooling) scenario development, the optimization of the emissions/CO2 collection systems and transport network, design and carbon and energy footprint analysis of the overall CO2 capture, transport and the eventual export scenarios to North Africa for EOR, CO2 valorization options around Marseille - including CO2 bio-remediation via micro-algae cultivation.
PROJECT PARTNERS
France, Netherlands, and the North Sea (2010-2012) - The EU Funded COCATE R&D project focuses on emission management and transport. The aim of the study is to assess the potential for flue gas or other fluid pooling so as to devise common emission collection systems for industries within the area around Le Havre and to design a CO2 export system for transporting the emissions to the Rotterdam hub, from where they will be sent to an eventual storage location in the North Sea. For both the local CO2/emissions transport/collection networks and the cross-border CO2 export systems, a range of technical options are proposed and assessed from risk, economic, and network management standpoints. Geogreen is the leader of the economic work package and is deeply involved in the design tasks. Geogreen's tasks involved the emissions source clustering and collective emissions treatment (pooling) scenario development, optimization of the emissions/CO2 collection systems and transport network as well as the economic analysis and cost optimization of the overall CO2 capture, transport and the eventual export scenarios to Rotterdam.
France (2009-2011) - Geogreen worked with BRGM and the University of Orleans to assess the retrofit of a sugar beet-based biofuel refinery in central France with CCS. For the project Geogreen performed a basic onshore deep saline formation storage feasibility study, the basic design for CO2 transport options, economic analysis of the Bio-CCS chain, and carbon and energy footprint analyses.
Germany and the North Sea (2008) - Geogreen was contracted to perform a screening assessment on offshore deep saline formations and depleted Oil Fields/gasfields for CO2 storage. This included a CO2 storage capacity assessment, risk assessment, basic design of the potential CO2 transport and storage project components, economic analysis, and the carbon and energy footprint analyses for the overall project.
France and the North Sea (2008-2009) - Geogreen performed a capture options assessment and screened onshore and offshore geological formations for CO2 storage suitability for the development authority of Le Havre port. The work included the review of capture technology options, emissions source clustering and centralized emissions treatment (pooling) scenario development, the screening of onshore and offshore saline formations for CO2 storage suitability and capacity, and the review of offshore oil and gas fields for potential storage and/or CO2-EOR options.
France (2008-2010) - Geogreen served as the owner's engineers for the CO2 transport and storage portions of the project while the possibility of a CCS pilot was being investigated by Veolia. In that context Geogreen performed an onshore storage suitability screening, 3D geological modeling, hydrodynamic CO2 injection simulations, delineation of the storage complex, risk analysis, the design of the MMV (measurement, monitoring, and verification) and safety programs, design of the well architecture (including the acoustic/well logs), drilling program definition, supervision of seismic processing, seismic interpretation, carbon and energy footprint analyses for the CO2 transport-storage chain, administrative engineering, and design of the water production tests.