Background to the Study

The 3rd International Workshop on Offshore Geologic CO₂ Storage. This workshop took place on 3-4 May 2018, organised by the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) in collaboration with IEAGHG and others, and hosted by the Research Council of Norway in Oslo, with support from SANEDI and CSLF. Over 60 attendees from 8 countries participated.

This workshop came about to address a recommendation from the CSLF on offshore CCS. This 3^rd International Workshop on Offshore CCS took place on 3-4 May, organised by the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) in collaboration with IEAGHG and others, and hosted by the Research Council of Norway in Oslo, with support from SANEDI and CSLF.

The aim of the workshop series is to facilitate sharing of knowledge and experiences among those who are doing offshore storage and those who are interested, and to facilitate international collaboration on projects.  Over 60 attendees from 8 countries participated in this 3^rd workshop.

The agenda included: How to learn from learnings?; Value Chains for Offshore; Infrastructure re-use; Monitoring offshore CO2 storage/EOR; Offshore CO2 storage resource assessment; Project updates; Standards and Regulatory Frameworks; and Brainstorming towards an international collaborative project.

Key Recommendations

• Explore models for international collaboration on projects.
• An ACT-type model is good for R&D (US is joining), so an ACT for projects is recommended.
• Consider how to build knowledge sharing from hands-on operational projects, including an international collaboration on a project.
• Provide a roadmap to existing information sources [IEAGHG will be addressing this].
• Joint funding between countries has started and should continue.
• Survey which developing countries would be attracted to offshore storage.
• Get developing country representatives to these meetings. Identify key persons and funding sources.
• More advocacy is needed to funders on CCS – future Nationally Determined Contributions will need CCS, so how can we make countries aware of their potential? The research community is ready to inform.
• Complimentary monitoring to be built into MVA plans - different monitoring methods informing each other, including methods for determining trigger points.

The presentations are available at http://www.beg.utexas.edu/gccc/research/goi .

Many thanks to the Research Council of Norway for hosting and to them and Statoil and the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for sponsoring.