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February 06, 2015

DOE to Partner with Shell to Test Advanced Monitoring Tech at Quest

By Abby Harvey

Abby L. Harvey
GHG Monitor
2/6/2015

The Department of Energy and Shell Canada announced this week an agreement to test advanced monitoring, verification and accounting (MVA) technology at Shell’s Quest carbon capture and storage project in Alberta, Canada. Technology developed by DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will be tested alongside Shell’s own MVA technology, already installed at the project’s underground storage site, a saline aquifer. According to a DOE press release, the Department “is leveraging a federal investment of approximately $3 million in existing and ongoing projects in their research and development program by proposing roughly $500,000 for this collaborative effort.” Details of the collaboration are expected to be finalized early this year, the release says.

The agreement has been in the works for several months, Tim Wiwchar, Shell Quest Manager, said during a project update at the Global CCS Institute’s Americas Forum this week. “Over the last couple months there’s been a process where we’ve looked at some of the technologies that the U.S. DOE is advancing and our subsurface folks are in the process of narrowing it down and we’re actually quite optimistic,” he said.

The new technology being field tested will be additional to the MVA system already in place at the Quest storage site. Wiwchar explained that the subsurface is the portion of the project causing big concern to stakeholders in Alberta. “So although we have our MMV program certified by Det Norske Veritas, it goes through a very scrutinous process with the Alberta energy regulator, we’re still looking for those additional measures that we can take to give the regulator and our stakeholders, our neighbors, our farmers where we’re working the confidence that we know where that CO2 is and that it’s behaving like we expect it too. So the technologies that we’re looking at all help us and they’re in the range from looking deep down into the rock to also monitoring what’s happening in the groundwater and atmosphere as well,” Wiwchar said.

 

 

 

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