Inauguration of the Ketzin Facilities
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Issue Nº 16 The Newsletter of the ENeRG Network December 2007 Promoting R&D capability in the service of European Industry Inauguration of the Ketzin Facilities 13 June 2007 saw the official After the international start of CO2 underground seminar, the participants were storage at Ketzin (State of transferred by bus to the Ketzin Brandenburg, Germany). In site where a lunch was served, support of the first CO2 onshore and afterwards the official act of pilot aquifer storage in Europe, inauguration began. Statements the Zero Emission Fossil Fuel were made by different political Power Plants Technology representatives, including a Platform (ZEP) organised a keynote speech by Mr Andris scientific workshop, promoting Piebalgs who spoke about the CO2SINK Project results organizers, GFZ and ZEP, on different types of storage. Commission goal of launching and CO2 storage as a viable their status and future activities. These are the necessary a CCS Directive by the end of option for mitigation of Climate This introduced the scientific steps towards commercial Change. presentations, chaired by applications of CCS in Europe Prof Niels Peter Christensen. as well as globally. The CO2SINK Project aims to Presentations were arranged in test CO2 geological storage two sessions: CCS Projects and The second session consisted in situ. After an assessment CO2 storage. of presentations about of CO2 storage options in the ongoing projects. Four area the most adequate site for The first session focused on major CCS projects were CO2 storage was chosen in a the future plans of companies reviewed, Otway Basin in saline aquifer 700 m below the interested in developing Australia, In-Salah Project town of Ketzin in the vicinity of CCS as a part of their in Algeria, Sleipner Project Berlin. The CO2 will be stored strategy for CO2 mitigation. in the Norwegian North in sandstones of the Stuttgart Presentations were made by Sea and Ketzin Project in Formation and sealed by clay representatives from Vattenfall, Germany. Although there are and gypsum cap rocks above. Shell, RWE and E.ON. All evident similarities, the four 60 000 tons of CO2 will be representatives pointed to CCS presentations showed the wide injected and stored at Ketzin as a fundamental part of their range of storage possibilities over the next two years. strategies, expressing interest that can be found in the in developing demonstration subsurface and how different Fig. 2: Drilling rig at Ketzin The CO2 will be monitored projects, testing different conditions are caused by many using both surface and capture technologies and variable factors. 2007. After these statements, underground technologies, CO2SINK Project participants using both cores and presented a technical geophysical techniques. These explanation of the Ketzin innovative measures will form storage project. the basis for new models to help evaluate the fate of the Finally, participants were injected CO2, risks and potential directed to the site of CO2 tanks remediation actions. where the official inauguration was carried out by Mr Andris The inauguration of the site Piebalgs. After the official on June 13th took place in activities were completed, the two stages. Starting with participants were allowed to a celebration at the GFZ inspect the site and take a look headquarters at Potsdam, at the project facilities, injection and after a warm welcome by and monitoring boreholes, CO2 Prof Reinhard Hüttl and tanks and see what on-shore Prof Kurt Häge, an international CO2 injection project looks like. seminar was opened by political representatives of the The inauguration was a European Commission, State great success with 300–400 of Brandenburg and German participants and very high Research Centres. quality of the presentations. The Mr Andris Piebalgs, EU Energy majority of the most important Commissioner, emphasised the power companies and oil & gas importance of test sites of CO2 industries were represented storage in onshore Europe and, and all expressed a great therefore, indicated CO2SINK interest in the developments will be a fundamental project of CO2SINK Project and other building experience for the activities related to CCS in the future of CO2 storage. near future. The opening was followed Roberto Martínez & Niels Peter Christensen by presentations by the co- Fig. 1: CO2 storage tanks Carbon Dioxide Storage Opportunities in EU New Member States & Candidate Countries The first estimations of CO2 GESTCO project; Million Tonnes (Mt). Using the point for more objective storage opportunities in • To update European CO2 estimated storage capacities, (site specific) and precise Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Capture and Storage GIS. the region has a potential investigations and calculations Croatia, Hungary, Poland, The storage capacity to store its CO2 emissions in follow-up projects. A major Romania, Slovenia and assessment was built on the for an average of 28 years. outcome of this work was, that Slovakia were carried out in methodology developed for 8 Looking at this figure as a total the topic of CCS was opened 2004–2006. The work was part European countries in the EU- may present the picture that to expert and public discussion of the CASTOR project (CO2 FP5 GESTCO research project. the CO2 storage options are in EU New Member States and from Capture to Storage) that The work aimed to unify, refine limited. If the storage capacity Candidate Countries. was partially funded by the and fill data gaps to secure is considered on the basis of EC under the 6th Framework comparable data throughout individual capture and storage The activities started in Programme. This work was part Europe. projects there are a range CASTOR WP 1.2 continue of Workpackage 1.2 “Geological of opportunities to capture in several follow-up projects, storage options for CO2 According to the first estimates and store the emissions for especially in EU GeoCapacity, reduction strategy”. The activity made within CASTOR, the the largest point sources a FP6 R&D project entitled was lead by Geological Survey overall CO2 storage capacity for a number of years, and “Assessing European Capacity of Denmark and Greenland in the countries in question so CCS has the potential for Geological Storage of (GEUS). The main goals of the is more than 17 Giga (billion) to make large reduction Carbon Dioxide” (introduced project were: tonnes. More detailed results in total CO2 emissions of in GEO ENeRGY No 12/2005) • To identify and collate new are presented in Table. 1. individual countries. The as well as in several national information from Eastern Annual CO2 emissions from numbers presented should be and bilateral project funded by Europe and countries not big stationary point sources considered as the first rough national governments. The path covered by the former in these states are ca. 540 estimates and as a starting breaking work within CASTOR was, however, really the first Country CO2 storage capacities (Mt) CO2 emissions Duration step towards CCS awareness in aquifers hydrocarbon coal fields point sources (years) this region. fields (Mt) Bulgaria 821 3.5 0 41 15.5 Ludo Kucharic, Vit Hladik & Niels Peter Christensen Croatia 351 148.5 0 6 64 Czech Republic 2863 32.6 294 97 25.3 Hungary 5000 408 240 28 17.8 Poland 3752 572 470 205 18 Romania 3000 2500 0 120 35.3 Slovakia 1349 137 0 40 28.6 Slovenia 147 2.2 0 7 16.4 Tab. 1: Estimated CO2 storage capacities in individual countries ENeRG Student Prizes Two ENeRG Student Prizes for and Patrick Corbett. The The EAGE/SPE EUROPEC the best presentations in the presentation was held on 12 2008 Conference in Rome field of geo-energy applications June 2007 during the Student has been selected for the next were first announced in 2006 Reception of the EAGE/SPE competition. Prizes will be based on presentations at EUROPEC 2007 Conference in awarded for the Best Student the EAGE/SPE EUROPEC London (see Fig. 3). Paper and the Best Student conference in Vienna. The first Poster. The ENeRG Steering prizewinners were Francois In addition, the London Committee will select the Schaub (Ecole des Mines de conference saw the judging of prizewinners on the basis of Paris) in category “The best the second round of ENeRG the evaluations carried out by paper” and Milana Ayzenberg Student Prizes; the results will the EAGE for the Best Paper (Norwegian University of be announced later this year. and Best Poster Awards. The Science and Technology) for awards will be given to the “The best poster”. The ENeRG Steering primary authors of the best Committee wishes to announce Fig. 3: Milana Ayzenberg and contributions from a student in The winners were awarded the third ENeRG Student Prize Francois Schaub – the first each category in a geo-energy the prizes and certificates competition worth 1000 Euro. ENeRG Student Prize winners related field. by the ENeRG president The competition will be judged at the EAGE Student Reception Alla Shogenova Alla Shogenova and ENeRG on research results in one of in London members Endre Hegedüs the many fields of geo-energy. ENeRG President 2007 ENeRG – European Network for Research in Geo-Energy ENeRG president ENeRG president for 2007 is Dr. Alla Shogenova from Institute of Geology ENeRG Newsletter – GEO ENeRGY at Talinn University of Technology, Estonia. Contact: [email protected] The Newsletter is published by Czech Geological Survey (CGS), Prague, Czech Republic ENeRG secretariat is run by Dionyz Stur State Geological Institute, Editor: Dr. Vít Hladík <[email protected]> Bratislava, Slovakia. Contact person: Dr. Julia