Carbon capture and storage
Long-term integrity is important for carbon-capture-and-storage or sequestration projects:
- Process fluids with high carbon dioxide concentrations must be handled.
- Capture and transport facilities must be reliable and maintain high availability at minimum cost over their lives.
- The selection of cost-effective materials is especially critical for the large-scale facilities needed for carbon dioxide capture from power production, incinerators, refineries, cement manufacture and metallurgical plants.
- Injection wells need to be leak free and contain the carbon dioxide long after the end of their injection lives.
- Monitoring of well performance is also critical to ensure that effective storage is maintained.
- Operational well integrity management is critical for the safe handling and long-term storage of carbon dioxide.
Our clients value our long-term record for the design of high-integrity process facilities, pipelines and wells. We have advised several European clients on design, materials selection and material specifications for
- Carbon capture systems for gas and coal power plants using different combustion processes
- Transport pipelines for carbon dioxide in high-pressure gas and supercritical states
- Carbon dioxide injection wells requiring ultra-high integrity throughout their operational life cycle, shut-in, suspension and long-term abandonment.
