Offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions that support wells, platform projects, long-term CO2 management, decarbonisation and repurposing
Overview
The energy transition is placing hydrogen centre-stage, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) is critical for a successful blue hydrogen supply chain (and for other carbon-generating industries).
There are several ways to approach offshore carbon capture and storage projects. From mature and depleted reservoirs, to brand new storage locations – what’s common is that there are a number of critical engineering considerations and competencies required in successfully storing CO2 in subsurface formations.
At Aquaterra Energy we’re ready with the expertise and equipment to support you with the most efficient approach to your offshore carbon capture and storage project. To learn more about CCS developments and platform repurposing, read our exciting press release detailing our contract with INEOS.
Features
Our portfolio of equipment and intelligently engineered solutions already helps oil and gas operators globally accelerate time to first oil, reduce rig time and drive cost efficiencies for well intervention and workover projects. This knowledge and expertise can also be applied to offshore carbon capture and storage projects too.
Our work across riser systems, riser analysis and efficient well initiation is underpinned by our deep engineering expertise – ensuring that whatever solution we design, develop, and install meets the needs of each client and each application.
We offer a range of integrated system packages and enhanced engineering strategies to bolster offshore carbon capture and storage operations, save rig time and accelerate the storage of CO2.
Key to carbon storage is the integrity of the formation/reservoir that the CO2 will be stored within. Whilst legacy oil and gas fields are considered good carbon storage locations, given the proven formation properties and existing pipeline and platform infrastructure, a key risk and liability is the remaining suspended, or abandoned legacy wells.
These legacy wells may have been abandoned correctly at the end of the field’s life, but barrier selection and testing may reveal that a reservoir might not be suitable for underground CO2 storage applications. A field that would otherwise be the perfect carbon storage location could be discounted due to CO2 integrity concerns, or even need a costly relief or intersection well drilled to correctly plug and abandon the legacy well and ensure its secure.
At Aquaterra Energy our field-proven well re-entry and tieback engineering products and services can help carbon capture and storage projects eliminate issues and realise their potential.
If you’re looking at using a platform to re-inject CO2 into an offshore storage location, you may be presented with the choice of using an existing platform that is already in a suitable location or designing and installing a new platform.
Our unrivalled life of field and brownfield modification experience means we’re perfectly placed to support in upgrading existing infrastructure to store CO2 in depleted reserves. From compressor considerations to wellheads and pipe engineering, our team of platform engineers can support with all platform simplification and modification requirements.
If your project requires a new platform installation, our Sea Swift offshore platform for CCS developments is the ideal shallow water solution. Its modular design minimises build and implementation times, reduces capex and overall project emissions. Sea Swift can be adapted for a range of field development requirements, supporting anything from one well, up to 10 wells.
We can offer a complete EPCI project solution from conductor and riser analysis through to design, fabrication, project management and offshore installation. Learn more about one of our most recent injection projects.
CO2 leak detection and response planning are an essential element in the development and long-term storage of any project, reducing environmental risk and providing reassurance of asset integrity.
We’ve developed a complete CO2 monitoring platform solution for offshore carbon capture and storage projects that uses field-proven CSS technology to provide you with the confidence that your storage sites are performing as expected, against baseline engineering and seismic data, during and post CO2 injection.
This, combined with our patent pending approach to long-term site integrity, will provide a further measure of security by alerting engineers to any actual CO2 leaks into the water column long during and after the injection process has been completed. Curious about the differences onshore and offshore? Listen to our CCS podcast where we discuss key differentiations with Innovation Director, Ben Cannell. Get in touch with our specialist team to learn more.
Learn more about our offshore carbon capture and CO2 monitoring platforms as well as measurement, verification, and response solutions to support capture, storage developments and net zero targets.
Complete seabed-to-surface packages with a proven track record of safe, efficient, and reliable performance internationally, from the planning phases right through to offshore implementation.
We apply our in-house resources, specialist skills and frontline experience to design, fabricate and install our surface riser systems for deployment worldwide.
We’re are market leaders in jack-up high-pressure riser analysis, through our significant specific experience in designing, managing and running high pressure risers from jack-up rigs.
A low investment, rapid turnaround option to provide a review of proposed operational decisions before they are fixed in place and important capital is committed.
A flexible offshore platform solution that provides modular designs and rapid returns for oil and gas, CCS, offshore wind, and offshore green hydrogen developments. Field tested and trusted.
We’re market leaders in tieback analysis, having completed over 400 separate projects for leading operators across the world, with a key focus on pre-planning.
We're market leaders in tieback engineering, having completed over 400 separate projects for leading operators across the world to reduce rig time and risk.
A universal and versatile tool for tiebacks on multiple wellhead configurations, providing significant CAPEX savings by removing the need for centralisers on platform wells.
Our riser analysis team are market leaders in platform drilled conductor analysis, having completed over 90 separate projects for leading operators around the world.
Our Aquascope subsea camera systems are essential for any drilling project with a requirement to obtain real-time and high-quality subsea images, operating to a maximum depth of 1000 metres.
Disposable camera systems, enabling real-time subsea visual feedback to the installation operator during difficult or unsupported subsea installation operations.
