MuPSI research activities will support the significant scale up of CCS from single standalone projects to large multi-site storage hubs of gigatonne scale. Project results will improve the ability to assess and manage the elevated fault-related geomechanical risk stemming from pressure interference between multiple projects at regional scale. The project is divided into five work packages (WP).
Research will focus on developing and testing a new toolbox of efficient and user-friendly simulation models, software solutions, and workflows that integrate and bridge across fault-, project-, and region-scales and have been validated and demonstrated on real-world case studies and data. The project will also prepare the sustainable transfer of scientific knowledge and operational outcomes arising from the use cases considered and their extensive use for current and future gigatonne-scale storage clusters, through capacity building, stakeholder engagement, and dissemination actions.
WP1 will develop a quick screening workflow to support stand-alone high-level evaluation of regional-scale geomechanical risk caused by multiple simultaneous storage projects and to enable further targeted investigation by detailed modeling workflows.
WP2 will improve fault-scale models of pressure-induced fault activation and leakage to enable fault-specific risk profiling and more efficient regional-scale simulation of sub-scale geomechanical processes in high-level screening workflows.
WP3 will develop new open-access software solutions to provide operators of projects with a secure way to assess regional pressure-stress dynamics in project-scale de-risking workflows and to support cross-site collaboration with competitors.
WP 4 will perform validation and demonstration of WP 1-3 results on real-world case studies and data in the North Sea and gain provide insight into regional geomechanical impacts of scale-up and feasible mitigation strategies.
WP5 will establish a Community of Practice to prepare the sustainable transfer of scientific knowledge and operational outcomes arising from the use cases considered and their extensive use for current and future gigatonne-scale storage clusters, through capacity building, stakeholder engagement and dissemination actions.
WP6 ensures effective project coordination and reporting, supports formative evaluation through feedback exchange with CETP partners, and actively contributes to the CETP Knowledge Community via living documents, working group meetings, and joint dissemination activities.
The MuPSI project (Multiscale Pressure-Stress Impacts on fault integrity for multi-site regional CO2 storage) is awarded through the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CET-P) project number CETP-FP-2023-00298, with funding provided by the RCN Research Council of Norway, Scottish Enterprise, NWO Dutch Research Council, AEI-Agencia Estatal de Investigación, and US DoE, with contributions from Storegga Ltd, Equinor ASA, Norske Shell AS, and EBN Capital BV.
