The consortium

The MuPSI project involves 11 partners from academia and industry across 4 European countries and the USA.

MuPSI research partners bring complementary expertise in geosciences, geophysics, geomechanics, reservoir engineering, and applied mathematics that are perfectly aligned to achieve the project’s objectives. The international and inter-sectoral MuPSI consortium increases the expected impacts to enable CCS to fulfill its expected role in the energy transition.

Industry partners Storegga, Equinor, Norske Shell, and EBN are companies with robust CCS strategies and active roles in development and operations of industrial CO₂ storage projects. Industry involvement as direct end users of MuPSI generated knowledge, tools, and case study learnings reinforces the economic and technological relevance of MuPSI results and increases the capacity of industry experts to address scale-up challenges related to projects under appraisal and development in the coming 5-10 years.

NORCE

NORCE is the project coordinator (Sarah Gasda is the Project Manager) and leads WP4 and WP6. NORCE has expertise in applied mathematics, computational methods, reservoir physics and open-source reservoir simulation for understanding pressure interference at regional-scale. NORCE will lead the Horda platform case study.

Heriot-Watt University

HWU is the leader of WP2 and brings extensive expertise in fault and caprock integrity and will apply advanced experimental and modeling techniques to characterize hydromechanical, chemical and mechanical and thermal properties of faulted and fractured reservoir rocks.

Technische Universiteit Delft

TUD is the leader of WP5 and brings extensive expertise in reservoir and fault characterization, fast screening workflows, advanced fault simulators, uncertainty quantification, economics, and social science.

University of Bergen

UoB is the leader of WP3 and brins Long-time experience with designing of robust and efficient solvers for complex, possible nonlinear problems and with mathematical modelling.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

LBNL leads WP1 and brins extensive expertise in fault physics, coupled multiphase flow and hydromechanical modeling and simulation, seismic characterization, and geophysical monitoring for CO₂ storage.

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

CSIC brings long-term expertise on hydrogeology, geomechanics and computational methods, with application to carbon geological storage.

Pale Blue Dot Energy Ltd - Storegga Ltd

Storegga will lead the East Mey case study (WP4) including reservoir modeling and upscaling, dynamic modeling, testing of developed codes, engage with researchers in designing and executing simulation studies, provide field experience.

Equinor Energy AS

Equinor is one of the largest CCS operators worldwide and has ambitions to develop further storage licences on the Norwegian continental shelf. Equinor will contribute with complementary numerical simulations and laboratory measurements using in-house facilities.

A/S Norske Shell

Shell has been a pioneer in developing and applying CCS technology, including the Northern Lights joint venture partnership, and are exploring other areas to store carbon on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Shell will contribute with coupled stress and rock mechanics expertise and testing concepts with Shell in-house tools.

EBN

EBN is actively involved in the development of carbon storage facilities below the sea bed of the Dutch part of the North Sea. EBN is a will contribute technical insights to relevant WPs.

TRACS International Ltd

TRACS brings thirty years of expertise in developing and delivering tailored training materials for international audiences with diverse backgrounds, having trained over 50,000 experts in geology, engineering, economics, and law in over 45 countries. TRACS contributes to WP5.

Funding agencies

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.