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DECARBONIZATION CARBON CAPTURE & STORAGE

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SLB and Microsoft have partnered with Northern Lights on a data platform that will serve as the digital infrastructure for the Northern Lights project.

DIGITALIZATION IS

DRAWING CCS A NEW

LEARNING CURVE

Digital solutions are accelerating the progress required to ensure CCS earns its place in climate change mitigation history.

By Wendy Laursen arbon capture has been around since the 90s, “This is what I think of as action science: experimental but the behavior of CO2 in pipelines is still physics to deliver commercial software is happening on the not that well understood. A lack of suitable fy,” says Jan Gerhard Norstrøm, Managing Director of the multiphase fow assurance models has meant Ledafow Joint Venture at Kongsberg Digital. Simulation is that past CCS projects have had to apply key to de-risking expensive infrastructure. “The big decisions

C large, costly safety margins to transport and injection sys- and cost savings happen on the drawing board,” he says. If tems. Between 2020 and 2022, the CO2FACT project you simulate before you build, you could save millions.

addressed the shortfalls, and along with the development Gary LeMaire, Senior Director, CCUS at Worley, says of the LedaFlow simulator, the knowledge gaps are being project data harvesting under a ‘design one, build many’ closed. LedaFlow will come with an improved module for strategy can help reduce total installed cost by >20%. It can pure CO2 in the spring of 2024. A module for CO2 with also accelerate delivery schedules, because it increases rep- impurities will follow shortly afterwards. lication and re-use of the entire value chain of project data 32 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM