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Image courtesy of Kongsberg Digital

Image courtesy of Worley "Project data harvesting under a ‘design "Experimental physics to one, build many’ strategy will see deliver commercial software is increasing levels of replication and re-use happening on the fly." of the entire value chain of project data." – Jan Gerhard Norstrøm, – Gary LeMaire,

Managing Director of the Ledaflow Senior Director, CCUS at Worley

Joint Venture at Kongsberg Digital from engineering design through procurement, fabrication, storage site selection and the ongoing modeling of stored construction and commissioning. It also enables closer CO2, it can also integrate with other digital technologies partnerships to be formed between supply chain partners. to provide end-to-end solutions for CCS.

Partnership deals are booming. In 2023, Carbon Clean This value-chain view will be critical. The CO2 being se- signed an agreement with Samsung Engineering to explore questered by CCS projects such as Northern Lights is not onboard carbon capture opportunities for its CycloneCC being sold as such, but it will require end-to-end tracking, technology and another for technology for Ørsted’s Flag- because its value will be in green credits. Per Jahre-Nilsen, shipONE eMethanol project in Sweden. Carbon Clean is Energy Consultant at DNV, points to the need for maintain- developing a proprietary digital platform for its operations. ing a digital footprint of individual streams of CO2 in large, “Our priority is working with customers to understand multi-stakeholder projects for the certifcation of credits.

how digital technology can be applied to their operations,” It’s important to think of CCS as a system consisting says Prateek Bumb, Carbon Clean co-founder and CTO. renewable energy production, carbon processing and CO2 storage, says Ron Beck, Sr. Industry Marketing Director,

Aspen Technology. Digital twins may have been an option-

Northern Lights

SLB and Microsoft have partnered with Northern Lights al optimization tool in the past, but they are essential now on the development of an Azure-compliant open-source and should span the entire system. Digital twins enable data platform that will serve as the digital infrastructure for process optimization such as cutting energy consumption the Northern Lights project. Digital solutions are essential and improving capture rates and solvent effciency, each for designing, deploying and operating CCS projects safely of which could improve project economics substantially. and economically at scale, says Trygve Randen, Senior Vice They also enable optimization of system-wide processes

President of Digital Products and Solutions, SLB. such as energy delivery. Only then will CCS economics

The company’s Delf digital platform is designed to really work in the long term, for everybody, said Beck.

augment and connect multiple workfows with data, ar- He cites 1PointFive which plans to build around 100 cap- tifcial intelligence and machine learning. The platform is ture facilities over the next 15 years. “You want to learn very open, so while it can handle reservoir modeling for carbon quickly,” he says, so that the optimization can be carried january/february 2024 OFFSHORE ENGINEER 33