**SLB Releases Well Integrity Assessment Tool for Carbon Storage Developers at ONS 2024**
SLB has launched a comprehensive well integrity assessment tool that aims to simplify carbon storage site selection and evaluation by quantifying the risks associated with wells at prospective storage sites with previous drilling activity. The new methodology for well integrity risk quantification helps users understand the risks associated with each well, informing remediation strategies and ultimately estimating the project’s long-term viability.
The significance of the risks associated with each well and the costs of remediation to mitigate leakage risks can make a project economically unfeasible. By addressing potential well integrity issues early in the development process, SLB’s well integrity assessment solution can help storage developers avoid costly delays or operational disruptions, and drive companies toward their net zero ambitions.
Many prospective carbon storage sites are located in either mature or retired oil and gas fields. Having a large number of wells at a site increases the risk of potential leakage pathways for the stored carbon.
SLB’s well integrity assessment technology incorporates advanced failure mode effect and criticality analysis to assess potential leakage pathways, well barrier, failure mechanisms and resulting consequences. Using advanced multi-physics 3D modeling, SLB can assess the volume and flow rates of brine and carbon leakage over time to better estimate risk.
The significance of the risks associated with each well and the costs of remediation to mitigate leakage risks can make a project economically unfeasible. By addressing potential well integrity issues early in the development process, SLB’s well integrity assessment solution can help storage developers avoid costly delays or operational disruptions, and drive companies toward their net zero ambitions.
SLB’s new methodology aims to simplify carbon storage site selection and evaluation by quantifying well integrity risk. This technology is designed to ensure the integrity of carbon storage sites, which is essential for enabling the growth of CCUS and creating a low carbon energy ecosystem.
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