£1.4m to map carbon storage potential of UK offshore areas

A new study will identify the UK’s best sites and produce a road map for carbon storage to help the country reach its net zero targets, geologists say.

A Heriot-Watt University study, which has received funding from the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) and support from the UK regulator, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), offshore operators and data owners will examine the gas fields of the Southern North Sea to determine the critical factors that will allow carbon to be safely stored over long, geologocal timescales.

The team will use data from the OGA’s National Data Repository (NDR), one of the largest-ever single open releases of field and infrastructure data from the UK’s oil and gas industry, which was made open access for the first time in 2019.

Further information is available on Heriot Watt University's website.

This article was contributed by the Energy Transition Group