Video Site Appraisal for Carbon Capture and Sequestration
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CCUS project solutions & services
CCUS projects fit to your objectives using consultancy, partnerships, and flexible business models
CCUS projects on the rise
In the early 2000s, a spree of carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) projects were announced. Close to 60% of these projects didn’t progress beyond the initial feasibility assessment. At the time, high project costs and lack of policy support blocked momentum. Today, CCUS is poised for a resurgence. In 2021 alone, close to 100 CCUS projects were announced—almost twice as much as the previous peak in 2008.
Selecting the right partner is critical to the success of your project—from project assessment, development, and operations to long-term monitoring. SLB has been involved in more than 100 CCUS projects worldwide and across industries for the past two decades, supporting companies in their decarbonization journeys.
We are currently engaged in multiple global projects where we provide sequestration site subsurface modeling and development plans, CO2 flow assurance, injectivity derisking, and CO2 containment monitoring. Our global CCUS projects span across onshore and offshore applications and industries—including ethanol, methanol, blue hydrogen, bioenergy with CCS (BECCS), oil and gas processing, enhanced oil recovery, cement, power, steel, and more.
With experience and technical know-how across project assessment, development, operations, and long-term monitoring, SLB helps you navigate across the full CCUS value chain.
Fit-for-purpose CCUS projects
CCUS demands more than technology breakthrough. It requires innovative commercial arrangements to deliver CCUS as a service. This means combining deep competencies across different industries and emitters. From accessing, separating, conditioning, and compressing the CO2 to transporting and storing it deep underground.
Given the scale, complexity, and commercial nature of CCUS, partnerships are essential to share expertise and work to reduce project costs. By partnering with leaders across sectors, SLB provides viable and scalable solutions in a wide range of industries. We offer individual services and technologies to holistic end-to-end solutions using flexible business models fit to your project and objectives.
We offer individual to holistic end-to-end solutions.
CCUS is especially suited for large-scale industrial processes. Here are some key sectors that have high potential for commercial-scale deployment:
Cement and steel
The cement industry generates 7% of human-made CO2 emissions. It has no alternative to reducing its footprint but to capture CO2 from the calcination process and dispose of the CO2 at large scale. CCUS will play a leading role in decarbonizing this industry and other hard-to-abate sectors where other technology options are limited, such as aluminum, petrochemical, and steel. Some steel plants generate a high-concentration CO2 stream and are viable candidates to retrofit with CCUS because of their low capture cost.
Learn more about our announced partnership in this area.
Blue hydrogen
There are dozens of existing steam methane reformers (SMRs) in chemical complexes and refineries. The key is to modify the SMR process to capture the CO2 instead of venting it. This enables low- or carbon-free production of H2. Learn more about low-carbon hydrogen production and how it enables CCUS at scale.
BECCS
Biomass energy production combined with CCS (known as bio-CCS or BECCS) has enormous potential to remove significant amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere while producing useful products, such as renewable fuels, hydrogen, or electricity. It also has significant market potential to capitalize on existing government-based credit incentive programs.
What does the landscape of CCUS projects look like today?
SLB has worked with companies ranging from oil and gas to utility and power, steel and cement, biomass, and more. Projects include both on- and offshore applications and have focused on injection into saline aquifers and utilized depleted oil and gas reservoirs.
What role do partnerships and collaboration play in CCUS?
Today, we are seeing more collaborative CCUS projects. We collaborate to provide reliable, efficient, and economic CCUS projects to achieve net zero. As the CCUS industry matures, we anticipate more opportunities among industry players to exchange best practices, lessons learned, and the latest in technological innovation. Ultimately, this will help drive new and innovative CCUS solutions.
What kind of planning is involved to implement a CCUS project?
We have a workflow that starts out with the preselection process. This involves us collaborating with you to assess a project’s feasibility before any further investment is done. The next step is the appraisal phase. This is where we get into the site specifics by building geological models leveraging our subsurface data and domain expertise. Then, in the development stage, we manage building out the project. This includes determining the well location for storing the CO2, how many remaining injection and monitoring wells are required, setting up the air and ground monitoring services, and completing any other permit-specific requirements to begin injection. Next comes the injection phase followed by the final phase, postinjection, which can last up to 100 years, depending on where the project is located.
Press releases
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Schlumberger and RTI International Partner to Accelerate the Industrialization of Innovative Carbon Capture Technology
Schlumberger announced today that it has entered into an agreement with RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, to accelerate the industrialization and scale-up of its proprietary non-aqueous solvent (NAS) technology, which enhances the efficiency of absorption-based carbon capture. View
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Schlumberger and Sintela Announce Technology Sharing Agreement to Advance Fiber-Optic Solutions Across Multiple Industries
Schlumberger and Sintela announced today that they have signed an agreement to co-develop new fiber-optic solutions for multiple industrial markets. View
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LafargeHolcim and Schlumberger New Energy Explore Carbon Capture and Storage Solutions
LafargeHolcim and Schlumberger New Energy will explore the development of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) solutions. View
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Schlumberger DELFI Digital Platform Selected by Northern Lights JV for CO2 Project
Schlumberger will deploy the DELFI cognitive E&P environment on the Norwegian CO2 project by the Northern Lights Joint Venture (NL), to streamline subsurface workflows and longer-term modeling and surveillance of CO2 sequestration. View
Fundamental carbon capture and sequestration for managers
This virtual course will familiarize management personnel across industries about CCUS. Topics include a discussion on the global outlook for CCUS, integrated workflows for projects, key technologies, case studies, and more.
The vital role of CCUS and SLB’s involvement
Watch as our SLB experts discuss the challenges facing the CCUS industry and how we’re poised to ensure your project’s success.
Carbon capture and sequestration—a rapidly growing industry
This webinar discusses the critical stages to planning and implementing successful CCUS projects. It also presents case studies and talks about how SLB evolved its technology portfolio to support CCUS.
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US Department of Energy and ADM Optimize Carbon Sequestration Using Multizonal Intelligent Completion
Real-time monitoring and control with modular completion equipment and Optiq fiber-optic solution. View
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Minnkota Power Partners with SLB for CO2 Storage Reservoir Evaluation
Subsurface data acquisition, analysis, and modeling creates evaluation blueprint and future Class VI injection well permitting. View
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Fiber Optics Improves Subsurface Understanding for a CCS Project
Optiq Seismic solution efficiently acquired data across four wells using both multimode and single-mode fiber. View
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Carbon Capture
Differentiated technologies and deep expertise to optimize your carbon capture and lower costs. View
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Carbon Sequestration
Integrated solutions for selecting, planning, constructing, operating, and monitoring carbon storage sites. View
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The Vital Role of CCUS
SLB’s bold approach to a practical and viable carbon abatement solution. View
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Carbon Capture & Processing
Processing systems knowledge and intelligent software to help determine the capture technology fit for you. View
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Carbon Transport
Captured carbon only goes as far as delivering it with the highest safety and optimization in mind. View
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Carbon Sequestration Selection & Design
Planning the carbon storage site with capacity, injectivity, and containment in mind. View
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Carbon Sequestration Construction
Depend on SLB to maintain the integrity of your carbon storage for the future. View
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Carbon Monitoring, Verification & Reporting
Proactive and integrated monitoring to keep your carbon sequestration operations running smoothly. View
SLB Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Accelerate your path to net zero with flexible, reliable, collaborative, and cost-effective solutions across the CCUS value chain.
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