Sleipner CCS: The Gold Standard for 4D Monitoring

Project Overview

The Sleipner project in the Norwegian North Sea is the world’s first industrial-scale CO2 storage project. Since 1996, over 20 million tonnes of CO2 have been injected into the Utsira saline aquifer.

4D Seismic Contribution

4D seismic has been the primary tool for verifying the safety and integrity of the storage.

  • Impact: Proved that CO2 remains trapped within the aquifer.
  • Key Takeaway: Successfully quantified the distribution and thickness of individual CO2 layers using time-lapse amplitude analysis.

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