The reservoirs for CO2 storage in the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea have less capacity than expected and Statoil is now working intensively to find alternative solutions for getting more CO2 into the reservoir, TU.no reports.
"What we have seen is that the pressure in the reservoir increases more than anticipated when the CO2 is injected," company press spokesman Gisle Johanson said. "This makes the storage capacity less than we had anticipated."
Statoil now intends to well intervention technology to break up the geological formations. Another alternative is to drill a new well, Johansen said.
The Snøhvit project, the first hydrocarbon field in production in the Barents Sea, is the northernmost liquid natural gas plant in the world.
But Statoil has had serious technical problems with the Melkøya plant, something which has resulted in CO2 emission far beyond its original plans.
Melkøya plant produces liquid natural gas and greenhouse gas emissions
The CO2 storage reservoirs have less capacity than expected and that's been tested by higher-than-anticipated levels of CO2 production...
Published: 12.03.2010 13:04
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