Managing Risks in Wells for Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Projects – Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)

On completion of this VILT course, the participants will be able to:

• Uncover the functions and associated components required to store CO₂ in subsurface aquifers and (depleted) hydrocarbon reservoirs
• Find a systematic and integrated approach to risk identification and assessment for CO₂ storage projects (maturation)
• Design of CO₂ injection wells and learn the implications of the CO₂ phase behaviour.
• Understand the challenges, data and methods to assess CO₂ injection and well integrity
• Identify the leakage pathways of a selected storage site, and understand the assessment methods and associated uncertainties
• Learn how to design a monitoring program

This VILT course is intended for all (well) engineers but also, geologists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, production engineers, well engineers and geomechanical specialists. Also, subsurface team leads, project managers, technical risk assessment & assurance specialists will benefit from this training as it provides a common framework and workflow to develop a CCS project.

For each class, it is highly recommended that a mix of disciplines mentioned above are represented to facilitate discussions from different perspectives.

• Intermediate

Learning, Methods and Tools of this Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT):

This VILT course is built around cases in which teams work to identify and assess CO₂ storage site issues using a systematic thought approach. In addition, exercises are used to practise the aspects of the CCS risk assessment process. The VILT course provides an avenue for discussion and sharing of good practices as well as opportunities to practise multi-discipline co-operation and facilitation. Participants are encouraged to bring their own work issues and challenges and seek advice from the expert course leaders and other participants about all aspects of CCS.

Trainer 1:

Your expert course leader has more than 36 years of experience in the oil & gas industry with Shell. He gained broad experience in petroleum engineering, with expertise in integrated production systems from subsurface, wells and surface. He has had assignments in Production Technology, R&D, Production Chemistry, Rock Mechanics and Reservoir Engineering cEOR, with a proven track record in technology screening, development and deployment, field development planning, conceptual well design and Production System Optimization (PSO) of gas and oil fields as well as preparing Well, Reservoir & Facility Management (WRFM) strategies and plans. He had also worked on assignments in NAM and did fieldwork in Oman, Gabon and Shell Nigeria. He is a skilled workshop facilitator. He discovered his passion for teaching following an assignment in Shell Learning. During his time in Shell, he developed and taught technical courses to Shell professionals via blended learning. He has experience in CO₂ storage projects during his time in Shell (Barendrecht. NL and Peterhead, UK) and is currently consultant production engineer for the Porthos CCS project offshore Netherlands.

Trainer 2:

Your second expert course leader has over 30 years of experience identifying, assessing and mitigating technical risks with Shell. The main focal point of his experience is in subsurface and Geomechanical risks. He is the the founding father of various innovations in how we assess risks by tool development (for bore hole stability, 3D geomechanical field evaluations and probabilistic assessment). He also developed an eye for people motivation, change management and facilitation. He was also responsible for the Geomechanical competence framework, and associated virtual and classroom training programme in Shell for 10 years. 

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