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In August 2022, the world's longest running offshore industrial CO injection project celebrated its 26-year anniversary. During these years, the Sleipner CO injection project has been invaluable in demonstrating that offshore CO storage is feasible, safe, and efficient. We will here show how time-lapse seismic monitoring of the CO plume development has revealed depositional architecture in the Utsira Formation, and how thin mudstone layers have contributed to distributing the CO in a larger rock volume, promoting trapping by dissolution. The relatively shallow depth (800–1000 m) of Utsira Formation in the Sleipner area also makes the Sleipner CO injection site a good proxy for understanding the effects of overburden stratigraphy for deeper injection sites, giving important knowledge of detectability of thin, shallow CO accumulations. Finally, we will show how the experience from Sleipner CO injection has built confidence when planning monitoring programmes for future CO injection sites.

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Sleipner 26 years: how well-established subsurface monitoring work processes have contributed to successful offshore CO2 injection
Geoenergy 2, geoenergy2024-015 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1144/geoenergy2024-015
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