Building Confidence in Transnational CCS Projects

Where a proposed CO2 storage project is transnational involving storage sites that cross international frontiers, pipelines carrying CO2 between states and different industrial and power company partners the need for co-operation from a very early stage is paramount. This co-operation is between national governments, international hydrocarbon E&P companies that are competitors, industrial sectors such as steel manufacturing and cement, power generators and pipeline companies. This BASTOR Project focuses on identifying and characterising potential sites for storage in the Southern Baltic Sea Region. Digital data from well logs, seismic line data interpretations, mapped structure outlines and material from existing hydrocarbon fields and identified and mapped structures from Sweden, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Kaliningrad had to be incorporated into a regional GIS for the Baltic Sea region. The task of transnational data gathering and compilation required considerable persuasion and confidence building among the different transnational stakeholders to ensure that the storage calculations were robust enough to allow significant strategic decisions on CCTS to be made at a government and industry level.