Final report from the SENSE project

The SENSE project was completed early 2023 with very interesting results. SENSE has focused on the geomechanical aspects of CO2 storage sites and the deformation induced in surrounding formations and observed at surface.

Geomechanics controls the integrity of storage sites. Experimental and numerical studies showed that ground deformation monitoring will reveal geomechanical changes that can easily be measured. And the good news is that ground deformations can be calculated beforehand using a mathematical solution developed in SENSE. This solution is available for calculating ground deformation around and above storage reservoir. This implies that operators do not need to do a costly, full geomechanical modelling in the planning phase of the project but instead do a quick and inexpensive first-order estimation that is reliable. The good news is that ground deformation, which we propose as a monitoring parameter, is not a stand-alone study but can use the same model as used for analysing faults, fractures, etc.

SENSE has propose a monitoring workflow that includes ground deformation and you can read about this and other results in the SENSE Final Report (download)