Best Practice for the Commercial Deployment of Carbon Dioxide Geologic Storage: The Adaptive Management Approach
The PCOR Partnership has spent over 10 years developing, testing, and validating the best methods and technologies to conduct the geologic storage of CO2. Through this effort, the PCOR Partnership has formalized an adaptive management approach (AMA) for the commercial development of CO2 storage projects. The use of this approach, which draws upon the collective experience and lessons learned from the PCOR Partnership, represents best practice for advancing CO2 storage projects toward commercial deployment. At the heart of the AMA are four technical elements necessary for any successful CO2 storage project: 1) site characterization; 2) modeling and simulation; 3) risk assessment; and 4) monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA). Each of these elements plays a key role in gathering and assessing site-specific data that provide a fundamental understanding of the storage complex and its performance. While each of the four technical elements can provide useful data independently, integrating them through the AMA yields a streamlined, fit-for-purpose strategy for the commercial deployment of CO2 storage.View/Download Document