UKCCSRC-C2-183: Best Practice Guidelines for Safe CO2 Injection Start-up

A project poster from the UKCCSRC Call 2 grant UKCCSRC-C2-183, presented at a CSLF reception in London on 27 June 2016. The poster details the development of safety guidelines for injecting CO2 into highly-depleted gas fields, addressing risks like hydrate formation and thermal stress. It was contributed by the British Geological Survey and last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling thermal stress on wellbore casing based on the described risk of fracture from cold CO2 injection.
• Simulating hydrate and ice formation risks based on the described interaction of CO2 with interstitial water.
• Developing operational protocols for start-up injection to prevent over-pressurization and backflow described in the poster.
• Assessing storage site suitability for depleted gas fields based on the described reservoir pressure and impurity challenges.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, high-risk phase of CCS operations: the start-up injection process.
• Explicitly details three concrete safety risks: hydrate/ice formation, thermal stress fracturing, and over-pressurization with backflow.
• Originates from a named grant (UKCCSRC-C2-183) and a specific event (CSLF poster reception, 27.06.16).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

British Geological Survey (BGS)

Collection Method

Project poster presented at a conference reception.

Time Range

Project presented in 2016.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 08:28:53.289547; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Research likely focused on UK contexts, given the funding source (UKCCSRC).