CO2ReMoVe update : research into monitoring and verification of CO2 storage sites

The CO2ReMoVe project is a five-year EC and industry funded 6th Framework Integrated Project, launched in March 2006. It aims to develop tools and methodologies for monitoring CO2 stored in geological sites and to produce guidelines and best practice recommendations, for CO2 storage projects in monitoring and performance assessment. The research is focused on large-scale test sites, Sleipner (Norway) and In Salah (Algeria). In the second phase of the project the portfolio of sites will increase to include SnØhvit (Norway) and smaller-scale test sites. At these sites an extensive range of site monitoring technologies including time-lapse seismics, microgravimetry, electrical surveys, downhole fluid sampling, tracers, soil gas measurements, microbiological surveys, seabed surveys and atmospheric measurements will be deployed.