Atmospheric technology development

Purpose

The activity aims to develop cost-effectively atmospheric, soil and marine CO2 measurement devices to continuously (24/7) monitor CO2 gas concentrations at ground level and near-ground level conditions, above and below terrestrial ground surfaces and water surfaces including marine.

Summary

This will be achieved through the following sub projects:

• Developing technology and processes that can provide a continuous digital record of measured atmospheric CO2 concentrations at an injection site, before, during, and after CO2 injection.
• Installing monitoring instruments able to provide continuous (24/7 back-to-office) wide coverage atmospheric CO2 and total hydrocarbon measurements for assurance monitoring and surveillance. Monitoring options for terrestrial and marine environments will also need to be considered.
• Managing the storage of monitoring data for immediate and post event analysis and modelling.
• Quantifying the atmospheric CO2 concentration in terms of time and location, and to a level of accuracy as to be acceptable as factual information admissible in courts.
• Defining technology using DIAL (laser) technology as a permanent 24/7 back-to-base, fence-line monitoring station called “Lighthouse” detection.
• Developing and building IR technology as an in-situ, remote, automated and continuous down hole monitoring station.