Course RC2

The greatest challenge facing mankind today is the advancement to a more sustainable energy infrastructure and the concurrent mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Meeting this challenge will require a diversified array of solutions spanning across multiple industries. One of the solutions rising to the fore is the potential to rapidly build-out carbon sequestration, which involves the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere and its storage in the subsurface. Carbon capture and storage has the benefit of being able to directly build from the extensive physical, capital and human infrastructure of the oil and gas industry. Drawing on in-depth knowledge subsurface fluid flow, and informed by a modern interdisciplinary perspective, this course provides a comprehensive and practical technical guide into the potential that aquifers hold as sites for carbon and energy storage. It brings an overview of much needed multi-disciplinary skills and a technical understanding from the petroleum business that can be applied to the selection of underground storage sites and their management in the subsurface. This course provides valuable and timely insights into how we can draw from the wealth of existing technologies and data deployed by the fossil fuel industry in our transition toward a more sustainable future. This course is valuable to academic, professional, and business audiences seeking to evaluate the potential subsurface storage of carbon and/or energy and to inform policymakers in developing the proper policy tools to advance the objectives of a sustainable energy transition.