In 2016, Pale Blue Dot Energy completed a UK CO2 storage appraisal project for DECC. Shortly after completing the project, Sam Gomersall presented the results in the form of a Shipping Forecast. To mark the 150th anniversary of the Shipping Forecast (24/08/2017) we are delighted to share it once again.
Storage efficiency in %, capacity in MT, latest appraisal date, potential trend
Sam Gomersall, Pale Blue Dot Energy
© 2016 Energy Technologies Institute LLP
And now here is the UK CO2 Storage forecast for all areas, issued at 1400 UTC on Tuesday 20th
September by the ETI
General synopsis – high storage in many areas, 2016, increasing to the North and East. Low North of Biscay, significant uncertainty as to how this will develop
- Viking, North Utsira, South Utsira:
Depleted Gas, 78%, 130, 2016, rising
- Forties:
Aquifer without structural closure 6%, 300, 2016, rising slowly
- Cromarty:
Aquifer with structural closure 3%, 60, 2016, rising
- Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight:
No storage evaluated, moderate unproven, 2016, no data
- Humber
Aquifer with structural closure, 19%, 280, 2016, multiple targets
- Thames:
Depleted Gas, 70%, 200, 2011, some uncertainty
- Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth, Biscay, Trafalgar, Fitzroy, Sole, Lundy, Fastnet:
No storage potential, poor, clear, 2016, high uncertainty
- Irish Sea:
Depleted gas, 70%, 125, 2016, good to excellent
- Shannon, Rockall:
Irish collaboration, possible, unproven 2012, some uncertainty
- Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, Fair Isle, Faeroes, SE Iceland:
No storage evaluated, moderate to poor, very expensive, 2016, becoming possible later w of Shetland
Inland waters note
- Land’s End – St David’s Head incorporating the Bristol Channel:
likelihood of large earth movements which may affect local sea state and onshore navigational markers for the next eight years (dependent on continuing government policy)
