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The Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO), Petroleum Institute (PI), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Masdar Institute have joined together for collaborative research into carbon sequestration.

The project is motivated by the Abu Dhabi government’s environmental sustainability strategies and will look into the storage of carbon dioxide captured from industrial plants. This is one way in which the UAE and especially Abu Dhabi, is taking steps towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions and, ultimately, achieving carbon neutrality.

ADCO benefits from Masdar Institute’s advanced experience with subsurface flow modeling, remote sensing and other capabilities that are crucial to the development of such research.

This collaborative research responds to Abu Dhabi’s ambitious plan to capture CO₂ from a wide range of large carbon-emitting industrial plants, and transport it through pipelines to inject it for enhanced oil recovery and/or subsurface storage in geological formations. Capturing and storing carbon dioxide can not only help reduce Abu Dhabi’s contribution to global climate change, but can also be used for economic benefit in enhanced oil recovery. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has emerged as a critical enabling technology for the continued use of fossil fuels in a carbon constrained world and deployment of CCS in Abu Dhabi will position Abu Dhabi as a leader in clean hydrocarbon energy.

The multi-party collaboration is evaluating the carbon dioxide storage potential of deep saline aquifers in the UAE and the critical issues for successful deployment of CCS. The project specifically addresses key aspects related to the characterization, containment, migration and monitoring of the injected CO₂.
The focus of the research is on model-based monitoring. Many monitoring techniques exist, each with a specific strength and all, in principle, have a role to play. Model-based monitoring provides a unifying framework to integrate the data from the different techniques, and to assess their added value to CCS projects in specific aquifers.

The project addresses key aspects related to the characterization, containment, migration and monitoring of the injected CO₂. It is organized in five thrusts:

Site Characterization.
Geomechanical Modeling and Caprock Integrity.
Capacity Estimates and Risk Assessment of CO₂ Injection.
Comprehensive Monitoring Program.
Education and Knowledge Transfer.

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