CCS consulting and training
CCS - the capture, transport and storage of carbon dioxide in deep geological formations - is amongst geoscience’s hottest topics.
I offer consulting expertise and training in a broad range of CCS topics. I have worldwide and senior governmental and scientific experience including as a consultant to the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser and CCS consultancy and advice in four continents.
Anthropogenic influences on the geological carbon cycle
Capturing carbon dioxide
Transporting carbon dioxide
CO2 utilisation following capture
Geological storage
Monitoring and MMV
Test and demonstration sites
Legal and regulatory
Finance
International case studies
Public perception and social licence
“Excellent instructor, course presentation and materials. Perfect intro for CCS accessible to all backgrounds.” Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2024
“Mike has a wealth of experience and knowledge.” Kuala Lumpur, Malysia 2024
“Great knowldge of the US CCS landscape”. Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA 2024
Acknowledgement My2050
Energy modelling
Use the My2050 online simulator to get to net zero. Find out about the role that CCS might have in a modern economy.
Modified from MacKay 2009
International attitudes, and geopolitics of CCS
The responsibility for high carbon dioxide emissions and perhaps with funding and leadership in CCS lies with the early-industrialising nations.
Need for CCS
Demand for energy is increasing in the developing economies and their energy profiles are different to those of the Global North.
Storage risk profile
What are the main risks? How does regulation deal with closure and handover of liability? What is the storage risk profile?
Building stakeholders for hubs and clusters
Stakeholder maps can be used to identify the main roles and interests that different organisations and groups have in relation to a CCS project.
Business models
Business models vary across the world. An economically viable model already exists in the USA through tax breaks and a ready market for captured carbon dioxide.
Awards
People
CCS legal team, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2024
Well inspection group, Lake Charles, Louisiana 2024
EAGE short course 2023
IPTC Bangkok 2023
Customers
CCS research
This recent paper discusses the lateral and vertical variation in palynology within individual argillaceous units, as well as lateral variation between different argillaceous units in the same sedimentary complex at similar stratigraphic levels. It aims at a tool for understanding more about why mudstone heterogeneity happens and ways of predicting heterogeneity in the subsurface. In new research, I look at ways that this initial published work could be extended as part of a CCS reservoir model workflow, by statistically assigning levels of likelihood that mudstone units could act as reservoir baffles.
Books on CCS and the energy tranistion
‘Returning Carbon to Nature; coal, carbon capture, and storage’ (Elsevier 2013) describes the science of carbon capture and storage.
‘Shale gas and fracking: the science behind the controversy’ (Elsevier 2015), won an ‘honorable mention’ at the Association of American Publishers PROSE awards in Washington DC which ‘…annually recognize the very best in scholarly publishing…’.
‘Energy and Climate Change: An Introduction to Geological Controls, Interventions and Mitigations’ (Elsevier 2018) sets the agenda for much of the geoscience for the net zero challenge