Energy transition projects at Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia DNRR (Department of Natural Resources and Renewables) have benefited from collaborations between industry, academia, and government. Regional studies and screening studies by ExxonMobil, GSC, DNRR, CNSOPB and OERA provided foundations for recent EAGE student competitions that have added innovation and multiple full-cycle realisations (geoscience-engineering-economics-HSE). Since 2021 ∼60 multi-disciplinary teams have participated in three Minus CO2 Challenges tackling complex offshore and onshore Nova Scotia projects. The 2021 competition ( First Break, April 2022 ) provided the first published quantitative assessment of carbon storage in deep saline aquifers on the Mesozoic Scotian Shelf demonstrating volumes similar to the North Sea. The 2022 competition ( First Break, June 2023 ) focussed on risking and success-case carbon-neutral development of light-oil prospects at Penobscot near Sable Island. In 2023, teams were charged with developing 300 MW of renewable energy, balancing load with CAES or hydrogen storage in Carboniferous salt caverns in the onshore Cumberland Basin. Modelling of geothermal energy in Cumberland Basin reflects the 2023 Laurie Dake Challenge (geothermal evaluation in the Vienna Basin, courtesy OMV).
Subsurface Energy Transition Projects in Nova Scotia: Government-University-Industry Collaborations and Eage Student Competitions
Bernasconi, G.;
2023-01-01
Abstract
Energy transition projects at Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia DNRR (Department of Natural Resources and Renewables) have benefited from collaborations between industry, academia, and government. Regional studies and screening studies by ExxonMobil, GSC, DNRR, CNSOPB and OERA provided foundations for recent EAGE student competitions that have added innovation and multiple full-cycle realisations (geoscience-engineering-economics-HSE). Since 2021 ∼60 multi-disciplinary teams have participated in three Minus CO2 Challenges tackling complex offshore and onshore Nova Scotia projects. The 2021 competition ( First Break, April 2022 ) provided the first published quantitative assessment of carbon storage in deep saline aquifers on the Mesozoic Scotian Shelf demonstrating volumes similar to the North Sea. The 2022 competition ( First Break, June 2023 ) focussed on risking and success-case carbon-neutral development of light-oil prospects at Penobscot near Sable Island. In 2023, teams were charged with developing 300 MW of renewable energy, balancing load with CAES or hydrogen storage in Carboniferous salt caverns in the onshore Cumberland Basin. Modelling of geothermal energy in Cumberland Basin reflects the 2023 Laurie Dake Challenge (geothermal evaluation in the Vienna Basin, courtesy OMV).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
