Prospectivity - Onshore geological carbon storage report

GeoScience Victoria has produced a comprehensive technical assessment of the offered Geological Carbon Storage (GCS) exploration tender areas. The report, entitled: Geological carbon storage potential of the onshore Gippsland Basin, Victoria, Australia, evaluates the relative prospectivity of the onshore region from a geological carbon storage viewpoint. It considers three principal technical themes, namely:

• Containment: understanding where CO₂ will be contained in the deep sub-surface (the distribution and capacity of the fine grained sealing rocks deep sub-surface).
• Injectivity & Storage Potential: understanding how much CO₂ can be safely put into the deep sub-surface (the quality, thickness and distribution of the porous sand reservoirs in the deep sub-surface).
• Impacts: understanding where any injected CO₂ will migrate to, in what timeframe and what effects might it have on existing hydrocarbon resources and infrastructure, on undiscovered hydrocarbon and other resources and on the physical and man-made environment?

The report provides a comprehensive description of the GCS play fairways and components in the region and also includes a comprehensive evaluation of the available geoscience information for the region.

For information, please contact Dr Louise Goldie Divko (Phone: 03 9658 4547).

Related information:

• First order sealing and hydrocarbon migration processes, Gippsland Basin, Australia: implications for CO₂ geosequestration - O'Brien, G.W., et.al., Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium III.
• VIMP Report 30 - Hydrocarbon play fairways of the onshore Gippsland Basin, Victoria
• VicGCS Report 1 - Geological carbon storage in the Gippsland Basin, Australia: Containment potential
• VicGCS Report 2 - Geological carbon storage potential of the onshore Gippsland Basin, Victoria, Australia
• Geological storage opportunities for carbon capture and storage in Victoria
• GeoVic - Explore Victoria Online