National Risk Assessment Partnership

The National Risk Assessment Partnership’s (NRAP) primary objective is to develop a science-based methodology and platform for quantifying risk at carbon storage sites, meant to help reduce risk- and liability-related barriers to full deployment of CO₂ storage.  NRAP’s approach is to model the entire subsurface system, including reservoir, potential leakage paths (e.g., wells), and receptors (e.g., groundwater aquifers) with a group of reduced order models (ROMs).  This approach allows for a quantitative analysis of the uncertainty associated with leakage and induced seismicity risks associated with carbon storage.  For example, NRAP has been able to produce a quantitative risk profile for leakage likelihood over a thousand year period for certain storage sites. 

To this end, NRAP has generated a number of tools that have been used in these analyses and that will be useful to both operators and regulators as they create a dialog around carbon storage risk.  NRAP recently made several of these tools available to the CCS research community for beta testing and is demonstrating them during a series of webinars.  This presentation will showcase the NRAP tools that are currently being tested, as well some of the key findings generated by their use.