Remaining Challenges in Underground Storage of CO2

Melianna is an Indonesian geoscientist passionate about championing equitable, science-driven, and ambitious climate solutions. She started her career in the energy industry as a geophysicist assessing pre-drilling geohazard risks in several offshore oil fields. Through her master's thesis, she delivered policy recommendations to Texas General Land Office based on experiment results in geoscience and reservoir simulations, in order to optimize Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) operation. During her fellowship at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, she helped characterize CO2 storage sites in Northern California and calculated the static storage capacity of the depleted gas fields. She is currently assisting energy companies to accelerate their CCS projects and help decarbonize the oil and gas industries with Tetra Tech.
The term Carbon Capture and Storage has gained more popularity in the past few years, especially for energy and environmental enthusiasts. While there is no one magic bullet to fight climate change, scientists and engineers, myself included, believe that CCS can at least buy us the time until renewable energy can be sustainably viable and widely affordable. When it comes to underground storage of CO2, most challenges revolve around the capacity and reliability of this considerably new technology. Through this talk, I am inviting you to join the discussion that will focus more on how we can deal with the uncertainties of the subsurface to store CO2.