Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) will play an important role in helping lower the carbon intensity of hard-to-abate sectors. As a solution for industrial emitters, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has affirmed that: “reaching net zero will be virtually impossible without CCUS.”

SLB brings together domain expertise and best-in-class technologies to de-risk and optimize each phase of the CCUS process, for greater reliability and lower costs. Using precise selection, planning, development, operation, and monitoring of the carbon storage site, we ensure effective long-term carbon sequestration.

Building on more than two decades of development of the Intersect™ reservoir simulator, SLB, in collaboration with our co-development partners, Chevron and TotalEnergies, took the decision to expand its roadmap into new energies. Together, we have collaborated to create the next generation in CO₂ storage modeling and simulation software."

The Intersect simulator can now handle complex CO₂ physics and model the behavior and potential movement of CO₂ over hundreds to thousands of years. The combination of leading physics with high-performance reservoir simulation at scale, is key for CCUS subsurface workflows, where space and timescales are significant, and where risk minimization demands many simulation runs be conducted for a full understanding of uncertainties.

We are proud that these enhanced capabilities have already become critical in our own activities, and those of our customers’ activities.

• The Intersect simulator is the industry-leading tool for CO₂ storage modeling, covering all types of storage systems and trapping mechanisms. We have developed dedicated workflows for CO₂ storage modeling, leveraging the Intersect simulator’s advanced physics, scalable HPC performance, and powerful field management capabilities. The Intersect simulator is already being used as the simulation platform for Chevron’s CO₂ storage field applications, R&D, mechanistic modeling, and benchmarking.
  Moon Chaudri, reservoir engineering & simulation general manager, Chevron.
   
  

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• The Intersect simulator has been the reservoir simulator of choice for TotalEnergies’ oil and gas projects for the past 11 years. We have now been using the Intersect simulator for several operational CO₂ storage studies and are satisfied with the overall experience. I congratulate the development teams of SLB, TotalEnergies, and Chevron for this great achievement.
  Sebastien Rouyer, senior VP technical lines, TotalEnergies
   
  

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• The Intersect simulator is a step change in performance for CO₂ storage modeling and simulation without compromising on accuracy. You can model the different physical phenomena, at the scale you need and unprecedented speed. This is particularly important for CO₂ storage modeling workflows, where the combination of complexity and uncertainty demands simulation-intensive activities, to minimize operational risks..
  Trygve Randen, senior VP digital solutions, SLB
   
  

The Intersect simulator is commercially available in both on-prem and cloud environments, leveraging state-of-the-art numerical algorithms for optimal performance, and is integrated into digital solutions for CCUS from SLB.

Data source: Geoscience Australia—reproduced by SLB with the Intersect simulator to demonstrate CO₂ plume migration modeling for a CCUS project over a thousand years