GESGB Aberdeen Evening Lecture – April 2024 (Hybrid)

Speakers: Callum Inglis & Tom Calder – Spirit Energy

Topic: An Evaluation of the Morecambe Depleted Gas Fields as Future CO₂ Storage Sites

Date/Timings: Tuesday 9 April – 18:00-19:00 (doors open at 17:30)

Venue: Inn at the Park, Ferryhill, AB11 7RX (free parking provided)

Catering: Self-funded bar

Online: The presentation will be available to view via live stream on Zoom. Login details will be sent to registered attendees one day prior to the event.

An Evaluation of the Morecambe Depleted Gas Fields as Future CO₂ Storage Sites

Author(s): Tom Calder, Callum Inglis, Chris Ward – Spirit Energy

The North Morecambe and South Morecambe depleted gas fields are located in the offshore East Irish Sea Basin (EISB), approximately 35 km to the southwest of Barrow. The fields achieved first gas in 1985 and 1991 respectively and were developed via a manned central processing complex and several unmanned satellite platforms. As of 2022, the fields had produced 6.6 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas from the Triassic age Sherwood Sandstone reservoir with peak plateau production of up to 2 Bcf/day from 1992-2002. The fields have been developed and operated by a single company over their production life and have an extensive technical database. Recently they have been evaluated for their suitability as future CO₂ storage sites using criteria set out in the European Union directive on the geological storage of carbon dioxide, namely containment, injectivity, capacity, integrity, hydrodynamics and monitorability.

Callum Inglis – Spirit Energy
Callum is a geologist at Spirit Energy, based in Aberdeen. He graduated with a BSc in Geology from the University of Glasgow in 2013 and graduated with a MSc in Integrated Petroleum Geoscience (IPG) from the University of Aberdeen in 2014. He has lived and worked in Aberdeen and Amsterdam, working for Centrica then Spirit Energy for a total of 10 years. He has spent his time working in exploration, development, and since 2021; carbon storage.

Tom Calder – Spirit Energy
Tom is a reservoir engineer at Spirit Energy, based in Aberdeen. After graduating with a MChem in Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde in 2013, he graduated with a MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot Watt University in 2014. He has spent time working for BG Group, Shell and Spirit Energy, including stints living in England, Brazil and Australia before moving to Aberdeen. His experience is mostly in oil & gas field development, production opportunity identification and reserves forecasting, and he has been working on carbon storage since early 2023.