Overview

TRUST is a five year project which aims at conducting CO₂ injection experiments at scales large enough so that the output can be extrapolated at industrial scales. It relies on four sites: the heavily instrumented sites of Heletz (Israel, main site) and Hontomin (Spain), access Miranga (Brazil) and the emerging site in the Baltic Sea region.
TRUST's objectives are to:

• Carry out CO₂ injection tests at sites representative of large scale storage and with injection volumes that will produce extrapolable reservoir responses. The aim is to advance towards CO₂ storage at industrial scale (over 1 Mt) in the Heletz site.
• Develop, use and implement characterization and Measurement-Monitoring and Verification (MMV) technologies for maximized safety and minimized risks, including real time visualization of the CO2 containment and detection of possible failures.
• Develop optimal injection strategies that maintain realistic figures of injectivity, and capacity while simultaneously optimizing the use of energy.
• Detect and mitigate CO₂ leakage at an abandoned well.
• Produce comprehensive datasets for model verification and validation, taking into consideration the relevant physical and chemical processes (particularly reactive transport).
• Improve the predictive capacity and performance of computational models, as well as their capability to handle uncertainty and thermo-hydro-mechanical and chemical phenomena at different scales (at the scale of the experiments) and upscaling (extrapolation to industrial scale) simulations.
• Address critical non-scientific issues of public acceptance, community participation, communication, dissemination, liabilities and prepare templates for the preparation and application of injection licenses and communication with regulators.
• Establish on-site facilities for analysis of monitoring and measurement, providing training and capacity building.
• Address the risk assessment in a meaningful way
• Prepare a platform for the exploitation of project findings and for knowledge and information sharing with planned, large scale, CCS projects.
• Allow open access to sites, and seek cooperation with large scale CO₂ injection projects both at the European and International levels.