Public Funding for Opengosim Limited

To significantly improve simulation software to inform carbon capture sequestration (CCS). This will advance moves towards net zero by better supporting those companies seeking to capture carbon in reservoirs.

COREu will demonstrate key enabling technologies in a CCS value chain and support the development of three new CCS routes in Central-East Europe (CEE), helping accelerate CCS development . COREu will (a) provide the means for development of an open-access, trans-national network (infrastructure and logistic) to connect emitters with storage sites in Europe, by identifying multimodal transport requirements, and developing emitters’ clusters to create the demand and the investment rationale, (b) increase the knowledge of the CCS value chain across Europe through interconnected initiatives, sharing of experience, knowledge and data to create a common framework that encompasses all key aspects of CCS deployment: technological know-how, business models, consensus management, monitoring, reporting and validation, policy framework, transport and storage safety. COREU will contribute to 6.8Mt/year in CO2 reduction by 2035 and 36Mt/year by 2050, develop 8 innovations for Measurement Monitoring Verification, interoperability and Value Chain Monitoring, and improve the Internal Rate of Return of CO2 infrastructure investment by 6% through de-risking core technologies.

CO2CloudSim will be the only web application supporting open-source software to simulate CO2 storage and CO2-enhanced oil recovery (CO2 -EOR) subsurface processes, combining parallel computing and Cloud technologies. Due to its inherently ad hoc development process, open-source software brings continuous innovation from experts worldwide, but is difficult to use. Parallel computing dramatically reduces the time needed to perform a simulation by using multiple computer processors, but the computer hardware required is expensive to buy and maintain. CO2CloudSim will make open-source software easier to use by providing a web- user interface, live support and affordable parallel hardware through the use of Cloud technology and a pay-as- you-go service. Making open-source software more accessible to industry users, CO2CloudSim will enable software customisations needed to accelerate the continued development of CCS and CO2-EOR. During this feasibility study we will develop a prototype of CO2CloudSim to enable early customer tests, and introduce significant improvements to the open-source simulator engine by innovative numerical methods.