Introduction

During the development of the Risk Assessment Network, discussions highlighted that the integrity of well bores and their long-term ability to retain CO2 could be a significant potential risk for the long-term security of geological storage facilities. To address this component of risk assessment a workshop was held in April 2005 to bring together over 50 experts from both industrial operators and from research organisations to determine the current state of knowledge of well bore integrity.
One of the main outcomes from the workshop was that the scope of work on well bore integrity was enough to establish its own network but there would be a report on progress at the annual Risk Assessment Network Meetings.
A summary report of the initial workshop is available below.

Contact

If you are interested in becoming involved in the Well Bore Integrity Network please contact Sian Twinning (sian@ieaghg.org).

Meetings

A summary report of the workshop is available

Further information for Delegates available here

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