Field Trials

Real wells, real data: more than 20 years of proving CO₂ monitoring, storage and low-carbon technologies in the field at the Otway International Test Centre.

Demonstrating New Low-Carbon Value Chains

Beyond monitoring technologies, the Otway International Test Centre gives industry partners a storage-ready site to test complete CO₂ capture, transport and storage chains at demonstration scale.

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS): pairing Valorify’s proposed Ararat Biomethane project with geological storage at the OITC to create Australia’s first integrated BECCS chain and the Asia-Pacific region’s first BECCS carbon removal credits
CO₂ compression, transport and injection optimisation for biogenic and direct-air-capture CO₂ streams
Monitoring, measurement and verification (MMV) design to support credit issuance through registries such as Puro.earth
Research-scale demonstration and scale-up of DAC-CCS and other emerging carbon management technologies

Read the case study: Australia’s First Integrated BECCS Value Chain →

Experience in Field Trials

Field-testing Helically Wound Cables (HWC) for monitoring CO2 underground.

Procurement and installation of HWC fibre optic cable under different test conditions
Data acquisition using straight fibre optics and HWCs
Testing the impact of seasonal variations on the performance of HWCs
Field evaluation of various HWC and fibre-optic cables for CO₂ monitoring and storage

Validation of emerging performance and assurance monitoring technologies such as u-tubes, tracer, pressure tomography and DAS for the deep and near surface environments

Field work at the CO2CRC Otway International Test Centre, Victoria

Professor Sally Benson (front) at the Otway International Test Centre with her Stanford University colleagues and CO2CRC staff.

Testing innovative well and surface-based technologies

Seismic acquisition

Bottomhole and wellhead tools

Wirelines

Well integrity

Experience in field-scale experiments in deep and shallow wellbores for mitigating well integrity issues

Why CO2Tech

CO2Tech has unrivalled practical experience in capturing CO2 from industrial emissions in Australia. It can leverage its unique access to advanced storage projects providing the crucial connection between carbon capture and permanent underground CO2 storage.

If you’re a manufacturer, refinery, ‘Safeguard Facility’, etc. that is impacted by the Safeguard Mechanism, contact us today to see how CO2Tech can assist in your next steps to tackle your emissions reduction.