Site Visit Opportunities

Storage-site selection and geological modelling; Monitoring and environmental assurance; Storage risks, regulations and project economics.

Key Learning Areas

• Includes field exposure at International Test Centre, where participants can observe a recognised CO2 storage testing environment firsthand.
• Connects subsurface technical work with real project issues such as geological modelling, monitoring, verification, environmental considerations, and storage economics.
• Led by experienced specialists across geophysics, reservoir engineering, and techno-regulatory advisory disciplines.
• Helps participants understand where CO2 storage projects align with, and differ from, conventional oil and gas development workflows.

The In-Situ Laboratory offers a rare opportunity to visit a long-term field research site dedicated to understanding faults and testing monitoring technologies that support geological carbon storage. The facility is designed to strengthen science-based confidence in safe, reliable, and cost-effective CCS development.

Key Learning Areas

• Hosted by a national science agency at a dedicated CCS research field site near Western Australia.
• Provides direct exposure to the type of fault-focused research that informs monitoring design, risk communication, and policy development.
• Suitable for technical delegations, policy stakeholders, researchers, and industry professionals seeking a practical understanding of CCS monitoring and site assurance.
• Structured visit experience includes induction, site tour, and introductions to the technologies and research objectives behind the facility.

The test centre offers a powerful industrial reference point for organisations working across carbon capture, technology selection, and deployment readiness. The facility supports post-combustion testing in a real industrial environment and provides insight into how capture technologies move from pilot maturity toward commercial confidence.

Key Learning Areas

• Widely presented as the world’s largest open-access CO2 capture test facility, with two industrial flue gas sources and 24/7 operations.
• Enables discussion around technology readiness, performance validation, derisking, and practical learning before full-scale deployment.
• Links technical testing with broader decision-making at FEED, investment, and project selection stages.
• Highly relevant for emitters, licensors, technology developers, and teams evaluating capture pathways.

Explore how captured CO₂ is received, transported and stored as part of an integrated CCS value chain. This visit provides insight into the infrastructure, commercial collaboration and operational considerations required to develop large-scale CO₂ transport and storage systems.

Key Learning Areas

• CO₂ receiving, transportation and permanent offshore storage
• Development of cross-border CCS value chains and infrastructure
• Operational, commercial and regulatory considerations

Facility access is subject to availability, operator approval and applicable HSE requirements.

The Borneo field programme is positioned as a hands-on geological learning platform covering basement-related plays, shallow marine systems, fault seal behaviour, and clastic reservoir architecture. The locations in Sarawak and Sabah provide diverse exposures that can help exploration and development teams sharpen their subsurface interpretation through direct field observation.

Key Learning Areas

• Covers reservoir analogues, basin architecture, structural deformation, trap formation, source-to-reservoir relationships, and volcanic influences on basin development.
• Includes themes such as the Paleogene Sarawak play, shallow marine petroleum systems, fault seal analysis, and clastic depositional systems.
• Strong fit for exploration and development geologists, structural geologists, reservoir engineers, seismic interpreters, and basin analysts.
• Supported by defined HSE planning, safety supervision, risk assessment, toolbox talks, PPE provision, and emergency response preparation.

The field excursion is built around coastal outcrop visits in New Zealand that provide insights into sandstone systems relevant to exploration and development in deepwater plays. The programme combines field observation with interactive technical discussion and workshop-style learning.

Key Learning Areas

• Designed to examine outcrops that support deeper understanding of exploration and field development challenges.
• Combines field stops with discussion-led learning between trip leaders and participants, rather than passive sightseeing.
• Useful for teams that value outcrop analogues as a bridge between subsurface datasets and geological interpretation.
• Structured with formal HSE planning and field risk management.

This field trip portfolio presents a broad set of specialist geological programmes across Southern and Northern Italy, Albania, Croatia, the UAE, and Oman. These experiences are especially strong for teams working on carbonate reservoirs, deformation and fracture systems, karst geometries, hydrothermal dolomitisation, and hydrocarbon play understanding in structurally complex settings.

Key Learning Areas

• Programmes span multiple themes, including isolated carbonate platforms, shallow-to-deep-water carbonate systems, fractured reservoirs, karst geometries, and Musandam Peninsula hydrocarbon play types.
• The material reviewed includes strong evidence of operator use and participant satisfaction, supporting credibility for website positioning.
• Well suited for specialist teams seeking advanced outcrop-based learning rather than generic introductory field exposure.
• Can be positioned as premium technical field experiences for companies wanting discipline-deep capability building.