About G.R.A.S.P.
 The main objective of GRASP is to provide a multidisciplinary training platform to build a group of young researchers able to tackle the GHG storage issues for the next decades. Academia and Industry have the potential and the duty to educate and train this new generation. GRASP will integrate the disciplines of geophysics, physics, petrophysics, geology, microbiology, chemistry, mineralogy, geochemistry, reservoir engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, mathematics and rock-mechanics to address the key domains: reservoir characterization, storage monitoring and wellbore isolation.An introduction to the CO2 storage Global warming resulting from the increase in greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere is a major societal concern. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the major climate-forcing agent1 together with methane and nitrous oxide. Since the industrial revolution, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 has increased from 280 to 374 ppm, largely due to fossil fuel combustion and deforestation. Today's CO2 concentration is the highest level known in the last 420,000 years.
The impact of anthropogenic GHG emissions on atmospheric concentrations and climate has been subject to extensive scientific and public discussion. Scientists have only recently convinced governments of the urgency in dealing with this environmental threat. Research in this area is still immature and scientific and technical communities are poorly organised to provide solutions.
GRASP scientists and researchers
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