At SpotLight, our proudest achievement isn’t just our technology or projects — it’s seeing our SpotLighters grow into confident professionals ready to share their work with the world.

And this October, Pauline did just that.

She presented our joint paper with Whitecap Resources, “The value of Spot Seismic: 4 years of monitoring on the Weyburn site”, at the EAGE CCUS Conference in Toronto. Her first technical presentation marked a major milestone both for her and for SpotLight.

The study showcases the robustness of Spot Seismic for detecting CO₂, with three campaigns conducted between 2022 and 2024. It also includes a comparison with a full 4D seismic survey conducted in 2024, confirming the reliability and complementarity of both technologies.

Spot Seismic provides frequent, localized insights into fluid dynamics, while 4D seismic offers a broader spatial view every four years. Together, they enable a cost-effective and efficient monitoring strategy for CO₂ injection and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).

This publication validates nine years of hard work at SpotLight and highlights the power of frequent, focused monitoring to build trust in CCS.

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We’re proud to announce that SpotLight has been selected for inclusion in the 2025 Technology Compendium by the Global CCS Institute a global reference for the most advanced carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies.

Our feature highlights Spot Seismic, our patented monitoring solution designed for frequent, focused, and field-proven detection of CO₂ in geological storage sites. With a TRL of 8–9, Spot Seismic has been successfully deployed in major CCS projects such as Greensand (Denmark), Weyburn (Canada), and Poseidon (UK).

This recognition is a milestone for SpotLight, and a strong signal that smart, risk-based MMV strategies are essential to building trust in CCS.

Want to see what made the cut?

Explore the full Technology Compendium on the Global CCS Institute website

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SpotLight is thrilled to announce it has been recognized as a Top Innovator of 2024 by Darcy Partners. This prestigious award honors SpotLight’s unwavering commitment to innovation and role in driving the energy transition towards a sustainable future.

The Technology Pioneer designation by Darcy partners highlights innovative providers driving impactful change. Each year, top innovators are selected based on customer feedback, deployment success and industry interest via the Darcy connect platform,. The award aims to accelerated adoption of technologies addressing critical industry challenges.

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Camille Cosson represented SpotLight at the inaugural CCS Forum held in Murcia, the first Spanish region to grant a CCS pilot project license. The forum aimed to bring together operators and providers from the CCS value chain, along with think-tank researchers and the public, to inform them about the benefits of this emerging industry. Experienced professionals shared examples from field sites and discussed various innovative solutions to boost the CCS industry and enable its implementation at an industrial scale.

Presented at EAGE GET 2024, 5th EAGE Global energy Transition Conference & Exhibition, Rotterdam, November 2024 by Amandine Festucci

Written by Amandine Festucci¹, Marta Puig², Chris Furby², Henry Morris³, Victoria Brun¹, Elodie Morgan¹, ¹SpotLight ,²Perenco ,³Carbon Catalyst

Introduction: The Poseidon project is a carbon storage project in the Leman gas field offshore UK in production since the sixties. This licence will be the first CO2 injection in the UK with several challenges regarding the Monitoring Measurement and Verification (MMV) plan. As part of the monitoring technologies for the Pilot injection, the focused seismic solution will be implemented at the end of 2024. This active seismic solution detects changes in specific subsurface areas, called Spots, using only one source and one receiver per spot (Al Khatib et al, 2021). Legacy seismic data such as 3D seismic, velocity model and raw seismic gather are at the core of this focused seismic monitoring analysis. Two advantages of the spot seismic concerns the spot location accuracy and the optimum location for source and receiver. Depending on the field geology, Common Mid-Point (CMP) and model-based approaches will present limitations. Few hundred meters differences in X, Y locations have been observed for several spots on the Leman gas field when comparing CMP. Aside of ray path propagations in the subsurface, signal to noise ratio is also paramount with such a light amount of seismic data and legacy data are key to ensure the best seismic quality possible. To determine each source and receiver location, a demigration is performed followed by an optimum selection. This paper is demonstrating the importance of using such algorithms and not the CMP assumption, even in non-complex geological context on two practical examples. The impact of geological dips added with the streamer data orientation highlight the errors made when using this assumption. Also, by capitalizing on the legacy data, this technology ensures that the quality of the acquired trace will be optimal for CO2 detection.

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