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type     June, 2005

Vol 2 Chapter 13: Simulating CO2 Storage in Deep Saline Aquifers

Ajitabh Kumar, Myeong H. Noh, Gary A. Pope, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Steven L. Bryant and Larry W. Lake

Abstract: We present the results of compositional reservoir simulation of a prototypical CO2 storage project in a deep saline aquifer. The objective was to better understand and quantify estimates of the most important CO2 storage mechanisms under realistic physical conditions. Simulations of a few decades of CO2 injection followed by 103–105 years of natural gradient flow were done. The impact of several parameters was studied, including average permeability, the ratio of vertical to horizontal permeability, residual gas saturation, salinity, temperature, aquifer dip angle, permeability heterogeneity and mineralization. The storage of CO2 in residual gas emerges as a potentially very significant issue meriting further study. Under some circumstances this form of immobile storage can be larger than storage in brine and minerals.

Carbon Dioxide Capture for Storage in Deep Geologic Formations – Results from the CO2 Capture Project Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide with Monitoring and Verification - Volume 2
Edited by:
Sally M. Benson, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

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