Design of carbon dioxide storage in a north sea aquifer using streamline-based simulation

SPE Annual Technical Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1409-1415

  Qi, Ran ^a,b   Beraldo, Valcir ^a,c   LaForce, Tara ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a,b  

^a SPE   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE; POROUS ROCKS; STREAMLINE-BASED SIMULATION;

AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROPS; POROUS MATERIALS; ROCKS;

STORAGE (MATERIALS);

EID: 40349090023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/109905-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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