Citronelle Dome: A giant opportunity for multizone carbon storage and enhanced oil recovery in the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin of Alabama

Environmental Geosciences

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 53-62

  Esposito, Richard A ^a   Pashin, Jack C ^b   Walsh, Peter M ^c  

^a Southern Company Generation   (United States)

^b Geological Survey of Alabama   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ENHANCED RECOVERY; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; STORAGE (MATERIALS);

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANTICLINE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OIL FIELD; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SALT DOME;

ALABAMA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALABAMA; API GRAVITIES; CARBON SINK; CARBON STORAGE; CONTOUR MAP; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; HIGH POROSITY; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MARINE SHALES; MISSISSIPPI; MULTIZONE; OIL ACCUMULATION; OIL WATER CONTACT; ORIGINAL OIL IN PLACES; RESERVOIR-SEALS; STRUCTURAL CLOSURES;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DOMES; GRAVITATION; OIL FIELDS; OIL SHALE; PROVEN RESERVES; SANDSTONE; SHALE; SHALE OIL;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 51049096303     PISSN: 10759565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/eg.07250707012     Document Type: Article

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