Model for CO2 leakage including multiple geological layers and multiple leaky wells

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 743-749

  Nordboiten, Jan M ^a   Kavetski, Dmitri ^a   Celia, Michael A ^a   Bachu, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABANDONED WELLS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; AQUIFER STORAGES; CARBON STORAGES; DATA SETS; EDMONTON , ALBERTA; FIELD DATUM; FLUID DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOLOGICAL LAYERS; GEOLOGICAL STORAGES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENTS; LEAKAGE PATHS; LEAKAGE RATES; OIL AND GAS; OIL AND GAS EXPLORATIONS; PERMEABLE FORMATIONS; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCES; SEMI-ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; SOLUTION METHODS;

AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING;

OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; WELL WATER;

ABANDONED LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; AQUIFER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; LEAKAGE; MODELING; PERMEABILITY; PREDICTION; STORAGE; WELL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARBON STORAGE; LIQUID; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALBERTA; CANADA; EDMONTON; NORTH AMERICA;

ALGORITHMS; CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 61649128228     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801135v     Document Type: Article

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