Velocity measurements in reservoir rock samples from the SACROC unit using various pore fluids, and integration into a seismic survey taken before and after a CO2 sequestration flood

Energy Procedia

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2323-2331

  Purcell, Christopher ^a,b   Harbert, William ^a,b   Soong, Yee ^a   McLendon, T Robert ^a   Haljasmaa, Igor V ^a   McIntyre, Dustin ^a   JiKich, Jay ^c  

^a NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c RDS   (United States)

Author keywords

CO2; Computer Tomography; P, SH, SV elastic wave velocity; Rock Physics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL MEASUREMENTS; BEFORE AND AFTER; BEREA SANDSTONE; CENTRAL TEXAS; CO2; COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CONFINING PRESSURES; CORE MATERIAL; CT SCANNERS; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; IN-SITU; LIQUID CO; P, SH, SV ELASTIC WAVE VELOCITY; P- AND S-WAVES; PERMIAN; POISSON'S RATIO; PORE FILLING; PORE FLUIDS; REFLECTION SEISMIC; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; RESERVOIR ROCK; RESIDUAL SATURATION; ROCK PHYSICS; SEISMIC SURVEYS; STRESS AND STRAIN; UNSTRESSED SAMPLES; WAVE FORMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CAPILLARITY; COREMAKING; ELASTICITY; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOODS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POISSON RATIO; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SODIUM; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER INJECTION; WAVES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 67650148502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18766102     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2009.01.302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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