A three-phase four-component streamline-based simulator to study carbon dioxide storage

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 493-509

  Qi, Ran ^a   Laforce, Tara C ^b   Blunt, Martin J ^b  

^a Chevron   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillary trapping; Carbon dioxide; CO 2 storage; CO2 water mutual dissolution; Salt precipitation; Streamline based simulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; AQUEOUS PHASIS; BRINE INJECTION; CAPILLARY TRAPPING; CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE; CO2/WATER MUTUAL DISSOLUTION; HYDROCARBON PHASE; MUTUAL DISSOLUTION; NON-WETTING; NORTH SEA; OIL RECOVERIES; OIL RESERVOIRS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; PHASE SATURATIONS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY HYSTERESIS; RESERVOIR DESCRIPTION; RESERVOIR MODELS; SALT PRECIPITATION; STORAGE EFFICIENCY; SUB-GRIDS; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TRAPPING MODEL; TWO PHASIS; TWO-COMPONENT; VISCOUS FINGERING;

AQUIFERS; CAPILLARITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DISSOLUTION; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYSTERESIS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SIMULATORS; SOLAR RADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

WATER INJECTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DISSOLUTION; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FLUID INJECTION; GAS STORAGE; HYDROCARBON; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SIMULATOR; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 72449202680     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-009-9139-9     Document Type: Article

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