Layer spreading and dimming within the CO2 plume at the Sleipner Field in the North Sea

Energy Procedia

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 3254-3261

  Boait, Fran ^a   White, Nicky ^a   Chadwick, Andy ^b   Noy, David ^b   Bickle, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Seismic imaging; Sequestration; Sleipner; Time lapse

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE GASES; OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY;

3-D SEISMIC SURVEY; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; NORTH SEA; NUMERICAL FLOW MODELS; SEISMIC IMAGING; SEQUESTRATION; SLEIPNER; TIME-LAPSE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 79955449921     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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