Field-case simulation of CO2-plume migration using vertical-equilibrium models

Energy Procedia

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 3801-3808

  Nilsen, Halvor Moøll ^a   Herrera, Paulo A ^b   Ashraf, Meisam ^a,c   Ligaarden, Ingeborg ^a   Iding, Martin ^d   Hermanrud, Christian ^b,d   Lie, Knut Andreas ^a,b   Nordbotten, Jan M ^c,e   Dahle, Helge K ^c   Keilegavlen, Eirik ^c  

^a SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^b Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d STATOIL   (Norway)

^e Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ASPECT RATIO; GREENHOUSE GASES; HYDROGEOLOGY; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS;

COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; DEEP SALINE AQUIFERS; SPATIAL DIMENSIONALITIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; VERTICAL EQUILIBRIUMS; VERTICAL INTEGRATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 79955461564     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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