Capillary heterogeneity trapping of CO2 in a sandstone rock at reservoir conditions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Krevor, Samuel C M ^a   Pini, Ronny ^a   Li, Boxiao ^a   Benson, Sally M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; OIL WELL FLOODING; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; SANDSTONE;

CAPILLARY BARRIERS; CAPILLARY ENTRY PRESSURE; HIGH PERMEABILITY; HIGH-PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURES; INDUSTRIAL SOURCES; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; SIMULATION STUDIES; STEEL MANUFACTURING;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CAPILLARITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; HETEROGENEITY; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PORE PRESSURE; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER PLANT; RESERVOIR ROCK; SANDSTONE;

EID: 80051775866     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048239     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Akin, S., and A. R. Kovscek (2003), Computed tomography in petroleum engineering research, In Applications ofX-Ray Computed Tomography in the Geosciences, vol. 215, edited by S. Akin and A. R. Kovscek, pp. 23-38, Geol. Soc, London. (Pubitemid 37124152)
2. Altundas, Y. B., T. S. Ramakrishnan, N. Chugunov, and R. de Loubens (2010), Retardation of CO2 due to capillary pressure hysteresis: A new CO2 trapping mechanism, paper presented at International Conference on CO2 Capture, Storage and Utilization, Soc. of Pet. Eng., New Orleans, La.
3. Benson, S. M., et al. (2005), Underground geologic storage: IPCC special report on carbon dioxide capture and storage, chap. 5, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.
4. Chadwick, A., R. Arts, O. Eiken, P. Williamson, and G. Williams (2006), Geophyiscal monitoring of the CO2 plume at sleipner, North Sea, in Advances in the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide: International Approaches to Reduce Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions, edited by S. Lombardi et al., pp. 303-314, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
5. Chiquet, P., D. Broseta, and S. Thibeau (2007), Wettability alteration of caprock minerals by carbon dioxide, Geofluids, 7, 112-122. (Pubitemid 46647808)
6. Doughty, C, and K. Pruess (2004), Modeling supercritical carbon dioxide injection in heterogeneous porous media, Vadose Zone J., 3, 837-847.
7. Espinoza, D. N., and J. C. Sanamarina (2010), Water-CO2-mineral systems: Interfacial tension, contact angle, and diffusion-Implications to CO2 geological storage, Water Resour. Res., 46, W07537, doi:10.1029/2009WR008634.
8. Green, C. P., and J. Ennis-King (2010), Effect of vertical heterogeneity on long-term migration of CO2 in saline formations, Transp. Porous Media, 82, 31-47.
9. Hesse, M. A., and A. W. Woods (2010), Buoyant dispersal of CO2 during geological storage, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L01403, doi:10.1029/2009GL041128.
10. Hesse, M. A., F. M. Orr Jr., and H. A. Tchelepi (2008), Gravity currents with residual trapping, J. Fluid Mech., 611, 35-60.
11. Juanes, R., E. J. Spiteri, F. M. Orr Jr., and M. J. Blunt (2006), Impact of relative permeability hysteresis on geological CO2 storage, Water Resour. Res., 42, W12418, doi:10.1029/2005WR004806. (Pubitemid 46188241)
12. Krause, M., J-C. Perrin, and S. M. Benson (2011), Modeling permeability distributions in a sandstone core for history matching coreflood experiments, SPE J., in press.
13. Lake, L. W. (1989), Enhanced Oil Recovery, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J.
14. Land, C. S. (1968), Calculation of imibition relative permeability for two and thre-phase flow from rock properties, SPE J., 8 149-156.
15. Lenormand, R., C. Zarcone, and A. Sarr (1983), Mechanism of the displacement of one fluid by another in a network of capillary ducts, J. Fluid Mech., 135, 337-353. (Pubitemid 14504781)
16. Michael, K., A. Golab, V. Shulakova, J. Ennis King, G. Allison, S. Sharma, and T. Aiken (2010), Geological storage of CO2 in saline aquifers: A review of the experience from existing storage operations, Int. J. Greenhouse Gas Control, 4, 659-667.
17. Mouche, E., M. Hayek, and C. Mügler (2010), Upscaling of CO2 vertical migration through a periodic layered porous medium: The capillary-free and capillary-dominant cases, Adv. Water Resour., 33, 1164-1175.
18. Pentland, C. H., R. El-Maghraby, S. Iglauer, and M. J. Blunt (2011), Measurements of the capillary trapping of super-critical carbon dioxide in berea sandstone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L06401, doi:10.1029/2011GL046683.
19. Perrin, J.-C., and S. Benson (2009), An experimental study on the influence of sub-core scale heterogeneities on CO2 distribution in reservoir rocks, Transp. Porous Media, 82, 93-109.
20. Pruess, K. (2005), ECO2N: A TOUGH2 fluid property module for mixtures of water, NaCl, and CO2, Rep. 57952, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab., Washington, D. C.
21. Pruess, K., C. M. Oldenburg, and G. Moridis (1999), TOUGH2 user's guide, version 2.0, Rep. 43134, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab., Washington, D. C.
22. Saadatpoor, E., S. L. Bryant, and K. Sepehrnoori (2009), New trapping mechanism in carbon sequestration, Transp. Porous Media, 82, 3-17.
23. Silin, D., T. W. Patzek, and S. M. Benson (2009), A one-dimensional model of vertical gas plume migration through a heterogeneous porous medium, Int. J. Greenhouse Gas Control, 3, 300-310.
24. Spiteri, E. J., R. Juanes, M. J. Blunt, and F. M. Orr (2008), A new model of trapping and relative permeability hysteresis for all wettability characteristics, SPE J., 13, 277-288.
25. Thunderhead Engineering (2007), Petrasim user manual, version 4.
26. U.S. Department of Energy (2010), Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United States and Canada, 3rd ed., Washington, D. C.