A coupled geomechanical reservoir simulation analysis of carbon dioxide storage in a saline aquifer in the Ohio River Valley

Environmental Geosciences

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 189-207

  Goodarzi, Somayeh ^a   Settari, Antonin ^a   Zoback, Mark ^a   Keith, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAP ROCK; CARBON DIOXIDE INJECTION; CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE; COAL-BURNING POWER PLANTS; CONSTANT-PRESSURE CONDITIONS; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; DYNAMIC FRACTURES; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; INDUCED STRESS; INJECTION RATES; INJECTIVITY; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; OHIO RIVER VALLEY; OPTIMAL INJECTION; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; SALINE AQUIFERS; SANDSTONE AQUIFER; SHEAR FAILURE; SIGNIFICANT SURFACES; SINGLE WELL; STORAGE UNITS; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS STATE; STRESS VARIATIONS; SURFACE DEFORMATION;

AQUIFERS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL STORAGE; DEFORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY;

WATER INJECTION;

AQUIFER; BASEMENT (BUILDING); CAP ROCK; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; DEFORMATION; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; GEOMECHANICS; HYDROMECHANICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESERVOIR; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; VALLEY;

OHIO VALLEY [PENNSYLVANIA-OHIO]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81855184378     PISSN: 10759565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/eg.04061111002     Document Type: Article

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