Seal evaluation and confinement screening criteria for beneficial carbon dioxide storage with enhanced coal bed methane recovery in the Pocahontas Basin, Virginia

International Journal of Coal Geology

Volumn 90-91, Issue , 2012, Pages 110-125

  Grimm, Ryan P ^a   Eriksson, Kenneth A ^a   Ripepi, Nino ^a   Eble, Cortland ^b   Greb, Stephen F ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachian Basin; Carbon dioxide; Carbon sequestration; Enhanced coal bed methane; Seal characterization

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIAN BASIN; CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLAY MATRIX; COAL SEAMS; COALBED METHANES; COALBEDS; CONFINEMENT PROPERTIES; ENHANCED COAL BED METHANE; ENHANCED COAL BED METHANE RECOVERIES; GEOLOGICAL STORAGE; GEOPHYSICAL LOGS; INTERCONNECTED POROSITY; LOW PERMEABILITY; MATRIX GRAINS; MATRIX PERMEABILITY; MERCURY INJECTION; MICROFABRIC; MODERATELY THICK; NARROW PORES; OVERLYING STRATA; PENNSYLVANIAN COALS; PHASE II; PORE-THROAT SIZE; POROSIMETRY; QUARTZ GRAINS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SECONDARY STORAGE; SILTSTONES; STANDARD MEASUREMENTS; VIRGINIA;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEMENTS; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; COAL STORAGE; GREENHOUSE GASES; MERCURY (METAL); METAL RECOVERY; NATURAL GAS WELLS; PETROGRAPHY; POROSITY; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHALE;

METHANE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CEMENTATION; COAL SEAM; COALBED METHANE; GREENHOUSE GAS; LITHOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; PETROGRAPHY; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHALE;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; POCAHONTAS COUNTY [WEST VIRGINIA]; UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 84856398977     PISSN: 01665162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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