Characteristics of Salt-Precipitation and the Associated Pressure Build-Up during CO 2 Storage in Saline Aquifers

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 397-418

  Kim, Kue Young ^a   Han, Weon Shik ^b   Oh, Junho ^a   Kim, Taehee ^a   Kim, Jeong Chan ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

CO 2 sequestration; Injectivity; Saline aquifers; Salt precipitation; Skin zone

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE PRESSURE; BOTTOMHOLE; BUOYANCY EFFECT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DRY-OUT; DYNAMIC PROCESS; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; FAR FIELD; HIGH PERMEABILITY FORMATION; HIGH RATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INJECTION RATES; INJECTION WELLS; INJECTIVITY; LOCAL REGION; LOW PERMEABILITY; LOW RATES; NON-LOCALIZED; PLUME MIGRATION; PRESSURE BUILD UP; SALINE AQUIFERS; SALT PRECIPITATION; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; TEST CASE; TRANSMISSIVITY; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES;

AQUIFERS; BOTTOM HOLE PRESSURE; BUOYANCY; CARBON DIOXIDE; FLOWING WELLS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); OIL WELL FLOODING;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

BOREHOLE STABILITY; BOTTOM PRESSURE; BRINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PRESSURE FIELD; SALT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSIVITY;

EID: 84857788651     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9909-4     Document Type: Article

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