Simulation of industrial-scale CO2 storage: Multi-scale heterogeneity and its impacts on storage capacity, injectivity and leakage

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages 397-418

  Deng, Hailin ^a   Stauffer, Philip H ^a   Dai, Zhenxue ^a   Jiao, Zunsheng ^b   Surdam, Ronald C ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Injectivity; Leakage; Rock Springs Uplift; Storage capacity

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MARKOV CHAINS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROSITY; POWER PLANTS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SANDSTONE; SEISMOLOGY; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); WELLS;

ANALYSIS OF SIMULATIONS; FLUID PRESSURE GRADIENT; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC; INJECTIVITY; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STORAGE CAPACITY; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CAP ROCK; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FLUID INJECTION; LEAKAGE; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PROBABILITY; UNDERGROUND STORAGE;

ROCK SPRINGS; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 84864237715     PISSN: 17505836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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