Laboratory seismic monitoring of supercritical CO2 flooding in sandstone cores using the Split Hopkinson Resonant Bar technique with concurrent x-ray Computed Tomography imaging

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 254-269

  Nakagawa, Seiji ^a   Kneafsey, Timothy J ^a   Daley, Thomas M ^a   Freifeld, Barry M ^a   Rees, Emily V ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Attenuation; Monitoring; Rock physics

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ATTENUATION; BEDDED RESERVOIRS; COMPRESSIONAL; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; FRAME STIFFNESS; GEOLOGICAL SEQUESTRATION; INJECTION TEST; MEASUREMENTS OF; PORE FLUIDS; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; ROCK CORE; ROCK PHYSICS; SALINE AQUIFERS; SANDSTONE CORES; SEISMIC METHODS; SEISMIC MONITORING; SEISMIC PROPERTIES; SHEAR VELOCITIES; SPLIT-HOPKINSON; STRONG CONTRAST; SUPERCRITICAL CO; WAVE FREQUENCIES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY CT; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ANISOTROPY; AQUIFERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULI; MONITORING; ROCKS; SANDSTONE; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY; WATER INJECTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STIFFNESS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84873996016     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2478.12027     Document Type: Article

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