Pressure Buildup and Brine Migration During CO2 Storage in Multilayered Aquifers

GroundWater

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 252-267

  Cihan, Abdullah ^a   Birkholzer, Jens T ^a   Zhou, Quanlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER-AQUITARD SYSTEM; CARBON DIOXIDE INJECTION; DEEP SALINE FORMATIONS; EFFECTIVE PRESSURE; MULTI-LAYERED AQUIFER; MULTI-LAYERED SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION STUDIES; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; TWO PHASE FLOW; WATER INJECTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GROUND WATER; SEA WATER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; AQUIFER; AQUITARD; BRINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLUID FLOW; FORMATION MECHANISM; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; LEAKAGE; OPTIMIZATION; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE FIELD; SHALLOW WATER; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; PRESSURE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GROUNDWATER; PRESSURE; SEAWATER;

EID: 84874934014     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00972.x     Document Type: Article

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