Identifying diagnostics for reservoir structure and CO2 plume migration from multilevel pressure measurements

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3462-3475

  Strandli, Christin W ^a   Benson, Sally M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

monitoring; multilevel pressure measurements; pressure gradients; pressure transients; well testing

Indexed keywords

CARBON CAPTURE; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MONITORING; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; WELL TESTING;

CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATIONS; DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE BUILD UP; PRESSURE RESPONSE; PRESSURE TRANSIENT; START OF INJECTIONS; STORAGE RESERVOIRS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONITORING; PRESSURE EFFECT; RESERVOIR; RIVER PLUME; RIVER POLLUTION;

EID: 84881068217     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20285     Document Type: Article

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