Well-based, geochemical leakage monitoring of an aquifer immediately above a CO2 storage reservoir by stable carbon isotopes at the Ketzin pilot site, Germany

Energy Procedia

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 346-354

  Nowak, Martin ^a   Myrttinen, Anssi ^a   Zimmer, Martin ^b   Wiese, Bernd ^b   Van Geldern, Robert ^a   Barth, Johannes A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Leakage; Overlying aquifer; Stable isotopes; Well based monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888345167     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.08.040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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