Drilling and sampling a natural CO2 reservoir: Implications for fluid flow and CO2-fluid-rock reactions during CO2 migration through the overburden

Chemical Geology

Volumn 369, Issue , 2014, Pages 51-82

  Kampman, N ^a,b,c   Bickle, M J ^a   Maskell, A ^a   Chapman, H J ^a   Evans, J P ^d   Purser, G ^c   Zhou, Z ^b   Schaller, M F ^e,f   Gattacceca, J C ^a   Bertier, P ^g   Chen, F ^a   Turchyn, A V ^a   Assayag, N ^a,h   Rochelle, C ^c   Ballentine, C J ^j   Busch, A ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

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Author keywords

CO2 geyser; Fault fluid flow; Fluid rock reaction; Geological carbon storage; Isotope geochemistry; Natural analogue

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893951431     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.11.015     Document Type: Article

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