Pre-Injection Brine Production for Managing Pressure in Compartmentalized CO2 Storage Reservoirs

Energy Procedia

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 5333-5340

  Buscheck, Thomas A ^a   White, Joshua A ^a   Chen, Mingjie ^a   Sun, Yunwei ^a   Hao, Yue ^a   Aines, Roger D ^a   Bourcier, William L ^a   Bielicki, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brine production; Brine utilization; CO2 utilization; Desalination; Geologic CO2 storage; Monitoring wells; Reservoir management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922879632     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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