CO2 storage potential at Forties oilfield and the surrounding Paleocene sandstone aquifer accounting for leakage risk through abandoned wells

Energy Procedia

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 5164-5171

  Babaei, Masoud ^a   Govindan, Rajesh ^a   Korre, Anna ^a   Shi, Ji Quan ^a   Durucan, Sevket ^a   Quinn, Martyn ^b   McCormac, Mike ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84922901558     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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