A Workflow to Determine CO2 Storage Potential in Deep Saline Formations
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has gained interest over the past decade as a potential technology for mitigating anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to the atmosphere. In order to achieve significant reductions, billions of tonnes of CO2 need to be stored each year, thus creating the need for vast storage capacity. Deep saline formations are expected to have the largest storage potential because of their size and geographic distributions. The United States and Canada alone have an estimated CO2 storage resource potential for 2102 of 20,043 billion tonnes in deep saline formations (U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory [DOE NETL] 2012). Because of the great need for CO2 storage and the wide range of storage resource potential, it is important to accurately estimate the effective volumetric CO2 storage resource potential of a target formation. The effective CO2 storage resource potential of a targeted saline formation is typically estimated using a volumetric equation where the pore volume of the target formation is multiplied by a storage efficiency term and the density of the CO2View/Download Document
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12th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies
10/5/2014
Austin, TX