Baseline Soil Gas Monitoring at the Bell Creek Combined CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage Project
The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, led by the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota, is working with Denbury Resources Inc. (Denbury) to evaluate the efficiency of a large-scale injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) to study CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and longterm incidental CO2 storage at the Bell Creek oil field (Gorecki and others, 2012). The PCOR Partnership is using an iterative approach to site characterization, modeling and predictive simulation, monitoring, and risk assessment to demonstrate that incidental CO2 storage can be safely and permanently achieved on a commercial scale in conjunction with EOR. Soil gas monitoring is being carried out as one component of a CO2-monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA) program. The MVA program includes a wide variety of monitoring efforts covering surface water, groundwater, and a variety of deep subsurface monitoring techniques inaddition to the soil gas program. The primary objectives of baseline soil gas monitoring at Bell Creek are to 1) establish baseline concentrations and seasonal variations in soil gas chemistries across the Bell Creek Field, 2) generate a scientifically defensible data resource to evaluate any deviationfrView/Download Document
Event/Meeting Information
Carbon Management Technology Conference 2013
10/21/2013
Alexandria, VA