Baseline Soil Gas Monitoring at the Bell Creek Combined CO2 EOR 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) on an iterative approach to site characterization, modeling and predictive simulation, monitoring, and risk assessment at the Bell Creek oil field to evaluate the efficiency of a large-scale injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) for simultaneous CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and long-term CO2 storage (Gorecki and others, 2012). Initial injection of approximately 50 MMscf/day of CO2 into the Lower Cretacous Muddy Formation at a depth of 4,500 ft is anticipated to begin by mid-2013 as part of the combined CO2 EOR and CO2 storage project at the Denbury-operated Bell Creek oil field. The Bell Creek oil field covers approximately 22,000 acres and contains over 450 wellbores. Denbury will carry out the injection and production operations in a phased approach. As part of the EERC's iterative approach to monitoring a combined CO2View/Download Document
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Carbon Management Technology Conference 2013
10/21/2013
Alexandria, VA