Integrated Monitoring Program for a Combined CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage Project in the Bell Creek Oil Field
Category: Reservoir Monitoring and ManagementThe Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, led by the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), is working with Denbury Onshore LLC (Denbury) to determine the effect of a large-scale injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) into a deep clastic reservoir for the purpose of simultaneous CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and CO2 storage at the Denbury-owned Bell Creek oil field. CO2 will be injected into an oil-bearing sandstone reservoir in the Lower Cretaceous Muddy Formation at a depth of approximately 4500 feet (1372 meters). The Muddy Formation within the boundaries of the Bell Creek oil field is characterized by high permeability (425-1175 mD) and high porosity (25%-35%), with reservoir pressures and temperatures that will maintain injected CO2 in a supercritical state and are near conditions required for miscibility of CO2 in the oil. The activities at Bell Creek will inject an estimated 1.1 million tons of CO2 annually, most of which willView/Download Document
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International Petroleum Technology Conference 2013
3/26/2013
Beijing,