Model Development of the Aquistore CO2 Storage Project
The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, through the Energy & Environmental Research Center, is collaborating with Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) in site characterization; risk assessment; public outreach; and monitoring, verification, and accounting activities at the Aquistore project. The Aquistore project is a carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) project situated near Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, and the U.S.Canada border. This project is managed by PTRC and will serve as buffer storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the SaskPower Boundary Dam CCUS project, the worlds first commercial-scale postcombustion CCUS project from a coal-fired electric generating facility. To date, an injection well and an observation research well (~152 m apart) have been drilled and completed at the Aquistore site, with injection anticipated to begin in fourth quarter 2014. Using a combination of site characterization data provided by PTRC and independently acquired information, the PCOR Partnership has constructed a static geologic model to assess the potential volumetric storage capacity of the Aquistore site and provide the foundation for dynamic simulation of the dynamic storage capacity. The results of the predictive simulations will be used in the risk assessment process to help define an overall monitoring plan for the project and to assure stakeholders that the injected CO2 will remain safely stored at the Aquistore site.The deep saline system targeted for storage comprises the Deadwood and Black Island Formations, the deepest sedimentary units in the Williston Basin. At over 3150View/Download Document
Event/Meeting Information
PCOR Partnership 2014 Annual Membership Meeting
9/16/2014
Denver, CO