H43K:
New Perspectives on CO2 Flow, Transport, and Long-Term Storage in Subsurface Reservoirs II


Session ID#: 10530

Session Description:
The flow, transport, and reaction of CO2 in subsurface formations is only partially understood. Existing knowledge/scientific gaps are evident from discrepancies between laboratory experiments, field scale observations and modeling results. Understanding the coupling of hydrological and geochemical processes is key to reliably predicting the fate, transport, and trapping of CO2 injected in deep subsurface formations. This session invites presentations that introduce new progress, perspectives, and developments that address knowledge gaps at the molecular, interfacial, pore, and continuum scales (including upscaling) affecting CO2 flow, transport and long-term storage. Topics can include recent advances in understanding equations of state, multiphase flow and mixing, interfacial phenomena (wettability and dynamic interfacial jumps), reservoir properties and heterogeneities (geochemical and mineralogical), pore structure transformations, caprocks (characterization, integrity, leakage through fractures), and characterization and transformation of well-bore cements under reservoir conditions. We especially welcome multi-faceted efforts that combine numerical, experimental, imaging, and field-scale investigations.
Primary Convener:  Shibo Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Lauren E Beckingham, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Megan M Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States and Charles J Werth, The University of Texas at Austin, Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, United States
Chairs:  Don DePaolo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Erik K Webb, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Charles J Werth, The University of Texas at Austin, Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1012 Reactions and phase equilibria [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1858 Rocks: chemical properties [HYDROLOGY]
3653 Fluid flow [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
3947 Surfaces and interfaces [MINERAL PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Recent Advances in Characterizing Depositional Facies and Pore Network Modeling in Context of Carbon Capture Storage: An Example from the Cambrian Mt. Simon Sandstone in the Illinois Basin (80309)
Jared T Freiburg1, Webb Nathan1, Jim Best2, Arjan Reesink3, Robert William Ritzi Jr4, Jamie Pendleton4, David F Dominic5, John Tudek6 and Amir Hossein Kohanpur7, (1)Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Departments of Mechanical Science and Engineering and Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory, Champaign, United States, (3)University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom, (4)Wright State Univ, Dayton, OH, United States, (5)Wright State University Main Campus, Dayton, OH, United States, (6)National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States, (7)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Spatial Persistence of Macropores and Authigenic Clays in a Reservoir Sandstone: Implications for Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage (83767)
Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Dissolution-precipitation reactions and permeability evolution from reactions of CO2-rich aqueous solutions with fractured basalt (81728)
Rachel K Wells1, Wei Xiong2, Yeunook Bae2, Erika Sesti2, Philip A Skemer2, Daniel Giammar2, Mark Conradi2, Brian R Ellis3 and Sophia Eugenie Hayes4, (1)University of Akron, Geosciences, Akron, OH, United States, (2)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Washington University in St Louis, Saint Louis, MO, United States
Fracture and Consequences of Caprock and Cement Observed by Integrated Triaxial Coreflood and X-ray Tomography (Invited) (60137)
James W Carey and Luke Frash, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Coupling stress and reactive transport in fractures: Effects on contacting asperities, permeability and stiffness (79816)
Kasparas Spokas1, Catherine A Peters2, Laura J Pyrak-Nolte3, Joseph Morris4, Jeffrey P Fitts2 and Hang Deng5, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Department of Earth, Atomospheric and Planetary Sciences; Lyles School of Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, United States, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Multi-scale X-ray Microtomography Imaging of Immiscible Fluids After Imbibition (80817)
Charlotte Garing1, Jacques de Chalendar2, Marco Voltolini3, Jonathan Blair Ajo-Franklin3 and Sally M Benson4, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (2)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
Permeability Evolution During Reactive Flow Experiments on Cores Under CO2 Sequestration Conditions and Development of Fully Coupled Reactive Flow Simulations at the Reservoir Scale (81879)
Martin O Saar1, Xiang-Zhao Kong1, Andrew J Luhmann2, Benjamin M Tutolo3 and William E Seyfried Jr4, (1)ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, United States, (3)University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada, (4)University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Evaluation of Advanced Reactive Surface Area Estimates for Improved Prediction of Mineral Reaction Rates in Porous Media (81794)
Lauren E Beckingham1, Elizabeth H. Mitnick2, Shuo Zhang3, Marco Voltolini1, Li Ao Yang Jr4, Carl I Steefel5, Alexander Swift6, David R Cole7, Julie Sheets8, Timothy J Kneafsey1, Gautier Landrot9, Lawrence M Anovitz10, Saeko Mito11, Ziqiu Xue12, Jonathan Blair Ajo-Franklin1 and Don DePaolo1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (7)Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (8)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (9)Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, (10)ORNL U Tennessee, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (11)RITE Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, Kyoto, Japan, (12)Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Kyoto, Japan

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