H24C:
Energy Development and Storage in the Subsurface: Modeling and Monitoring Challenges and Solution Strategies III


Session ID#: 10559

Session Description:
Energy storage is essential to establish a low-carbon, renewables-driven electric power system, where intermittency of supply is a major challenge. One promising large-scale storage option is energy storage in the subsurface, including both mechanical and chemical storage. This session focuses on the challenges associated with subsurface energy storage, especially systems involving subsurface gas storage (synthetic natural gas, hydrogen) and compressed air storage. The goal of this session is to identify key challenges and improve our understanding of the complex multiphase flow, multicomponent transport and geomechanical processes involved and help assess reservoir performance and optimization as well as risks associated with subsurface energy storage. Exemplar studies of interest include but are not limited to: modeling of transport and trapping mechanisms occurring on different scales (e.g. frequent pressure reversal, hysteresis), upscaling of processes and/or parameters, model coupling to enhance model efficiency, laboratory and field measurements.
Primary Convener:  Marc A Hesse, The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
Conveners:  Beatrix Becker, University of Stuttgart, Dept. of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems, Stuttgart, Germany, Domenico Bau, University of Sheffield, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Sheffield, United Kingdom and Chris J. Ballentine, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Pietro Teatini, University of Padua, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padua, Italy and Marc A Hesse, The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Domenico Bau, University of Sheffield, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
Index Terms:

1065 Major and trace element geochemistry [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1805 Computational hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
1873 Uncertainty assessment [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Theory of Gas Injection: Interaction of Phase Behavior and Flow (Invited) (62511)
Birol Dindoruk, Shell International E&P Inc, Houston, TX, United States
DISSOLUTION OF CO2 IN BRINES AND MINERAL REACTIONS DURING GEOLOGICAL CARBON STORAGE: AN EOR EXPERIMENT (67132)
Michael J Bickle1, Hazel Chapman1, Albert Galy2, Niko Kampman3, Benoît Dubacq4, Chris J. Ballentine5 and Zheng Zhou6, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Université de Lorraine - CNRS, CRPG Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France, (3)Shell Global Solutions International B.V., Rijswijk, Netherlands, (4)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France, (5)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (6)Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Evaluating the Competitive Use of the Subsurface: The Influence of Energy Storage and Production in Groundwater (77477)
Rainer Helmig1, Beatrix Becker1 and Bernd Flemisch2, (1)University of Stuttgart, Dept. of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems, Stuttgart, Germany, (2)University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Estimating Flow Properties from the Onset of Time-Lapse Changes (Invited) (68071)
Donald W Vasco, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Tracing natural gas transport into shallow groundwater using dissolved nitrogen and alkane chemistry in Parker County, Texas (69417)
Toti Larson, University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Jean-Philippe Nicot, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, Patrick John Mickler, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Roxana Darvari, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Water Resources Management for Shale Energy Development (Invited) (60963)
David Yoxtheimer, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Spatially Variable Compressibility Estimation Using the Ensemble Smoother with Bathymetry Observations: Application to the Maja Gas Reservoir (64342)
Claudia Zoccarato, University of Padova, Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padova, Italy, Domenico Bau, University of Sheffield, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Sheffield, United Kingdom and Pietro Teatini, University of Padua, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padua, Italy
Noble gas and hydrocarbon tracers in multiphase unconventional hydrocarbon systems: Toward integrated advanced reservoir simulators (74737)
Thomas Darrah1, Joachim Moortgat1, Robert J Poreda2, Karlis Muehlenbachs3 and Colin James Whyte1, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States, (3)University of Alberta, Earth and Atmopsheric Scdiences, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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