H51U:
Risk Assessment and Monitoring Techniques for Geological CO2 Sequestration I


Session ID#: 10562

Session Description:
Carbon dioxide capture & storage (CCS) has been considered as a promising option to mitigate impacts of climate change by reduction of CO2 emissions. Numerical simulations, geostatistical approaches, and reduced order models are becoming common tools for CCS projects to quantify uncertainties and design appropriate monitoring plans. This session seeks contributions focused on CCS risk assessment and monitoring techniques. Topics include: (1) multi-phase flow and reactive transport simulations for risk assessment strategy development and monitoring design; (2) uncertainty quantification methods, especially for reservoir pressure management, CO2 migration forecasting, risks of CO2 leakage or associated impacts in all parts of the geologic CCS system, (3) advanced methods and techniques for qualitative and quantitative risk assessment and monitoring of CCS projects;  (4) comprehensive, system-level risk assessment incorporating technical and operational (or programmatic) aspects of CCS projects, and (5) approaches for using monitoring data to reduce uncertainty in predictive modeling and risk assessment.
Primary Convener:  Grant S Bromhal, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Conveners:  Brian J O L McPherson, Univ Utah, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Seyyed Abolfazl Hosseini, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Changbing Yang, the University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States
Chairs:  Grant S Bromhal, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Brian J O L McPherson, Univ Utah, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Feng Pan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Seyyed Abolfazl Hosseini, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Feng Pan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • G - Geodesy
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

1805 Computational hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1848 Monitoring networks [HYDROLOGY]
1873 Uncertainty assessment [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Applications of Reduced Order Models for Groundwater Impacts Due to Leaking Brine or Carbon Dioxide (Invited) (60985)
Diana Holford Bacon1, Elizabeth H Keating2, Susan Carroll3, Kayyum Mansoor3, Yunwei Sun3, Liange Zheng4, Dylan R Harp2 and Zhenxue Dai5, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Jilin University, College of Construction Engineering, Changchun, China
A Multi-scale Approach for CO2 Accounting and Risk Analysis in CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery Sites (Invited) (64690)
Zhenxue Dai1, Hari Selvi Viswanathan2, Richard Stephen Middleton2, Feng Pan3, William Ampomah4, Changbing Yang5, Wei Jia3, Si-Yong Lee6, Brian J O L McPherson7, Reid Grigg8 and Mark D White9, (1)Jilin University, College of Construction Engineering, Changchun, China, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, United States, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (6)Schlumberger Carbon Services, Denver, CO, United States, (7)Univ Utah, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (8)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Petroleum Recovery Research Center, Socorro, NM, United States, (9)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Risk Assessment and Monitoring Techniques for Geological CO2 sequestration  (83699)
Robert M. Dilmore1, Rajesh Pawar2, Grant S Bromhal1, George D Guthrie Jr3, Phil H Stauffer4, Shaoping Chu3 and Curtis M Oldenburg5, (1)National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
Determining the Area of Review (AoR) in Carbon Capture and Storage: A tiered, probabilistic methodology to generate risk map (79910)
Abdullah Cihan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, United States, Erica R Siirila-Woodburn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States and Jens T Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Modeling, Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis of Subsurface Fluid Migration in the Above Zone Monitoring Interval of a Geologic Carbon Storage (65210)
Argha Namhata1,2, Robert M. Dilmore3, Sergey Oladyshkin4, Liwei Zhang2 and David V. Nakles5, (1)Carnegie Mellon University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (3)National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (4)University of Stuttgart, Stochastic Simulation and Safety Research for Hydrosystems (IWS/SC SimTech), Stuttgart, Germany, (5)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Post-injection Multiphase Flow Modeling and Risk Assessments for Subsurface CO2 Storage in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (69693)
Guohai Jin, Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Robust CO2 Injection: Application of Bayesian-Information-Gap Decision Theory (83075)
Matthew Grasinger, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Daniel O'Malley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences (EES-16), Los Alamos, NM, United States, Dr. Velimir monty V Vesselinov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Satish Karra, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Pressurization Risk Assessment of CO2 Reservoirs Utilizing Design of Experiments and Response Surface Methods (63403)
Ethan Guyant1, Weon Shik Han1, Kue-Young Kim2, Eungyu Park3 and Kyungdoe Han4, (1)University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States, (2)KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, (3)Kyungpook National University, Department of Geology, Daegu, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, United States

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