H11B:
Deep Boreholes and Wellbores: Monitoring, Modeling, and Mitigation I Posters


Session ID#: 8608

Session Description:
Deep drilling in crystalline rock poses unique engineering and scientific challenges, expanding our understanding of conditions and processes relevant to deep borehole radioactive waste disposal and scientific continental drilling. We seek submissions related to the siting, drilling, geophysical characterization, in situ characterization/testing methods, and permanent closure of deep boreholes. Descriptions of prospective work and summaries or interpretation of existing data are welcomed. Topics may include hydrogeology of low-permeability rock, geomechanical considerations of deep boreholes, geochemistry of deep brines, collection methods for, and/or interpretation of noble gases and other environmental tracers, advanced borehole/crosshole/vertical-profile geophysical data collection or interpretation methods, and strategies and materials for sealing disposal boreholes.
Primary Convener:  Mary Kang, McGill University, Department of Civil Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Jens T Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and David Sassani, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Chairs:  Joao Paulo Pereira Nunes, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Kristopher L Kuhlman, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Mary Kang, McGill University, Department of Civil Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Kristopher L Kuhlman, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

0915 Downhole methods [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
1020 Composition of the continental crust [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
5114 Permeability and porosity [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Geoscientific Site Evaluation Approach for Canada’s Deep Geological Repository for Used Nuclear Fuel (64723)
Sarah Hirschorn1, Mahrez Ben Belfadhel2 and Maria Sanchez-Rico Castejon1, (1)Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)Nuclear Waste Management Organ, Toronto, ON, Canada
Geomechanical Considerations for the Deep Borehole Field Test (66178)
Byoung-Yoon Park, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Ceramic Borehole Seals for Nuclear Waste Disposal Applications (69706)
Bill Lowry1, Ken Coates1, Ken Wohletz1, Sandra Dunn1, Ed Patera1, Andrew Duguid2, Bill Arnold1, George Zyvoloski3, Lori Groven4 and Kuanysh Kuramyssova4, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Battelle Columbus, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rapid City, SD, United States
Site Guidelines for a Deep Borehole Field Test (69989)
David Sassani1, Kristopher L Kuhlman2, Geoff A. Freeze1, Robert James MacKinnon1 and Frank Perry3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Experimental Investigation of Near-Borehole Crack Plugging with Bentonite (70250)
Rachel Asit Upadhyay1, Mohammad Nurul Islam1,2 and Andrew Bunger3, (1)University of Pittsburgh, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia, (3)University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States
The derivation of an anisotropic velocity model from a combined surface and borehole seismic survey at the COSC-1 borehole, central Sweden (71897)
Helge Simon1, Felix Krauß2, Peter Hedin3, Stefan Buske1, Ruediger Giese2, Christopher Juhlin4 and Vera Lay1, (1)TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, (4)Uppsala University, Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Determining and quantifying specific sources of light alkane (Invited) (72672)
Markus Bill, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States and Mark E Conrad, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States
Numerical Modeling of Deep Borehole Disposal Performance: Influence of Regional Hydrology (73422)
Emily R Stein1, Glenn E Hammond2, Geoff A. Freeze1 and Teklu Hadgu3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Applied Systems Analysis & Research, Albuquerque, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research and Analysis, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Bouncing Core Barrels: Measuring Elastic Rebound In Recovering Inner Core Barrels From 7000+ mBRT. (76716)
Sean Toczko, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Institute for Marine-Earth Exploration and Engineering (MarE3), Kanagawa, Japan, Patrick M Fulton, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Yuichi Shinmoto, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, CDEX, Kanagawa, Japan, Lena Maeda, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan and Simon Judge, Mantle Quest Japan, Tokyo, Japan
An Assessment of Risk of Migration of Hydrocarbons or Fracturing Fluids to Fresh Water Aquifers: Wattenberg Field, CO (79527)
William W Fleckenstein, Alfred William Eustes, Carver Stone and Peter Howell, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
Numerical Investigation of Secondary Capture of CO2 Leakage in Permeable Stratigraphic Layers Within Caprock (80104)
Dylan R Harp, Rajesh Pawar, Jaileen Del Valle Maldonado and James W Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Modeling Methane Leakage from Faulty Wellbores in the Denver-Julesburg Basin, Colorado (80626)
Greg Lackey1, Harihar Rajaram2, Satish Karra3, Owen Sherwood4 and Troy L Burke1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Estimating Depth and Producing Formations of Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Using Geospatial Analysis (80924)
Shanna Christian, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Mary Kang, McGill University, Department of Civil Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada, Michael A Celia, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Adam C Maloof, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Denise L. Mauzerall, Princeton University, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept., Princeton, NJ, United States
Deep Boreholes Seals Subjected to High P,T conditions – Proposed Experimental Studies (82387)
Florie Caporuscio, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Geospatial Analysis of Oil and Gas Wells in California (84343)
Nicholas S Riqueros, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Mary Kang, McGill University, Department of Civil Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Impact of Thermal Stresses on Wellbore Integrity during CO2 Injection (84817)
Pratanu Roy1, Stuart D. C. Walsh2, Joseph Morris1, Susan Carroll1, Yue Hao1, Jaisree Iyer1, Malin Torsater3, Kamila Gawel3 and Jelena Todorovic3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (3)SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway

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