H21E:
Energy Development and Storage in the Subsurface: Modeling and Monitoring Challenges and Solution Strategies I Posters


Session ID#: 8811

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:  Beatrix Becker, University of Stuttgart, Dept. of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems, Stuttgart, Germany and Chris J. Ballentine, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Marc A Hesse, The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States

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:

Reservoir Characterization in an Underground Gas Storage Field Using Joint Inversion of Flow and Geodetic Data (65718)
Birendra Jha1, Francesca Bottazzi2, Rafal Wojcik3, Martina Coccia3, Noah Bechor3, Dennis McLaughlin4, Thomas Herring4, Bradford H Hager5, Stefano Mantica2 and Ruben Juanes6, (1)University of Southern California, Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Los Angeles, United States, (2)Eni, Milan, Italy, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Supercomputing with TOUGH2 family codes for coupled multi-physics simulations of geologic carbon sequestration (76609)
Hajime Yamamoto1, Kengo Nakajima2, Keni Zhang3 and Shinichi Nanai1, (1)Taisei Corporation, Yokohama, Japan, (2)The Univ Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
The Next Generation in Subsidence and Aquifer-System Compaction Modeling within the MODFLOW Software Family: A New Package for MODFLOW-2005 and MODFLOW-OWHM (82318)
Stanley A Leake1, Scott E Boyce2, Randall T Hanson2 and Devin Lynn Galloway3, (1)USGS Arizona Water Science Center, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)USGS California Water Science Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Solsberry, IN, United States
A coupled multi-physics modeling framework for induced seismicity (82806)
Satish Karra, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States and David Dempsey, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Modeling of Hydraulic Hractures with Poromechanical Coupling Using an Assumed Enhanced Strain Method (84524)
Wei Wang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Joshua A. White, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
A locally conservative non-negative finite element formulation for anisotropic advective-diffusive-reactive systems (85292)
Maruti Kumar Mudunuru, Mohammad Shabouei and Kalyana Nakshatrala, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Hybrid Upwind Discretization for the Implicit Simulation of Three-Phase Coupled Flow and Transport with Gravity (85488)
Francois P Hamon, TotalEnergies EP Research and Technology USA, Houston, United States, Bradley Mallison, Chevron Corporation San Ramon, San Ramon, CA, United States and Hamdi Tchelepi, Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
Effects of a Regional Aquifer on the Evolution of a Dense CO2-Charged Brine (63290)
Alexandra Maskell1, Katherine Daniels2, Michael J Bickle2 and Sam Pegler2, (1)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Simulation of Porous Medium Hydrogen Storage – Estimation of Storage Capacity and Deliverability for a North German anticlinal Structure (66159)
Sebastian Bauer1, Wolf Tilmann Pfeiffer2 and Bo Wang2, (1)Institute of Geosciences, Geohydromodeling, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
A Feasibility Study on Operating Large Scale Compressed Air Energy Storage in Porous Formations (69241)
Bo Wang1, Wolf Tilmann Pfeiffer1, Dedong Li1 and Sebastian Bauer2, (1)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)Institute of Geosciences, Geohydromodeling, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Assessing Compositional Variability and Migration of Natural Gas in the Antrim Shale in the Michigan Basin Using Noble Gas Geochemistry (70843)
Tao Wen1, M. Clara Castro2, Brian R Ellis3, Chris M Hall2 and Kyger C Lohmann4, (1)University of Michigan, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Noble gas partitioning behavior in the Sleipner Vest hydrocarbon field (72870)
Peter H Barry1, Michael Lawson2, Oliver Warr1, Jennifer Mabry1, David J Byrne1, William P Meurer2 and Chris J. Ballentine1, (1)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)Exxon Mobil Upstream Research, Houston, TX, United States
Position-Specific Hydrogen and Carbon Isotope Fractionations of Light Hydrocarbons by Quantitative NMR (75436)
Changjie Liu, Texas Tech University, Department of Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, Gregory P. Mcgovern, West Texas A&M University, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Canyon, TX, United States and Juske Horita, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States
Evaluation of the Coupling of a Full-Dimensional Multiphase Model with a Vertical Equilibrium Model for the Simulation of Underground Gas Storage (77655)
Beatrix Becker1, Rainer Helmig2, Bernd Flemisch2, Bo Guo, PhD3 and Michael A Celia3, (1)University of Stuttgart, Dept. of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems, Stuttgart, Germany, (2)University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, (3)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
The Noble Gas Record of Gas-Water Phase Interaction in the Tight-Gas-Sand Reservoirs of the Rocky Mountains (78549)
Chris J. Ballentine, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, Zheng Zhou, Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom and Nicholas B Harris, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Thermo-mechanical modelling of salt caverns due to fluctuating loading conditions. (80654)
Norbert Böttcher, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Flow-through column experiments to determine the geochemical behavior of common hydrological tracers (82645)
Prathap Santosh Narshima Moola1,2, Bergur Sigfússon2 and Andri Stefansson3, (1)University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, (2)Reykjavik Energy, Reykjavik, Iceland, (3)University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland

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