H41C:
New Perspectives on CO2 Flow, Transport, and Long-Term Storage in Subsurface Reservoirs I Posters


Session ID#: 9747

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, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
Chairs:  Lauren E Beckingham, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Megan M Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, Charles J Werth, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States and Shibo Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Megan M Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 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:

Estimating Interfacial Curvature To Assess The Impact Of Ostwald Ripening On The Stability Of Residually Trapped CO2 (84845)
Jacques de Chalendar, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Charlotte Garing, Stanford University, Stanford, United States and Sally M Benson, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, United States
The impact of reservoir conditions and rock heterogeneity on multiphase flow in CO2-brine-sandstone systems (79976)
Samuel C Krevor, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Catriona Anne Reynolds, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, Ali Al-Menhali, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom and Ben Niu, Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Hydrologic Responses to CO2 Injection in Basalts Based on Flow-through Experiments (86594)
Dana Thomas1, Ferdinand Hingerl2, Charlotte Garing3, Dennis K Bird4, Sally M Benson5 and Katharine Maher4, (1)Stanford University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (4)Stanford University, Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, United States
Reactive Transport Modeling of CO2-induced Porosity and Permeability Changes in Heterogeneous Carbonate Rocks (73408)
Yue Hao1, Megan M Smith2, Harris E Mason1 and Susan Carroll1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
An Integrated Approach to Predicting Carbon Dioxide Storage Capacity in Carbonate Reservoirs (85441)
Megan M Smith1, Yue Hao2, Harris E Mason2 and Susan Carroll2, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
From the Nano- to the Formation Scale: Accessible Reactive Surface Area in a CO2 Saline Reservoir (84404)
Alexander Swift, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, David R Cole, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Julia Meyer Sheets, The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States and Lawrence M Anovitz, ORNL U Tennessee, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
New Insights into Fracture Evolution in Rocks Relevant to the Geological Carbon Sequestration from In Situ Synchrotron X-ray Microtomography (67685)
Marco Voltolini1, Jonathan Blair Ajo-Franklin1 and Li Ao Yang Jr2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Wettability effect on capillary trapping of supercritical CO2 at pore-scale: micromodel experiment and numerical modeling (82022)
Ran Hu, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; Earth Science Divission, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Jiamin Wan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Supercritical CO2 Dissolution and Mass Transfer in a Heterogeneous Pore Network under Drainage and Imbibition Conditions (79767)
Chun Chang1, Quanlin Zhou2, Timothy J Kneafsey3, Mart Oostrom4, Thomas W Wietsma4 and Qingchun Yu5, (1)China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)China University of Geosciences, Beijing, Beijing, China
Evaluation of Seal Ability of a Multilayered Caprock System (77397)
Yi-Ting Chiu1, Cheng Yueh Wu1, Chien-Hao Shen1, Chi-Chung Tseng2 and Bieng-Zih Hsieh1, (1)NCKU National Cheng Kung University, Department of Resources Engineering, Tainan, Taiwan, (2)CPC Corporation, Taiwan, Miaoli, Taiwan
Modification of Fracture Apertures by Reactive Multiphase Flow (85243)
Zhenyu Xu, Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Julie Sheets, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Qingyun Li, Washington University in St. Louis, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, MO, United States, Timothy J Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, David R Cole, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Young-Shin Jun, Washington University in St Louis, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, MO, United States and Laura J Pyrak-Nolte, Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Department of Earth, Atomospheric and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States
Characterizing 3-D flow velocity in evolving pore networks driven by CaCO3 precipitation and dissolution (66489)
Kirsten N Chojnicki, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Hongkyu Yoon, Sandia National Laboratories, Geomechanics Department, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Mario J Martinez, Sandia National Laboratories, Engineering Science Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Low Temperature Reaction Experiments Between Basalt, Seawater and CO2, and Implications for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Deep-Sea Basalts (72096)
Damon A H Teagle, University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Chiara Marieni, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Juerg Michael Matter, University of Southampton, Ocean & Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
CO2 Wettability of the Mt. Simon Sandstone and Implications for Predicting Pore Scale Transport (69817)
Julien Botto, University of Texas at Austin, Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, Charles J Werth, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States and Albert J Valocchi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Evolution of Abnormally Low Pressure at Bravo Dome and its Implications for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) (68520)
Daria Akhbari, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Marc A Hesse, The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
Efficient Computational Methods for Modeling Fluid-Rock Interactions in Geologic CO2 Storage (71783)
Allan M. M. Leal1, Xiang-Zhao Kong1 and Martin O Saar2, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
Field-Scale Modeling of Local Capillary Trapping During CO2 Injection into a Saline Aquifer (67732)
Bo Ren1, Larry W Lake1 and Steven L Bryant2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Calgary, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Calgary, AB, Canada
Interpreting detailed brine chemistry changes during early periods of in-zone CO2 storage at Cranfield site, Mississippi, USA (70289)
Akand Islam1, Alexander Y Sun2 and Jiemin Lu1, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States
Simulations of Carbon Dioxide Storage and Methane Production from Guest Molecule Exchange of Hydrates Using Reactive Transport Modeling and Gibbs Energy Minimization (79821)
Kristopher Darnell, Kobold Metals, Berkeley, United States and Peter B Flemings, The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
CO2 Trapping in Reservoirs with Fluvial Architecture: Sensitivity to Heterogeneity and Hysteresis in Characteristic Relationships for Different Rock Types (78526)
Naum I Gershenzon1, Robert William Ritzi Jr2, David F Dominic1, Edward Mehnert3 and Roland T Okwen4, (1)Wright State University Main Campus, Dayton, OH, United States, (2)Wright State Univ, Dayton, OH, United States, (3)Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL, United States, (4)Univ of IL, Prairie Res Instit, Champaign, IL, United States
The impact of model complexity on CO2 saturation and mass balance (80561)
Edward Mehnert1, Naum I Gershenzon2, Amir Hossein Kohanpur3, Roland T Okwen4, Chris Patterson1, Robert William Ritzi Jr5, Albert J Valocchi6 and GSCO2, (1)Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL, United States, (2)Wright State University Main Campus, Dayton, OH, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)Univ of IL, Prairie Res Instit, Champaign, IL, United States, (5)Wright State Univ, Dayton, OH, United States, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Comparison of the Shan-Chen and Color-Fluid Models in Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media (67627)
Albert J Valocchi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Yu Chen, Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, Amir Hossein Kohanpur, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Jared T Freiburg, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL, United States
Gas injection into and migration through layered sedimentary sequences (81352)
Christopher W MacMinn1, Martino Foschi2, Bruce K Levell2 and Joe A Cartwright2, (1)University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Carbon Dioxide Mineralization in the Presence of Convective Mixing and the Capillary Transition Zone (79259)
Maria T Elenius, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway, Sara Farshidi, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, Denis Voskov, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands and Hamdi Tchelepi, Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
Investigation of caprock integrity during high-volume injection into the Utsira formation (71930)
Sarah E Gasda, Uni Research, CIPR, Bergen, Norway, Magnus Wangen, Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway and Tore Ingvald Bjørnarå, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway
Micro-PIV measurements of multiphase flow of water and supercritical CO2 in 2D heterogeneous porous micromodels (72510)
Yaofa Li1, Farzan Kazemifar2, Gianluca Blois2 and Kenneth T Christensen3, (1)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States, (2)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (3)University of Notre Dame, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Notre Dame, IN, United States
The impact of CO2 impurities (SO2, NOx, O2) on mineral dissolution/precipitation processes in a CO2 storage reservoir – Field-based results from the CO2CRC Otway Project site (66627)
Hong Phuc Vu1, Jay R Black1 and Ralf R Haese2, (1)University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (2)University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Geochemical tracers for monitoring fluid mixing during a CO2-water injection field test (65864)
Jay R Black, Hong Phuc Vu and Ralf R Haese, 1. Peter Cook Centre for CCS Research & School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne; 2. Cooperative Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies, CO2CRC, Melbourne, Australia
CO2 Migration in a Stratified Reservoir System under Sequestration Conditions (59220)
Kue-Young Kim1, Junho Oh2, Weon Shik Han3, Eungyu Park4 and Jeong-Chan Kim2, (1)KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)Korea Ist Geoscience & Min Res, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States, (4)Kyungpook National University, Department of Geology, Daegu, Korea, Republic of (South)
Impact of salinity on threshold pressure of mudstone in sealing integrity processes of CO2. (86780)
Takashi Fujii, AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan and Masao Sorai, Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage Technology Research Association, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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