Measuring and Modeling Fault Density for Plume-Fault Encounter Probability Estimation
Abstract
Emission of carbon dioxide from fossil-fueled power generation stations contributes to global climate change. Storage of this carbon dioxide within the pores of geologic strata (geologic carbon storage) is one approach to mitigating the climate change that would otherwise occur. The large storage volume needed for this mitigation requires injection into brine-filled pore space in reservoir strata overlain by cap rocks. One of the main concerns of storage in such rocks is leakage via faults. In the early stages of site selection, site-specific fault coverages are often not available. This necessitates a method for using available fault data to develop an estimate of the likelihood of injected carbon dioxide encountering and migrating up a fault, primarily due to buoyancy. Fault population statistics provide one of the main inputs to calculate the encounter probability. Previous fault population statistics work is shown to be applicable to areal fault density statistics. This result is applied to a case study in the southern portion of the San Joaquin Basin with the result that the probability of a carbon dioxide plume from a previously planned injection had a 3% chance of encountering a fully seal offsetting fault.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- Earth Sciences Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1016011
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-4538E
TRN: US201112%%377
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: Journal Publication Date: 2011
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54; 58; CAP ROCK; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATES; CLIMATIC CHANGE; GEOLOGIC STRATA; MITIGATION; PLUMES; POWER GENERATION; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SITE SELECTION; STATISTICS; STORAGE
Citation Formats
Jordan, P D, Oldenburg, C M, and Nicot, J -P. Measuring and Modeling Fault Density for Plume-Fault Encounter Probability Estimation. United States: N. p., 2011.
Web. doi:10.2172/1016011.
Jordan, P D, Oldenburg, C M, & Nicot, J -P. Measuring and Modeling Fault Density for Plume-Fault Encounter Probability Estimation. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1016011
Jordan, P D, Oldenburg, C M, and Nicot, J -P. 2011.
"Measuring and Modeling Fault Density for Plume-Fault Encounter Probability Estimation". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1016011. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1016011.
@article{osti_1016011,
title = {Measuring and Modeling Fault Density for Plume-Fault Encounter Probability Estimation},
author = {Jordan, P D and Oldenburg, C M and Nicot, J -P},
abstractNote = {Emission of carbon dioxide from fossil-fueled power generation stations contributes to global climate change. Storage of this carbon dioxide within the pores of geologic strata (geologic carbon storage) is one approach to mitigating the climate change that would otherwise occur. The large storage volume needed for this mitigation requires injection into brine-filled pore space in reservoir strata overlain by cap rocks. One of the main concerns of storage in such rocks is leakage via faults. In the early stages of site selection, site-specific fault coverages are often not available. This necessitates a method for using available fault data to develop an estimate of the likelihood of injected carbon dioxide encountering and migrating up a fault, primarily due to buoyancy. Fault population statistics provide one of the main inputs to calculate the encounter probability. Previous fault population statistics work is shown to be applicable to areal fault density statistics. This result is applied to a case study in the southern portion of the San Joaquin Basin with the result that the probability of a carbon dioxide plume from a previously planned injection had a 3% chance of encountering a fully seal offsetting fault.},
doi = {10.2172/1016011},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1016011},
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year = {Sun May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Sun May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
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