T2Well/ECO2N Version 1.0: Multiphase and Non-Isothermal Model for Coupled Wellbore-Reservoir Flow of Carbon Dioxide and Variable Salinity Water

Software · Wed Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20180919.3· OSTI ID:1471565 · Code ID:18654

Oldenburg, Curt M ^[1]; Pruess, Karsten ^[1]; Wu, Yu-Shu ^[1]; Pan, Lehua ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

T2Well/ECO2N is a coupled wellbore and reservoir model for simulating the dynamics of CO2 injection and leakage through wellbores. It can be seen as an extension to standard TOUGH/ECO2N V2.0, and can be applied to situations relevant to geologic CO2 storage involving upward flow (e.g., leakage) and downward flow (injection). The new simulator integrates a wellbore-reservoir system by assigning the wellbore and reservoir to two different sub-domains in which flow is controlled by appropriate physical laws. In the reservoir, we model flow using a standard multiphase Darcy flow approach. In the wellbores, we use the Drift-Flux Model and related conservation equations for describing transient two-phase non-isothermal wellbore flow of CO2-water mixtures. The mass and thermal energy balance equations are solved numerically by a finite difference scheme with wellbore heat transmission to the surrounding rock handled either semi-analytically or numerically. The momentum balance equation for the flow in the wellbore is solved numerically with a semi-explicit scheme.

• Short Name / Acronym: T2Well/ECO2N Version 1.0
• Site Accession Number: CR-3133
• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE

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  Primary Award/Contract Number:

  AC02-05CH11231
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• Code ID: 18654
• OSTI ID: 1471565
• Country of Origin: United States