Cross-Well Seismic Monitoring of CO₂ Injected Into the A-1 Carbonate and Brown Niagaran Formations at the Chester 16 Reef

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1773343· OSTI ID:1773343

Gupta, Neeraj ^[1]; Kelley, Mark ^[2]; Kolb, Conrad ^[3]

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1. Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (United States); Battelle Memorial Institute
2. Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (United States)
3. Schlumberger, Houston, TX (United States)

The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) was founded in 2003 as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership initiative. Since its founding, MRCSP has made significant strides toward making CCUS a viable option for states in the region. The public/private consortium, funded through the DOE Regional Carbon Sequestration Initiative, brings together nearly 40 industry partners and 10 states. Battelle, as the project lead, oversees research, development and operations and coordinates activities among the partners. The incremental, phased approach has built a valuable knowledge base for the industry and paved the way for commercial-scale adoption of CCUS technologies. From 2008 to 2020, MRCSP Phase III focused on the development of large-scale injection projects. This report is part of a series of reports prepared under the Midwestern Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) Phase III (Development Phase). These reports summarize and detail the findings of the work conducted under the Phase III project. A cross-well seismic survey was acquired in the Chester 16 reef to attempt to locate 85,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) that were injected into the A-1 Carbonate and Brown Niagaran Formations earlier. The technique of conducting multiple cross-well seismic surveys over time, including a pre-CO₂ injection (baseline) survey, has been used elsewhere to monitor CO₂ injected into the subsurface. In this study, a baseline cross-well survey was not obtained; nevertheless, it was possible to generate an image that is a plausible representation of the CO₂ plume. This conclusion is supported by other monitoring and modeling results from the Chester 16 reef that provide an independent indication about the likely position of the injected CO₂.

• Research Organization: Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (United States); Schlumberger, Houston, TX (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE); National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL); Core Energy LLC; Ohio Development Services Agency
• DOE Contract Number: FC26-05NT42589
• OSTI ID: 1773343
• Report Number(s): DOE-BATTELLE--42589-CrosswellSeismic
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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