InSAR Monitoring to Evaluate Surface Changes with CO₂ Storage in a Depleted Oil Field in Northern Michigan (Volume II.E)

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

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1773424· OSTI ID:1773424

Place, Matthew ^[1]; Banwell, Marie-Josée ^[2]; Falorni, Giacomo ^[2]; Gupta, Neeraj ^[3]

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1. Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (United States); Battelle Memorial Institute
2. TRE Altamira, Inc., Vancouver, BC (Canada)
3. Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (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. This report describes the effort under MRCP to evaluate the potential use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) for monitoring the outcome of injected CO₂ at the Dover 33 reef near Gaylord, Michigan. InSAR is a satellite-based technology that provides high-precision information on the movement of ground surface in areas with high radar coherence (e.g., roads, buildings, bare soils). Depending on the setting, this technique may provide a useful tool for characterizing reservoirs by measuring surface deformations from activities such as brine water disposal; production of water, oil, and/or gas; and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS).

• Research Organization: National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States); Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE); Core Energy, LLC
• DOE Contract Number: FC26-05NT42589
• OSTI ID: 1773424
• Report Number(s): DOE-BATTELLE-42589-INSAR
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
58 GEOSCIENCES
ACR
Artificial Corner Reflector
Average Deformation
Cumulative Deformation
Displacement
Distributed Scatterers
Dover 33
GIS
Geographic Information System
INSAR
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
Permanent Scatterers
Radar
SqueeSAR
Subsidence
Surface Deformation
Uplift