Illitization in the Mt. Simon Sandstone, Illinois Basin, USA: Implications for carbon dioxide storage

Freiburg, Jared T.; Amer, Mahmoud; Henkel, Kevin; Wemmer, Klaus; Grathoff, Georg H.

doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105963

Illitization in the Mt. Simon Sandstone, Illinois Basin, USA: Implications for carbon dioxide storage

Journal Article · Tue Oct 11 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Marine and Petroleum Geology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105963· OSTI ID:2418101

^[1]; Amer, Mahmoud ^[2]; Henkel, Kevin ^[2]; Wemmer, Klaus ^[3]; Grathoff, Georg H. ^[2]

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); Univ. of Greifswald (Germany); OSTI
Univ. of Greifswald (Germany)
Univ. of Gottingen (Germany)

Clay mineral cementation is one of the most important controls on sandstone reservoir properties. Here, in this paper, the diagenetic history of the Mt. Simon reservoir complex is studied to reveal the origin, timing, and controls of illitization. Samples of sandstone and shale from Mt. Simon reservoir complex were acquired from the Illinois Basin–Decatur Project (IBDP), a CO₂ storage demonstration project in the central Illinois Basin. Petrographic, SEM, TEM, XRD analyses and K/Ar age dating were completed to identify the major detrital and diagenetic components of the samples and reveal illite to be the major clay component in all samples. Illitic clay coatings in the lower Mt. Simon reservoir are identified as a major control on reservoir properties by inhibiting major precipitation of authigenic quartz during illitization, resulting in highly permeable sandstone, essential for CO₂ storage. The coating box-work morphology and mineralogy are indicative of a detrital smectite origin with subsequent illite growth associated with feldspar dissolution and kaolinite alteration. The mineralogy of bulk material and separate grain size fractions (2–0.6 μm; 0.6–0.2 μm; < 0.2 μm) with illite polytypes 2M₁, 1M, and 1M_d were quantified and age dated via ⁴⁰K-⁴⁰Ar methods. The shales or reservoir seals contain the highest proportions of detrital illite with illite in the lower Mt. Simon Sandstone reservoir identified as solely diagenetic. Two major events of illitization are identified throughout the Mt. Simon with more porous reservoir rock exhibiting the older event from approximately 360 to 315 Ma and tighter sandstone units with reservoir properties too low to be considered reservoir exhibiting illite dates from 250 to 220 Ma. This partitioning of illitization is attributed to varied mineralogy controlled by depositional changes and evolution of the greater basin.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM)

Grant/Contract Number:: FC26-05NT42588

OSTI ID:: 2418101

Journal Information:: Marine and Petroleum Geology, Journal Name: Marine and Petroleum Geology Journal Issue: C Vol. 146; ISSN 0264-8172

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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