Drilling and abandonment preparation of CO₂ storage wells – Experience from the Ketzin pilot site
Abstract
At Ketzin, located west of Berlin, the GFZ German Centre for Geosciences is operating Europe's largest CO₂ research storage site. This pilot site has been developed since 2004 and is comprised of one combined injection/observation well and four monitoring wells. From June 2008 to August 2013, a total of 67 kilotons of CO₂ were safely injected into the sandstone units of the Upper Triassic Stuttgart Formation in a depth between 630 to 650 m. The paper discusses the well designs and lessons learned in drilling engineering and operations. The abandonment phase started in Ketzin with the first plug cementation of the observation well Ktzi 202 shortly after shut-in of CO₂ injection. The experience with the first CO₂ well killing operation will be reviewed.
- Authors:
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- GFZ German Centre for Geoscience, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam (Germany)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1196869
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energy Procedia (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Energy Procedia (Online); Journal Volume: 63; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1876-6102
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; well design; permanent down-hole monitoring; Mud losses; cementation; perforation; abandonment; well killing
Citation Formats
Prevedel, Bernhard, Martens, Sonja, Norden, Ben, Henninges, Jan, and Freifeld, Barry M. Drilling and abandonment preparation of CO₂ storage wells – Experience from the Ketzin pilot site. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.639.
Prevedel, Bernhard, Martens, Sonja, Norden, Ben, Henninges, Jan, & Freifeld, Barry M. Drilling and abandonment preparation of CO₂ storage wells – Experience from the Ketzin pilot site. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.639
Prevedel, Bernhard, Martens, Sonja, Norden, Ben, Henninges, Jan, and Freifeld, Barry M. Wed .
"Drilling and abandonment preparation of CO₂ storage wells – Experience from the Ketzin pilot site". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.639. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1196869.
@article{osti_1196869,
title = {Drilling and abandonment preparation of CO₂ storage wells – Experience from the Ketzin pilot site},
author = {Prevedel, Bernhard and Martens, Sonja and Norden, Ben and Henninges, Jan and Freifeld, Barry M.},
abstractNote = {At Ketzin, located west of Berlin, the GFZ German Centre for Geosciences is operating Europe's largest CO₂ research storage site. This pilot site has been developed since 2004 and is comprised of one combined injection/observation well and four monitoring wells. From June 2008 to August 2013, a total of 67 kilotons of CO₂ were safely injected into the sandstone units of the Upper Triassic Stuttgart Formation in a depth between 630 to 650 m. The paper discusses the well designs and lessons learned in drilling engineering and operations. The abandonment phase started in Ketzin with the first plug cementation of the observation well Ktzi 202 shortly after shut-in of CO₂ injection. The experience with the first CO₂ well killing operation will be reviewed.},
doi = {10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.639},
journal = {Energy Procedia (Online)},
number = C,
volume = 63,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}
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