Delineating Area of Review in a System with Pre-injection Relative Overpressure

Oldenburg, Curtis M.; Cihan, Abdullah; Zhou, Quanlin; Fairweather, Stacey; Spangler, Lee H.

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.400

Title: Delineating Area of Review in a System with Pre-injection Relative Overpressure

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The Class VI permit application for geologic carbon sequestration (GCS) requires delineation of an area of review (AoR), defined as the region surrounding the (GCS) project where underground sources of drinking water (USDWs) may be endangered. The methods for estimating AoR under the Class VI regulation were developed assuming that GCS reservoirs would be in hydrostatic equilibrium with overlying aquifers. Here we develop and apply an approach to estimating AoR for sites with preinjection relative overpressure for which standard AoR estimation methods produces an infinite AoR. The approach we take is to compare brine leakage through a hypothetical open flow path in the base-case scenario (no-injection) to the incrementally larger leakage that would occur in the CO₂-injection case. To estimate AoR by this method, we used semi-analytical solutions to single-phase flow equations to model reservoir pressurization and flow up (single) leaky wells located at progressively greater distances from the injection well. We found that the incrementally larger flow rates for hypothetical leaky wells located 6 km and 4 km from the injection well are ~20% and 30% greater, respectively, than hypothetical baseline leakage rates. If total brine leakage is considered, the results depend strongly on how the incremental increase inmore »« less

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Oldenburg, Curtis M. ^[1]; Cihan, Abdullah ^[1]; Zhou, Quanlin ^[1]; Fairweather, Stacey ^[2]; Spangler, Lee H. ^[2]

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Montana State Univ., Boseman, MT (United States). Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership

Publication Date:: Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 2014

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)

OSTI Identifier:: 1206401

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Energy Procedia

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 63; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1876-6102

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 58 GEOSCIENCES; area of review; Class VI; overpressure; underpressure; hydrostatic pressure; USDW

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                    Oldenburg, Curtis M., Cihan, Abdullah, Zhou, Quanlin, Fairweather, Stacey, and Spangler, Lee H. Delineating Area of Review in a System with Pre-injection Relative Overpressure.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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                    Oldenburg, Curtis M., Cihan, Abdullah, Zhou, Quanlin, Fairweather, Stacey, & Spangler, Lee H. Delineating Area of Review in a System with Pre-injection Relative Overpressure.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.400

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                    Oldenburg, Curtis M., Cihan, Abdullah, Zhou, Quanlin, Fairweather, Stacey, and Spangler, Lee H. Wed .  
"Delineating Area of Review in a System with Pre-injection Relative Overpressure".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.400.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1206401.

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@article{osti_1206401,

  title        = {Delineating Area of Review in a System with Pre-injection Relative Overpressure},

  author       = {Oldenburg, Curtis M. and Cihan, Abdullah and Zhou, Quanlin and Fairweather, Stacey and Spangler, Lee H.},

  abstractNote = {The Class VI permit application for geologic carbon sequestration (GCS) requires delineation of an area of review (AoR), defined as the region surrounding the (GCS) project where underground sources of drinking water (USDWs) may be endangered. The methods for estimating AoR under the Class VI regulation were developed assuming that GCS reservoirs would be in hydrostatic equilibrium with overlying aquifers. Here we develop and apply an approach to estimating AoR for sites with preinjection relative overpressure for which standard AoR estimation methods produces an infinite AoR. The approach we take is to compare brine leakage through a hypothetical open flow path in the base-case scenario (no-injection) to the incrementally larger leakage that would occur in the CO2-injection case. To estimate AoR by this method, we used semi-analytical solutions to single-phase flow equations to model reservoir pressurization and flow up (single) leaky wells located at progressively greater distances from the injection well. We found that the incrementally larger flow rates for hypothetical leaky wells located 6 km and 4 km from the injection well are ~20% and 30% greater, respectively, than hypothetical baseline leakage rates. If total brine leakage is considered, the results depend strongly on how the incremental increase in total leakage is calculated, varying from a few percent to up to 40% greater (at most at early time) than base-case total leakage.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.400},

  journal      = {Energy Procedia},

  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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