Quantitative Evaluation of CO2 Storage Potential in the Offshore Atlantic Lower Cretaceous Strata, Southeastern United States
Abstract
The geological storage of CO2 in the Earth’s subsurface has the potential to significantly offset greenhouse gas emissions for safe, economical, and acceptable public use. Due to legal advantages and vast resource capacity, offshore CO2 storage provides an attractive alternative to onshore options. Although offshore Lower Cretaceous reservoirs have a vast expected storage capacity, there is a limited quantitative assessment of the offshore storage resource in the southeastern United States. This work is part of the Southeast Offshore Storage Resource Assessment (SOSRA) project, which presents a high-quality potential geological repository for CO2 in the Mid- and South Atlantic Planning Areas. This is the first comprehensive investigation and quantitative assessment of CO2 storage potential for the Lower Cretaceous section of the outer continental shelf that includes the Southeast Georgia Embayment and most of the Blake Plateau. An interpretation of 200,000 km of legacy industrial 2D seismic reflection profiles and geophysical well logs (i.e., TRANSCO 1005-1-1, COST GE-1, and EXXON 564-1) were utilized to create structure and thickness maps for the potential reservoirs and seals. We identified and assessed three target reservoirs isolated by seals based on their effective porosity values. The CO2 storage capacity of these reservoirs was theoretically calculated usingmore »
- Authors:
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- Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (United States); University of Basrah (Iraq)
- Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Southern States Energy Board, Peachtree Corners, GA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE); Basrah University; Iraqi Cultural Office
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1981141
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FE0026086
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energies
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 15; Journal Issue: 13; Journal ID: ISSN 1996-1073
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 03 NATURAL GAS; carbon dioxide; CO2; carbon capture and storage; CCS; offshore Atlantic; efficiency factors; southeastern United States
Citation Formats
Almayahi, Dawod S., Knapp, James H., and Knapp, Camelia. Quantitative Evaluation of CO2 Storage Potential in the Offshore Atlantic Lower Cretaceous Strata, Southeastern United States. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.3390/en15134890.
Almayahi, Dawod S., Knapp, James H., & Knapp, Camelia. Quantitative Evaluation of CO2 Storage Potential in the Offshore Atlantic Lower Cretaceous Strata, Southeastern United States. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15134890
Almayahi, Dawod S., Knapp, James H., and Knapp, Camelia. Mon .
"Quantitative Evaluation of CO2 Storage Potential in the Offshore Atlantic Lower Cretaceous Strata, Southeastern United States". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15134890. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1981141.
@article{osti_1981141,
title = {Quantitative Evaluation of CO2 Storage Potential in the Offshore Atlantic Lower Cretaceous Strata, Southeastern United States},
author = {Almayahi, Dawod S. and Knapp, James H. and Knapp, Camelia},
abstractNote = {The geological storage of CO2 in the Earth’s subsurface has the potential to significantly offset greenhouse gas emissions for safe, economical, and acceptable public use. Due to legal advantages and vast resource capacity, offshore CO2 storage provides an attractive alternative to onshore options. Although offshore Lower Cretaceous reservoirs have a vast expected storage capacity, there is a limited quantitative assessment of the offshore storage resource in the southeastern United States. This work is part of the Southeast Offshore Storage Resource Assessment (SOSRA) project, which presents a high-quality potential geological repository for CO2 in the Mid- and South Atlantic Planning Areas. This is the first comprehensive investigation and quantitative assessment of CO2 storage potential for the Lower Cretaceous section of the outer continental shelf that includes the Southeast Georgia Embayment and most of the Blake Plateau. An interpretation of 200,000 km of legacy industrial 2D seismic reflection profiles and geophysical well logs (i.e., TRANSCO 1005-1-1, COST GE-1, and EXXON 564-1) were utilized to create structure and thickness maps for the potential reservoirs and seals. We identified and assessed three target reservoirs isolated by seals based on their effective porosity values. The CO2 storage capacity of these reservoirs was theoretically calculated using the DOE-NETL equation for saline formations. The prospective storage resources are estimated between 450 and 4700 Mt of CO2, with an offshore geological efficiency factor of dolomite between 2% and 3.6% at the formation scale.},
doi = {10.3390/en15134890},
journal = {Energies},
number = 13,
volume = 15,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 04 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Mon Jul 04 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}
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