A probabilistic assessment methodology for the evaluation of geologic carbon dioxide storage

Brennan, Sean T.; Burruss, Robert A.; Merrill, Matthew D.; Freeman, Philip A.; Ruppert, Leslie F.

doi:10.3133/ofr20101127

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“…The third phase dealt with the estimation of theoretical capacity within each identified geological province. At present, various calculation methods have been proposed to know the storage capacity of a rock formation [22,10,23,20,24,25,2]. They have been applied to different country projects within their respective areas and still there is uncertainty.…”

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Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage in Mexico: A First Approximation

Jimenez¹,

Dávila²,

Arévalo³

et al. 2011

Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage in Mexico: A First Approximation

Jimenez¹,

Dávila²,

Arévalo³

et al. 2011

Earth and Environmental Sciences

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“…Production of hydrocarbons could provide revenues that would help discount CO 2 storage costs, while mitigating risk through reducing pressure buildup in buoyant structures. Relative to storage in DSFs, there could also be less geologic uncertainty with buoyant structures (owing to greater availability of geologic data from previous exploration and production of hydrocarbons), and the costs and timeframe for monitoring and managing risks could be significantly less (IPCC 2005;Brennan et al 2010;Bachu et al 2013). However, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated that buoyant traps account for only 2% of the mean total TASR onshore in the United States (USGS 2013).…”

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“…Solubility trapping may play an increasing role in the long run (over hundreds of years or longer), but may not add significantly to current estimates of storage capacities (Lu et al 2013;Bachu 2015). Residual trapping occurs when droplets of CO 2 are immobilized by capillary forces and remain trapped in the tight pore spaces of the rock as the plume of injected CO 2 passes through (Brennan et al 2010). This trapping mechanism does not rely on lateral seals and is effective at immobilizing CO 2 in open geologic systems (not laterally confined by impermeable seals or low-permeability zones).…”

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Risk, Liability, and Economic Issues with Long-Term CO2 Storage—A Review

Anderson

2016

Nat Resour Res

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Given a scarcity of commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, there is a great deal of uncertainty in the risks, liability, and their cost implications for geologic storage of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). The probabilities of leakage and the risk of induced seismicity could be remote, but the volume of geologic CO 2 storage (GCS) projected to be necessary to have a significant impact on increasing CO 2 concentrations in the atmosphere is far greater than the volumes of CO 2 injected thus far. National-level estimates of the technically accessible CO 2 storage resource (TASR) onshore in the United States are on the order of thousands of gigatons of CO 2 storage capacity, but such estimates generally assume away any pressure management issues. Pressure buildup in the storage reservoir is expected to be a primary source of risk associated with CO 2 storage, and only a fraction of the theoretical TASR could be available unless the storage operator extracts the saltwater brines or other formation fluids that are already present in the geologic pore space targeted for CO 2 storage. Institutions, legislation, and processes to manage the risk, liability, and economic issues with CO 2 storage in the United States are beginning to emerge, but will need to progress further in order to allow a commercial-scale CO 2 storage industry to develop in the country. The combination of economic tradeoffs, property rights definitions, liability issues, and risk considerations suggests that CO 2 storage offshore of the United States may be more feasible than onshore, especially during the current (early) stages of industry development.

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“…Individual storage assessment units (SAUs) within each basin are defined on the basis of geologic and hydrologic characteristics outlined in the assessment methodology of Brennan et al [2010]. The methodology provides a range of results that form a probability distribution that approximately represents the uncertainty associated with sequestration potential.…”

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“…In accordance with the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed scientifically based methods for quantitative assessments of geologic and biologic carbon sequestration [Brennan et al, 2010;Zhu et al, 2010], and two national-scale assessments (subsurface and terrestrial), which are currently under way, will provide the most comprehensive accounting of the nation's carbon storage potential. (For more information, see http:// www .usgs .gov/ climate _landuse/ carbon _seq/.…”

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New insights into the nation's carbon storage potential

Warwick

Zhu

2012

EoS Transactions

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Carbon sequestration is a method of securing carbon dioxide (CO2) to prevent its release into the atmosphere, where it contributes to global warming as a greenhouse gas. Geologic storage of CO2 in porous and permeable rocks involves injecting high‐pressure CO2 into a subsurface rock unit that has available pore space. Biologic carbon sequestration refers to both natural and anthropogenic processes by which CO2 is removed from the atmosphere and stored as carbon in vegetation, soils, and sediments.

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A probabilistic assessment methodology for the evaluation of geologic carbon dioxide storage

Cited by 66 publications

References 19 publications

Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage in Mexico: A First Approximation

Geological Carbon Dioxide Storage in Mexico: A First Approximation

Risk, Liability, and Economic Issues with Long-Term CO2 Storage—A Review

New insights into the nation's carbon storage potential

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