The Geology of The Mt. Simon Sandstone Storage Complex at the Wabash #1 Well, Vigo Co., Indiana (Subtask 7.2, Technical Report)

Freiburg, Jared T.; Delpomdor, Franck; McBride, John H.; Leetaru, Hannes E.; Malone, David H.; Grigsby, Nate; Khosravi, Mansour; Frailey, Scott M.; Damico, James R.; Monson, Charles C.; Askari, Zohreh; Lasemi, Yaghoob; Willette, Donna C.; Babarinde, Oladipupo; Korose, Chris; Yu, Mingyue; Gardiner, Lauren M.

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“…A succession of micaceous silt occurs below the basalt, which may have been deposited in a lacustrine environment, which are common in rift basins (Katz, 1990). Two-dimension seismic reflection across the area of the Wabash #1 well suggest several layers of basalt interbedded with the Cambrian strata (Freiburg et al, 2022).…”

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Geochronology of Cambrian Sedimentary and Volcanic Rocks in the Illinois Basin: Defining the Illinois Aulacogen

Freiburg

Malone

Huisman

2022

The Sedimentary Record

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The Wabash #1 well, drilled for the Wabash CarbonSAFE Project and located in Vigo County, Indiana, USA, was drilled in early 2020 as a stratigraphic test well to characterize and evaluate the basal Cambrian Mt. Simon Sandstone for carbon dioxide storage (TD=8750 ft; 2667 m). The Wabash #1 well is located along the eastern flank of a newly interpreted Cambrian aulacogen that occurs in western Indiana and eastern Illinois. Here we present 938 new detrital zircon U-Pb ages (LA-ICPMS) from early Cambrian sandstones sampled near the base of the well. A basalt lava flow was penetrated at ~8530 ft (2600 m) and has an 40Ar/39Ar age of 525.03 +/- 1.10 Ma, which represents the first known Cambrian crust in the Illinois Basin. The two sandstone samples from beneath the basalt are dominated by zircons derived from the Midcontinent Granite-Rhyolite terrane. The sandstone samples from above the basalt reflect a mixture of these locally derived Mazatzal and Granite-Rhyolite terrane zircons, but also distal Archean, Grenville, and Yavapai zircons. Each sample has small numbers of Cambrian zircons, which is consistent with those in basal Cambrian sandstones in other deep wells to the west. These early Cambrian detrital zircons and early Cambrian age of the basalt, combined with sediment thickness patterns permit the interpretation of the Illinois aulacogen, which formed during the final stage of Rodinian rifting.

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Geochronology of Cambrian Sedimentary and Volcanic Rocks in the Illinois Basin: Defining the Illinois Aulacogen

Freiburg

Malone

Huisman

2022

The Sedimentary Record

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“…The variations in the NTG model are a result of porosity and permeability differences within the formations, indicative of differing depositional environments [15]. At the top of the NTG model, we identify a baffle facies representing the Eau Claire Shale.…”

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“…Figure 2 shows the stratigraphic column of the Cambro-Ordovician succession in Southern Illinois and Southwestern Indiana, highlighting the Mount Simon Sandstone storage complex that consists of the Mount Simon Sandstone formation as the CO 2 storage formation and the Eau Claire Shale overlying the Mount Simon Sandstone as the primary seal [15]. [15]).…”

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A Reservoir Modeling Study for the Evaluation of CO2 Storage Upscaling at the Decatur Site in the Eastern Illinois Basin

Rathmaier,

Naim,

William

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The study of geological CO2 sequestration and its long-term implications are crucial for ensuring the safety and sustainability of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. This work presents a numerical reservoir modeling study to upscale CO2 injection in the Eastern Illinois Basin to a cumulative value of 27 Mt within the next 20 years, adding one proposed Class VI injector well to the two already existing ones in this field. Along with the reservoir simulations that include the main CO2 trapping mechanisms that ensure a minimum of a 100-year Area-of-Review containment, we describe a step-by-step approach to enhance measurement, monitoring, and verification (MMV) plans, starting from low-cost methods such as repeated 1D VSP in existing boreholes to 2D seismic surveys and higher-cost data acquisition techniques.

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The Geology of The Mt. Simon Sandstone Storage Complex at the Wabash #1 Well, Vigo Co., Indiana (Subtask 7.2, Technical Report)

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Geochronology of Cambrian Sedimentary and Volcanic Rocks in the Illinois Basin: Defining the Illinois Aulacogen

Geochronology of Cambrian Sedimentary and Volcanic Rocks in the Illinois Basin: Defining the Illinois Aulacogen

A Reservoir Modeling Study for the Evaluation of CO2 Storage Upscaling at the Decatur Site in the Eastern Illinois Basin

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