Toward a CO2 sequestration project in the Jurassic saline aquifer of southern Israel: Seismotectonic characterization

Henceforth, there is the need to set threshold criteria that will guide the collecting of the missing data, fill the knowledge gaps and direct future investigations. Such are, for example, the accurate monitoring of natural weak seismicity and the state of stress within the proposed sites. Hazards that cannot be measured directly will need modeling and sensitivity analysis such as the potential role of the present day stress field and induced seismicity, whether they are capable of damaging the integrity of the potential aquitard. These actions will allow determining whether the proposed sites do meet with the necessary requirements and predicting the behavior of the reservoir rocks under different conditions until failure and escape of the sequestrated material.