کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5484187 | 1522786 | 2017 | 9 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Impact of layer thickness and well orientation on caprock integrity for geologic carbon storage
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مهندسی و علوم پایه
علوم زمین و سیارات
زمین شناسی اقتصادی
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چکیده انگلیسی
Economic feasibility of geologic carbon storage demands sustaining large storage rates without damaging caprock seals. Reactivation of pre-existing or newly formed fractures may provide a leakage pathway across caprock layers. In this study, we apply an equivalent continuum approach within a finite element framework to model the fluid-pressure-induced reactivation of pre-existing fractures within the caprock, during high-rate injection of super-critical CO2 into a brine-saturated reservoir in a hypothetical system, using realistic geomechanical and fluid properties. We investigate the impact of reservoir to caprock layer thickness, wellbore orientation, and injection rate on overall performance of the system with respect to caprock failure and leakage. We find that vertical wells result in locally higher reservoir pressures relative to horizontal injection wells for the same injection rate, with high pressure inducing caprock leakage along reactivated opening-mode fractures in the caprock. After prolonged injection, leakage along reactivated fractures in the caprock is always higher for vertical than horizontal injection wells. Furthermore, we find that low ratios of reservoir to caprock thickness favor high excess pressure and thus fracture reactivation in the caprock. Injection into thick reservoir units thus lowers the risk associated with CO2 leakage.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering - Volume 155, July 2017, Pages 100-108
Journal: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering - Volume 155, July 2017, Pages 100-108
نویسندگان
P. Newell, M.J. Martinez, P. Eichhubl,