IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/energy/v45y2012i1p512-518.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The effect of mechanical rock properties on CO2 storage capacity

Author

Listed:
  • Vulin, Domagoj
  • Kurevija, Tomislav
  • Kolenkovic, Iva

Abstract

One of the most important issues when estimating CO2 storage capacity, especially in the case of the storage into deep saline aquifers, is the mechanical integrity of rock, i.e. estimate of cap rock fracture pressure. In the case of storage into mature oil and gas reservoirs, reservoir pressure should not present an issue since it was significantly decreased due to hydrocarbon production, so it is reasonable to assume that the rock integrity would not be disturbed by injecting CO2 to the initial reservoir pressure. Because estimates of fracture pressure are necessary, but not convenient for regional aquifers, the analysis of pore volume changes due to pressure buildup for the chosen CO2 site in Croatia has been made. Pressure buildup depends on reservoir fluid (brine) compressibility, CO2 compressibility at given reservoir conditions before CO2 injection and on rock compressibility i.e. pore compressibility. Implementing the simple method for analysis of pressure buildup considering elastic properties of fluids and rock, larger CO2 storage capacity estimate was achieved than by using storage efficiency coefficient (E), as defined by U.S. DOE [1] and which was used for estimating storage capacities in regional deep saline aquifers in Croatia as the part of EU GeoCapacity project [2].

Suggested Citation

  • Vulin, Domagoj & Kurevija, Tomislav & Kolenkovic, Iva, 2012. "The effect of mechanical rock properties on CO2 storage capacity," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 45(1), pages 512-518.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:45:y:2012:i:1:p:512-518
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.01.059
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544212000643
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.energy.2012.01.059?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Wang, Lei & Yao, Bowen & Xie, Haojun & Winterfeld, Philip H. & Kneafsey, Timothy J. & Yin, Xiaolong & Wu, Yu-Shu, 2017. "CO2 injection-induced fracturing in naturally fractured shale rocks," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 139(C), pages 1094-1110.
    2. Ranjith, P.G. & Perera, M.S.A., 2012. "Effects of cleat performance on strength reduction of coal in CO2 sequestration," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 45(1), pages 1069-1075.
    3. Višković, Alfredo & Franki, Vladimir & Valentić, Vladimir, 2014. "CCS (carbon capture and storage) investment possibility in South East Europe: A case study for Croatia," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 325-337.
    4. Vishal, V. & Singh, Lokendra & Pradhan, S.P. & Singh, T.N. & Ranjith, P.G., 2013. "Numerical modeling of Gondwana coal seams in India as coalbed methane reservoirs substituted for carbon dioxide sequestration," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 384-394.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:45:y:2012:i:1:p:512-518. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.