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Multiscale Assessment of Caprock Integrity for Geologic Carbon Storage in the Pennsylvanian Farnsworth Unit, Texas, USA

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  • Natasha Trujillo

    (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science Department, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
    Present address: Pioneer Natural Resources Company, Midland, TX 75039, USA.)

  • Dylan Rose-Coss

    (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science Department, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
    Present address: New Mexico Oil Conservation Division, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA.)

  • Jason E. Heath

    (Sandia National Laboratories, Geomechanics Department, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA)

  • Thomas A. Dewers

    (Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research and Analysis, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA)

  • William Ampomah

    (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Petroleum Resource Recovery Center, Socorro, NM 87801, USA)

  • Peter S. Mozley

    (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Earth and Environmental Science Department, Socorro, NM 87801, USA)

  • Martha Cather

    (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Petroleum Resource Recovery Center, Socorro, NM 87801, USA)

Abstract

Leakage pathways through caprock lithologies for underground storage of CO 2 and/or enhanced oil recovery (EOR) include intrusion into nano-pore mudstones, flow within fractures and faults, and larger-scale sedimentary heterogeneity (e.g., stacked channel deposits). To assess multiscale sealing integrity of the caprock system that overlies the Morrow B sandstone reservoir, Farnsworth Unit (FWU), Texas, USA, we combine pore-to-core observations, laboratory testing, well logging results, and noble gas analysis. A cluster analysis combining gamma ray, compressional slowness, and other logs was combined with caliper responses and triaxial rock mechanics testing to define eleven lithologic classes across the upper Morrow shale and Thirteen Finger limestone caprock units, with estimations of dynamic elastic moduli and fracture breakdown pressures (minimum horizontal stress gradients) for each class. Mercury porosimetry determinations of CO 2 column heights in sealing formations yield values exceeding reservoir height. Noble gas profiles provide a “geologic time-integrated” assessment of fluid flow across the reservoir-caprock system, with Morrow B reservoir measurements consistent with decades-long EOR water-flooding, and upper Morrow shale and lower Thirteen Finger limestone values being consistent with long-term geohydrologic isolation. Together, these data suggest an excellent sealing capacity for the FWU and provide limits for injection pressure increases accompanying carbon storage activities.

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  • Natasha Trujillo & Dylan Rose-Coss & Jason E. Heath & Thomas A. Dewers & William Ampomah & Peter S. Mozley & Martha Cather, 2021. "Multiscale Assessment of Caprock Integrity for Geologic Carbon Storage in the Pennsylvanian Farnsworth Unit, Texas, USA," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-26, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:14:y:2021:i:18:p:5824-:d:635706
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    1. Martha Cather & Dylan Rose-Coss & Sara Gallagher & Natasha Trujillo & Steven Cather & Robert Spencer Hollingworth & Peter Mozley & Ryan J. Leary, 2021. "Deposition, Diagenesis, and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Pennsylvanian Morrowan and Atokan Intervals at Farnsworth Unit," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-26, February.
    2. Lindsey Rasmussen & Tianguang Fan & Alex Rinehart & Andrew Luhmann & William Ampomah & Thomas Dewers & Jason Heath & Martha Cather & Reid Grigg, 2019. "Carbon Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery in Pennsylvanian Morrow Formation Clastic Reservoirs: Controls on Oil–Brine and Oil–CO 2 Relative Permeability from Diagenetic Heterogeneity and Evolving Wetta," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(19), pages 1-33, September.
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