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Transport Mechanisms for CO 2 -CH 4 Exchange and Safe CO 2 Storage in Hydrate-Bearing Sandstone

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  • Knut Arne Birkedal

    (Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen, Norway)

  • Lars Petter Hauge

    (Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen, Norway)

  • Arne Graue

    (Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen, Norway)

  • Geir Ersland

    (Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen, Norway)

Abstract

CO 2 injection in hydrate-bearing sediments induces methane (CH 4 ) production while benefitting from CO 2 storage, as demonstrated in both core and field scale studies. CH 4 hydrates have been formed repeatedly in partially water saturated Bentheim sandstones. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and CH 4 consumption from pump logs have been used to verify final CH 4 hydrate saturation. Gas Chromatography (GC) in combination with a Mass Flow Meter was used to quantify CH 4 recovery during CO 2 injection. The overall aim has been to study the impact of CO 2 in fractured and non-fractured samples to determine the performance of CO 2 -induced CH 4 hydrate production. Previous efforts focused on diffusion-driven exchange from a fracture volume. This approach was limited by gas dilution, where free and produced CH 4 reduced the CO 2 concentration and subsequent driving force for both diffusion and exchange. This limitation was targeted by performing experiments where CO 2 was injected continuously into the spacer volume to maintain a high driving force. To evaluate the effect of diffusion length multi-fractured core samples were used, which demonstrated that length was not the dominating effect on core scale. An additional set of experiments is presented on non-fractured samples, where diffusion-limited transportation was assisted by continuous CO 2 injection and CH 4 displacement. Loss of permeability was addressed through binary gas (N 2 /CO 2 ) injection, which regained injectivity and sustained CO 2 -CH 4 exchange.

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  • Knut Arne Birkedal & Lars Petter Hauge & Arne Graue & Geir Ersland, 2015. "Transport Mechanisms for CO 2 -CH 4 Exchange and Safe CO 2 Storage in Hydrate-Bearing Sandstone," Energies, MDPI, vol. 8(5), pages 1-23, May.
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    1. Christian Deusner & Nikolaus Bigalke & Elke Kossel & Matthias Haeckel, 2012. "Methane Production from Gas Hydrate Deposits through Injection of Supercritical CO 2," Energies, MDPI, vol. 5(7), pages 1-29, June.
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    1. Tsypkin, G.G., 2021. "Analytical study of CO2–CH4 exchange in hydrate at high rates of carbon dioxide injection into a reservoir saturated with methane hydrate and gaseous methane," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).

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