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Pore Scale Modelling of CO2 Storage in the Utsira Formation
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, Third EAGE CO2 Geological Storage Workshop, Mar 2012, cp-281-00010
- ISBN: 978-94-6282-054-8
Abstract
Digital pore scale images of the reservoir rocks from the Utsira formation have been modelled. The Utsira Formation on the Norwegian Continental Shelf that is already being used for CO2 sequestration. This is a saline sand aquifer of Miocene to early Pliocene age, which is covered by some 700 meters of shales and sands. The aquifer is large and CO2 is being injected into the aquifer at a depth of 1012 meters below the sea floor by a highly deviated 3 km long well from the Sleipner Field. Direct dynamic CO2/water simulations have been conducted with all relevant fluid and flow properties. From these simulations steady and un-steady state constitutive relations (relative permeability, end-point saturations) are obtained. Clear flow rate and viscosity effects are revealed from these data, which again affects the storage capabilities of the reservoir rocks.