oa Understanding Fault Systems Uncertainties through Seismic and Fluid Injection: an Example from The CSIRO In-Situ Lab

A key uncertainty when investigating potential geological carbon storage projects is the role of faults and the uncertainty related to their interactions with the injected CO2 plume. While it is anticipated that geological carbon storage project will at least in the short-term focus on avoiding the interaction between the injected CO2 plume and geological singularities such as faults, as the number of storage projects increases, the likelihood of a storage projects encountering a fault system would increase. Therefore, it will become critical to build an understanding of the potential impact of the interactions, develop methodologies to reduce the different uncertainties and mature monitoring systems to address the residual risks.

In this abstract, we focused on a selected fault which is considered for field demonstration experiments of fault systems.