oa Towards a Field Experiment Investigating Fault Systems

A key uncertainty when investigating potential geological carbon storage projects is the role of faults and 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 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 the progress of a field demonstration experiment to investigate the interaction between injected CO2 plume and faults systems at depth.