1-Day Training Course
Tuesday, 9 November
0800–1730
This training course includes hands-on activities, supplemented by presentations on research, technology, and case studies. The course focuses on CO₂ Storage through an integrated approach combining petroleum engineering, environmental geology, and reservoir geology.
Instructors
- Steve Bryant (Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, UT)
- Tip Meckel (Bureau of Economic Geology, UT)
- J.P. Nicot (Bureau of Economic Geology, UT)
- Hilary Olson (Institute for Geophysics, UT)
- Becky Smyth (Bureau of Economic Geology, UT)
- Sandia Technologies representative
All instructors are members of the Sequestration Training, Outreach, Research and Education (STORE) Alliance, a DOE-funded training initiative housed at the Gulf Coast Carbon Center of The University of Texas at Austin.
Course Content
Storage of CO2 in Geologic Formations
- Physical/chemical/thermodynamic properties of CO₂ atmospheric to reservoir conditions relevant to geologic storage (e.g., density, viscosity, solubility in brine)
- Modes of storage of CO₂ in subsurface formations
- Capillary seal (physics and chemistry)
- Residual saturation (physics)
- Dissolution into brine (chemistry)
- Mineralization (chemistry)
- Combined EOR and sequestration
Reservoir operation: injection of fluids through one set of wells to push oil out of another set of wells
- Goal of CO₂ EOR: achieve miscibility between CO2 and oil
- Transport of CO₂ from source to reservoir
- Handling CO₂ produced from the reservoir
- Storage of CO₂ in Geologic Aquifers
- Reservoir Characterization and Geostatistics Applied to CO₂ Storage
- Aquifer Storage Mechanisms
- Aquifer Storage Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction
- Monitoring Mechanisms (e.g., CO₂ leakage at the surface, wellbore monitoring, tracers)
- Environmental Monitoring at Storage Sites – Case Studies from the Gulf Coast Carbon Center
- Offshore Storage Capabilities – New Research at the Gulf Coast Carbon Center
