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Curtis Oldenburg

University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)

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Berkeley, CA 94720

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  • University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)

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Computational Tools and Workflows for Quantitative Risk Assessment and Decision Support for Geologic Carbon Storage Sites: Progress and Insights from the U.S. DOE’s National Risk Assessment Partnership

Proceedings of the 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-16) 23-24 Oct 2022
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 Dec 2022
Robert Dilmore, Delphine Appriou, Diana H. Bacon, Christopher Brown, Abdullah Cihan, Erika Gasperikova, Kayla Kroll, Curtis Oldenburg, Rajesh Pawar, Megan Smith, Brian Strazisar, Dennise Templeton, R. Burt Thomas, Veronika Vasylkivska and Joshua A. White
National Energy Technology Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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quantitatitve risk assessment, geologic carbon storage, carbon capture and storage, uncertainty, monitoring, integrated assessment modeling, leakage, induced seismicity

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Mechanistic Modeling of Major Offshore CO 2 Well or Pipeline Leakage

Oldenburg, C.M. and Pan, L., 2020. Major CO2 blowouts from offshore wells are strongly attenuated in water deeper than 50 m. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 10(1), pp.15-31., Proceedings of the 15th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference 15-18 March 2021
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 26 Mar 2021
Curtis Oldenburg and Lehua Pan
University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and University of California, Berkeley - Energy Geosciences Division
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CO2 well blowout, wellbore modeling, offshore well blowout, buoyant plume, integral plume model, CO2 in water column

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Dynamic Risk Assessment for Geologic CO2 Sequestration

Proceedings of the 15th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference 15-18 March 2021
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 24 Mar 2021
Bailian Chen, Dylan Harp, Yingqi Zhang, Curtis Oldenburg and Rajesh Pawar
Government of the United States of America - Los Alamos National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Geologic CO2 sequestration; Dynamic risk assessment; Integrated assessment model; Data assimilation; Uncertainty quantification

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Modeling Transient Leakage Signals from Abandoned Wells with T2Well: Effects of Plug Gap Aperture

14th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference Melbourne 21-26 October 2018 (GHGT-14)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 04 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2020
Lehua Pan and Curtis Oldenburg
University of California, Berkeley - Energy Geosciences Division and University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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Leakage modelling, GHGT-14

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The Role of Pressure Dissipation via Caprock in Reducing Brine Leakage in Overpressured Geological CO2 Storage Reservoirs

Cihan, A., Oldenburg, C. M., & Birkholzer, J. T. (2022). Leakage from coexisting geologic forcing and injection-induced pressurization: A semi-analytical solution for multilayered aquifers with multiple wells. Water Resources Research, 58, e2022WR032343. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR032343, Proceedings of the 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-16) 23-24 Oct 2022
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 08 Nov 2022
Abdullah Cihan, Curtis Oldenburg and Jens Birkholzer
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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brine leakage; abandoned wells, geological carbon sequestration, pre-injection overpressure, semi-analytical modeling

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Co2 Flow Modeling in a Coupled Wellbore and Aquifer System: Details of Pressure, Temperature, and Dry-Out

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Jun 2023
Nematollah Zamani, Curtis Oldenburg, Jonas Solbakken, Morten Gunnar Aaarra, Patrick Kowollik, Hakan Alkan, Mohammed Amro, Taofik Nassan, Jose Kevin Pauyac Estrada and Oleksandr Burachok
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, Wintershall Dea AG, Independent, Institute of Drilling Engineering and Fluid Mining, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg/ Institute of Drilling Engineering and Fluid Mining, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Wintershall Dea AG
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Coupled well-reservoir system, T2WELL-ECO2M, Thermal processes, Dry-out region, Injectivity

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Downwind Dispersion of CO2 from a Major Subsea Blowout in Shallow Offshore Waters

Oldenburg, C.M. and Zhang, Y., 2022. Downwind dispersion of CO2 from a major subsea blowout in shallow offshore waters. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 12(2), pp.321-331. , Proceedings of the 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-16) 23-24 Oct 2022
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 10 Nov 2022
Curtis Oldenburg, susan hovorka and Yingqi Zhang
University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Bureau of Economic Geology and University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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CO2 well blowout, offshore well blowout, atmospheric dispersion, dense gas dispersion, CO2 leakage risk assessment, reduced order models

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Water Upconing in Underground Hydrogen Storage: Sensitivity Analysis to Inform Design of Withdrawal

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Jul 2023
Curtis Oldenburg, Stefan Finsterle and Robert Trautz
University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), affiliation not provided to SSRN and Electric Power Research Institute
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Hydrogen storage, underground hydrogen storage, geological hydrogen storage, Upconing, Coning, Sensitivity analysis