CO2 Storage with Mobility Control

14 Pages Posted: 4 Apr 2019 Last revised: 9 May 2019

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Alv-Arne Grimstad

SINTEF Industry

Per Eirik Strand Bergmo

SINTEF Industry

Halvor Møll Nilsen

SINTEF Digital

Øystein Klemetsdal

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Abstract

The high mobility contrast between injected CO2 and the formation brine at reservoir conditions makes the displacement efficiency low and can give early breakthrough of injected CO2 into brine extraction wells for pressure management, or early reaching of spill points in structural traps. The storage capacity could in many cases be increased if efficient mobility control methods could be implemented for the injected CO2. In this paper we investigate the potential benefits of mobility control for CO2 injection in saline aquifers using both a commercial reservoir simulator and a specially developed module for the Matlab Reservoir Simulation Toolbox. The mobility control method investigated is surfactants for foam generation. These exists today both as water soluble and CO2 soluble surfactants, and the efficiency of both types are studied. Rough estimates of the cost of additional storage capacity are made. Results show that the storage capacity in some cases can be more than doubled, at a cost the order of 7 $ per additional tonne of stored CO2.

Keywords: Storage reservoir engineering, GHGT-14

Suggested Citation

Grimstad, Alv-Arne and Bergmo, Per Eirik Strand and Nilsen, Halvor Møll and Klemetsdal, Øystein, CO2 Storage with Mobility Control. 14th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference Melbourne 21-26 October 2018 (GHGT-14) , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3365966 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3365966

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Per Eirik Strand Bergmo

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Halvor Møll Nilsen

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Øystein Klemetsdal

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

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Trondheim NO-7491, 7491
Norway

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