Secure Storage

Deployment of magnetic receivers in well OB2 at Richmond Field Station. Photo courtesy of LBNL FWP-ESD14-095 Task 3.

Secure Storage Overview:

Secure Storage focuses on technologies to:

Confirm that the carbon dioxide (CO₂) (and brine) remains in the storage complex
Detect and quantify leaks should they occur.

Secure storage includes geomechanical analyses to assure caprock integrity and monitoring in the deep subsurface (both above and below the storage reservoir), in the shallow subsurface, and at, and above, the ground surface to detect and quantify leakage, should it occur. Some technologies employed for plume detection and storage efficiency are also used for secure storage. For secure storage, the technology is focused on the overburden or underburden instead of the reservoir.

Research in Secure Storage includes:

New tools for in-situ measurement of geomechanical properties in the caprock.
Development of improved surface, near-surface, and subsurface monitoring tools and field data acquisition which focuses on detecting and quantifying leaks.
Modeling which incorporates geomechanical processes that impact the possibility of leakage.
Field validation of modeling algorithms.
Development of integrated sensor networks for leak detection and quantification, assurance monitoring and geomechanical impacts.
Development and validation of above-zone monitoring interval (AZMI) tools, acquisition, and modeling.
Development of technologies to augment seismic methods for leak detection and quantification.

Secure Storage Project Landing Pages
Robust In Situ Strain Measurements to Monitor Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) Storage	Clemson University
	FE0028292
Field Validation of MVA Technology for Offshore CCS: Novel Ultra-High-Resolution 3D Marine Seismic Technology (P-Cable)	University of Texas at Austin
	FE0028193
High-Resolution Reservoir Seal Integrity Monitoring using Optimized Borehole Sources and Distributed Acoustic Sensing	Rice University
	FE0032058
Acoustic Emissions Sensing for Tracing Carbon Dioxide Movement in Caprock of a Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage System (CCUS)	Battelle Memorial Institute
	FE0032062
Advancing Characterization of Faults through Deployment of Novel Geophysical, Geochemical and Geomechanical Technologies at the San Juan Basin CarbonSAFE Site	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT)
	FE0032064
Core Carbon Storage Monitoring and Research	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Core Carbon Storage Monitoring and Research	FWP-ESD014095
Changes in Seal Integrity Induced by CO₂ Injection and Leakage in a Hydromechanically Reactivated Fault Affecting a Caprock Analog: Combining Distributed Fiber Optic Chemical Sensors and Seismic Measurements in Boreholes	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
	FWP-FP00013650
PERBAS: Rock Physics Characterization of Reactive CO₂ Transport through Basaltic Rocks	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
	FWP-FP00015801

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