BEST Publications
Phase II – Field Demonstrations
- Phase II Field Demonstration at Plant Smith Generating Station: Assessment of Opportunities for Optimal Reservoir Pressure Control, Plume Management and Produced Water
Presented by Robert C. Trautz, Carbon Management Project Review Meeting – Carbon Transport and Storage, August 16, 2022.
- Pore-Scale CFD Simulations of Clay Mobilization in Natural Porous Media Due to Fresh Water Injection
Pramod Bhuvankar, Abdulhha Cihan, Jens Birkholzer, Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 247, January 2022
- Permeability Decline by Clay Fines Migration around a Low-Salinity Fluid Injection Well
Abdullah Cihan, Robin Petrusak, Pramod Bhuvankar, David Alumbaugh, Robert Trautz, Jens T. Birkholzer, Ground Water, Volume 60, Issue 1, August 2021.
- A semblance measure for model comparison
Michael Commer, Geophysical Journal International Volume 224, Issue 2, November 2020.
- An adaptable technique for comparative image assessment: Application to crosswell electromagnetic survey design for fluid monitoring
Michael Commer, David L. Alumbaugh, Michael Wilt, Abdullah Cihan, Evan S. Um, Robin Petrusak, Jens T. Birkholzer, Geophysics, Volume 86, Issue 3
- Phase II Field Demonstration at Plant Smith Generating Station: Assessment of Opportunities for Optimal Reservoir Pressure Control, Plume Management and Produced Water
Presented by Robert C. Trautz, Carbon Management and Oil and Gas Research Project Review Meeting – Carbon Storage, August 5, 2021.
- Phase II Field Demonstration at Plant Smith Generating Station: An Assessment of Opportunities for Optimal Reservoir Pressure Control, Plume Management and Produced Water Strategies
Presented by Robert C. Trautz, Addressing the Nation’s Energy Needs Through Technology Innovation – 2019 Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage, and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Integrated Review Meeting, August 27, 2019.
- Phase II Field Demonstration at Plant Smith Generating Station: An Assessment of Opportunities for Optimal Reservoir Pressure Control, Plume Management and Produced Water Strategies
Presented by Robert C. Trautz, 2018 Mastering the Subsurface Through Technology Innovation, Partnerships and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting, August 14, 2018.
- Phase II Field Demonstration at Plant Smith Generating Station: An Assessment of Opportunities for Optimal Reservoir Pressure Control, Plume Management and Produced Water Strategies
Presented by Robert C. Trautz, 2017 Mastering the Subsurface Through Technology Innovation, Partnerships and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting, August 3, 2017.
- Phase II Field Demonstration at Plant Smith Generating Station: An Assessment of Opportunities for Optimal Reservoir Pressure Control, Plume Management and Produced Water Strategies
Presented by Robert C. Trautz, 2016 Mastering the Subsurface Through Technology Innovation and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting, August 17, 2016.
- Datasets
- Developing and Validating Pressure Management and Plume Control Strategies in the Williston Basin Through a Brine Extraction and Storage Test (BEST) (FE0026160)
Presented by Marc Kurz, Carbon Management Project Review Meeting – Carbon Transport and Storage, August 31, 2023.
- Developing and Validating Pressure Management and Plume Control Strategies in the Williston Basin Through a Brine Extraction and Storage Test (BEST)
Presented by Ryan Klapperich, Carbon Management Project Review Meeting – Carbon Transport and Storage, August 16, 2022.
- Developing and Validating Reservoir Pressure Management and Plume Control Strategies in the Williston Basin Through a Brine Extraction and Storage Test (BEST)
Presented by Ryan Klapperich, Carbon Management and Oil and Gas Research Project Review Meeting – Carbon Storage, August 5, 2021.
- Developing and Validating Reservoir Pressure Management and Plume Control Strategies in the Williston Basin Through a Brine Extraction and Storage Test (BEST)
Presented by John Hamling, DOE NETL’s 2020 Integrated Project Review Meeting – Carbon Storage, September 8, 2020.
- North Dakota Brine Extraction and Storage Test
Presented by John Hamling, Addressing the Nation’s Energy Needs Through Technology Innovation – 2019 Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage, and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Integrated Review Meeting, August 26, 2019.
- Developing and Validating Reservoir Pressure Management and Plume Control Strategies in the Williston Basin Through a Brine Extraction and Storage Test (BEST) – Phase II
Presented by John Hamling, 2018 Mastering the Subsurface Through Technology Innovation, Partnerships and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting, August 14, 2018.
- Developing and Validating Reservoir Pressure Management and Plume Control Strategies in the Williston Basin Through a Brine Extraction and Storage Test (BEST) – Phase II
Presented by John Hamling, 2017 Mastering the Subsurface Through Technology Innovation, Partnerships and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting, August 3, 2017.
- Developing and Validating Reservoir Pressure Management and Plume Control Strategies in the Williston Basin Through a Brine Extraction and Storage Test (BEST) – Phase II
Presented by John A. Hamling, 2016 Mastering the Subsurface Through Technology Innovation and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting, August 17, 2016.
Phase I – Feasibility Evaluations (Archives)
- Brine Extraction and Treatment Strategies to Enhance Pressure Management and Control of CO2 Plumes in Deep Geologic Formations (Final Report)
Roland Okwen, Scott Frailey, Seyed Dastgheib, June 14, 2017.
- Challenges of Designing, Operating, and Managing Brine Extraction at a Carbon Dioxide Storage Site
Roland Okwen, Scott Frailey, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Volume 109, July 2021
- A Workflow to Assess the Efficiency of Brine Extraction for Managing Injection-Induced Seismicity Potential Using Data from a CO2 Injection Site Near Decatur, Illinois
Oladipupo Babarinde, Roland Okwen, Scott Frailey, Fang Yang, Steven Whittaker, Dustin Sweet, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Voluem 109, July 2021.
- Life Cycle Assessment of Treatment and Handling Options for a Highly Saline Brine Extracted from a Potential CO2 Storage Site
Hafiz H Salih, Jiaxing Li, Ruth Kaplan, Seyed A. Dastgheib, Water Research Volume 122, 1 October 2017, Pages 419-430.
- Treatment of a hypersaline brine, extracted from a potential CO2 sequestration site, and an industrial wastewater by membrane distillation and forward osmosis
Hafiz H. Salih, Seyed A. Dastegheib, Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 325, 1 October 2017, Pages 415-423.
- Assessment of desalination technologies for treatment of a highly saline brine from a potential CO2 storage site
Ruth Kaplan, Darryl Mamrosh, Hafiz H. Salih, Seyed A. Dastegheib, Desalination, Volume 404, 17 February 2017, Pages 87-101.
- Pressure Management and Plume Control Strategies through a Brine Extraction Storage Test at the Devine Test Site in Texas (Phase I Topical Report)
Seyyed A. Hosseini, Jean-Philippe Nicot, April 2016.
- Simulation and 4D seismic studies of pressure management and CO2 plume control by means of brine extraction and monitoring at the Devine Test Site, South Texas, USA
Ali Goudarzi, Seyyed A. Hosseini, Diana Sava, Jean-Philippe Nicot, Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2018, Pages 185-204.
- Geochemical impact of injection of Eagle Ford brine on Housston sandstone formation – Observations of autoclave water-rock interaction experiments
Jiemin Lu, Roxana Darvari, Jean-Philippe Nicot, Patrick Mickler, Seyyed A. Hosseini, Applied Geochemistry, Volume 84, September 2017, Pages 26-40.
- Pressure Management and Plume Control at the Devine Test Site, South Texas by Means of Brine Extraction
Presented by Ali Goudarzi, Seyyed A. Hosseini, 2016 Mastering the Subsurface Through Technology Innovation and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting, Poster Session.
- Field demonstration of an active reservoir pressure management through fluid injection and displaced fluid extractions at the Rock Springs Uplift, a priority geologic CO2 storage site for Wyoming (final report)
Presented by Jared Walker, DOE-NETL’s 2020 Integrated Project Review Meeting – CCUS Integrated Projects, August 18, 2020.
- Field demonstration of an active reservoir pressure management through fluid injection and displaced fluid extractions at the Rock Springs Uplift, a priority geologic CO2 storage site for Wyoming (Topical report)
Zunsheng Jiao, April 15, 2016.
- A Field Demonstration of an Active Reservoir Pressure Management through Fluid Injection and Displaced Fluid Extractions at the Rock Springs Uplift, a Priority Geologic CO2 Storage Site for Wyoming
Zensheng Jiao, Rajesh Pawar, Andrew Duguid, W. Bourcier, C. Haussmann, Kipp Coddington, Dylan Harp, Y. Ganshin, Scott Quillinan, F. McLaughlin, E. Ramsey, Energy Procedia, Volume 114, August 2018.
- Development of robust pressure management strategies for geologic CO2 sequestration
Dylan R. Harp, Philip H. Stauffer, Daniel O’Malley, Zunsheng Jiao, Evan P. Egenolf, Terry A. Miller, Daniella Martinez, Kelsey A. Hunter, Richard S. Middleton, Jeffrey M. Bielicki, Rajesh Pawar, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Volume 64, September 2017, Pages 43-59.
- Offsetting Water Requirements and Stress with Enhanced Water Recovery from CO2 Storage (technical report)
Kelsey Anne Hunter, August 4, 2016.
- Field Implementation Plan for a Willison Basin Brine Extraction and Storage Test (Topical Report)
John A. Hamling, Ryan Klapperich, Daniel Stepan, James Sorensen, Lawrence Pekot, Wesley Peck, Lonny Jacobson, Nicholas Bosshart, John Hurley, William Wilson, Marc Kurz, Shaughn Burnison, Olarninre Salako, Mark Musich, Barry Botnen, Nicholas Kalenze, Scott Ayash, Jun Ge, Tao Jiang, Chantsalmaa Dalkhaa, April 5, 2016.
BEST publications include available reports and presentations. Publications are updated annually. Last update: March 18, 2024.
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