Proceedings of the 2017 Mastering the Subsurface through Technology Innovation, Partnerships and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting
Proceedings of the 2017 Mastering the Subsurface through Technology Innovation, Partnerships and Collaboration: Carbon Storage and Oil and Natural Gas Technologies Review Meeting
August 1-3, 2017
**Additional posters and presentations will be posted as they are received.**
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
PRESENTATIONS
- Welcome and Introduction
Jared Ciferno, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- National Risk Assessment Partnership: New Technologies for Subsurface Risk
Grant Bromhal, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy
Robert Dilmore, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Michigan Basin, Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership
Neeraj Gupta, Battelle Memorial Institute
- Farnsworth Unit, Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration
Robert Balch, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
Brian McPherson, University of Utah
- Kevin Dome, Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership
Lee Spangler, Energy Research Institute, Montana State University
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
PRESENTATIONS
- Welcome and Introduction
Traci Rodosta, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Welcome Address
Dr. Grace M. Bochenek, Director, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Office of Fossil Energy Budget Overview
Angelos Kokkinos, U.S. Department of Energy, Director, Office of Advanced Fossil Technology Systems
- Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) Overview
Robert Vagnetti, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Illinois Basin - Decatur Project, Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium
Sallie Greenberg, Illinois State Geological Survey
- Bell Creek Field Project, Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership
Charles Gorecki, University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center
Thursday, August 3, 2017
PRESENTATIONS
- Welcome
Traci Rodosta, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Jared Ciferno, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Cranfield Project, Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership
Susan Hovorka, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin
- Citronelle Project, Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership
Robert Trautz, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
David Riestenberg, Advanced Resources International (ARI)
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
- A 3C Fiber Optic Borehole Seismic Receiver Vector Array used to Characterize and Monitor the Subsurface
Björn N.P. Paulsson, Paulsson, Inc.
- Simulating Transport of Perfluorocarbon Tracers in the Cranfield Geological Carbon Sequestration Project
Joachim Moortgat, Ohio State University
- Automated High Power Permanent Borehole Seismic Source Systems for Long-Term Subsurface Monitoring
Howard Wilkinson, GPUSA Inc.
- Combining Pore-scale Simulation Capabilities with NETL’s Geoimaging Lab Facilities to Develop Digital Rock Technologies for Geologic Carbon Sequestration and Oil & Gas Applications
Cheng Chen, Virginia Tech
- Adaptive Homogenization for Upscaling Heterogeneous Porous Media
Gurpreet Singh, Center for Subsurface Modeling University of Texas
- International Update on Monitoring from IEAGHG Monitoring Network
Tim Dixon, IEAGHG
- International Update on Offshore CCS
Tim Dixon, IEAGHG
- Reactive Transport Model Validation for Prediction of Porosity and Permeability
Megan M. Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Simulations and Reduced Order Modeling of Chemical and Mechanical Processes in CO2-Cement Systems
Susan Carroll, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- A Simplified Method for Source Attribution and Quantification in the Near-Surface
Katherine Romanak, University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology
- Advanced Characterization of Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs to Enhance CO2 Storage Resource Estimates – Organic Structure and Porosity of Organic-Rich Shale
Bethany Kurz, University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center
- CarbonSAFE Illinois: Geologic Workflows for Characterizing Commercial-Scale Geologic Storage of CO2
Steve Whittaker, Illinois State Geological Survey, University of Illinois
- Fracture Mapping and Feasibility of Monitoring CO2 In Situ from Seismic Data at the Mississippian Carbonate Reservoir, Wellington Oil Field, South-Central Kansas
Keith Nolte, University of Kansas
- Monitoring Seismicity Near an Active CO2 EOR Injection
Keith Nolte, University of Kansas
- Field Testing Borehole Gravity for Monitoring CO2
Lydia Cumming, Battelle Memorial Institute
- High-Fidelity Simulation of CO2-Induced Carbonate Dissolution: From Core to Reservoir Scale
Yue Hao, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- The Influence of Pre-Slip Healing on the Evolution of Permeability on Fractures and Faults
Kyungjae Im, Penn State
- Gas Mobility Control Techniques During CO2 Sequestration in Cranfield
Xueying Lu, University of Texas at Austin
- Laser-Based Sensors for MVA at Wellheads and Subsurface Storage Sites
Michael B. Frish, Physical Sciences Inc.
- Fiber Optic Downhole CO2 Sensor for GCS MVA
Richard T. Wainner, Physical Sciences Inc.
- Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage for North Dakota Ethanol Production
Charles Gorecki, University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center
- A Black-Oil Type Approach to Model Produced Gas Injection for Enhanced Recovery
Bahareh Nojabaei, Virginia Tech
- Ion-Beam Analysis for Non-Destructive Characterization of the Composition and Structure of Shale
Khalid Hossain, Amethyst Research, Inc.
- The Effectiveness of Multiple Monitoring Techniques for Detection of Brine and CO2 Leakage in Shallow Aquifers
Xianjin Yang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Reaction and Diffusion at the Reservoir/Shale Interface During CO2 Storage
Victor Balashov, Penn State
- Reactive Transport Modeling of Water-CO2 Interactions in the Farnsworth Unit, Texas
Martin Appold, University of Missouri
- Development of a Risk Assessment Methodology for Assessing Long Term Storage of Carbon Dioxide in Ohio’s Depleted Oil Fields
Justin Glier, Battelle Memorial Institute
- Relative Permeability for Water and Air Through Fractured Cement
Kenton Rod, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Polymer with Self-Healing Properties for Use as a Composite in Wellbore Cement
Kenton Rod, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) in a CO2-EOR Complex
Sanjay R. Mawalkar, Battelle Memorial Institute
- Assignment and Calibration of Relative Permeability by Hydrostratigraphic Units: A Novel Approach for Multiphase Flow Analyses
Nathan Moodie, University of Utah
- Robust Flash Calculation Algorithm for Microemulsion Phase Behavior
Saeid Khorsandi, Penn State
- Front-Tracking Solutions for CO2 Injectivity Analysis Considering Gas Trapping
Liwei Li, Penn State
- Equation of State Approach for Modeling of Relative Permeabilities
Saeid Khorsandi, Penn State
- Using 3D Vertical Seismic Profile to Monitor the CO2 Plume in a CCUS/EOR Project
George El-kaseeh, Schlumberger Carbon Services
- Arsenic Mobilization in Shallow Aquifers due to CO2 and Brine Intrusion from Storage Reservoirs
Brian McPherson, University of Utah
- Monitoring of CCS/CCUS Using Charged Wellbore CSEM
Trevor Irons, University of Utah
- Pore Scale Modeling and Interpretation of Borehole NMR Logs at the Farnsworth Unit
Trevor Irons, University of Utah
- Modeling Time-lapse Seismic Monitoring Data for Early CO2 Leakage Detection Using Leakage Simulations at the FutureGen 2.0 Site
Zan Wang, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- CO2 Pipeline Cost Analysis Utilizing a Modified FE/NETL CO2 Transport Cost Model Tool
Martin Dubois, Improved Hydrocarbon, LLC
- Class VI Injection Permit - Salient Features and Regulatory Challenges - Lessons Learned from the Wellington, Kansas, Demonstration Project
Tiraz Birdie, TBirdie Consulting
- Seismic Risk Evaluation at the Wellington, Kansas, CO2 Geologic Storage Site
Tiraz Birdie, TBirdie Consulting
- Probabilistic Risk Assessment of CO2 Trapping Mechanisms in a Sandstone CO2-EOR Field in Northern Texas, USA
Brian McPherson, University of Utah
- Hydrated Portland Cement as a Carbonic Cement: Self Sealing and CO2 Resistance
George Guthrie, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Characterization and Preliminary Feasibility Assessment of CO2 Storage and Containment Resources in Deep Saline Cambrian-Ordovician Formations in Eastern Ohio
Priya Ravi Ganesh, Battelle Memorial Institute
- Co-optimization of CO2-EOR and Storage Processes under Geological Uncertainty
William Ampomah, Petroleum Recovery Research Center
- CO2 and CH4 Leak Detection Using Eddy Covariance Methods
Richard Esser, Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration and the University of Utah
- Pore Scale Control of Gas and Fluid Transport at Shale Matrix-Fracture Interfaces
John Bargar, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Vertical Seismic Profiling with Distributed Acoustic Sensing for pre CO2-EOR Baseline Monitoring in a Pinnacle Reef Reservoir
Mark Kelley, Battelle Memorial Institute
- Microseismic Monitoring During CO2 Injection in a Pinnacle Reef Reservoir
Mark Kelley, Battelle Memorial Institute
- Characterization of CO2 Interactions with the Utica Shale via In Situ Infrared Spectroscopy and Feature Relocation using Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy
Sean Sanguinito, AECOM, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Ultrasonic Seismic Wave Elastic Moduli, λp-μp Space and Attenuation: Petrophysical Models and Work Flows for Better Subsurface Imaging, and Tracking of Sequestered CO2
William Harbert, National Energy Technology Laboratory/University of Pittsburgh
- Development of Criteria to Identify the Leakage Potential of Wells in Depleted Oil and Gas Fields for CO2 Geological Sequestration
Muhammad Zulqarnain, Louisiana State University
- Risk Based Monitoring Designs for CO2 Leakage through Abandoned Wellbores
Catherine Yonkofski, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Weakening Effects of Microstructural Tribological Films in CO2-altered Reservoirs and Caprocks
Chaoyi Wang, Penn State
- Novel Approaches to Efficiently Quantify Behavior and Uncertainties for CNES Based on Full Physics Predictions
Dylan Harp, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Numerical Modeling within Poro-elastic Solids: Two-way Coupling of Fracture and Fluid Flow
Pania Newell, The University of Utah
- Poroelastic Properties of the Arbuckle Group in Oklahoma Derived from the Co-seismic Pore-fluid Pressure Response Following the Mw5.8 Pawnee Earthquake
Joshua A. White on behalf of Kayla A. Kroll, E. S. Cochran, and K. E. Murray, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Experiences from the Application of Near-Surface CO2 and Site Monitoring Techniques at the Illinois Basin - Decatur Project
Curt Blakley, Illinois State Geological Survey
- An Overview of the Illinois Basin - Decatur Project Groundwater Compliance Monitoring
Abbas Iranmanesh, Illinois State Geological Survey
- Evaluating Potential Geochemical Effects of Dissolved CO2 on Glacial Aquifer Materials at the Illinois Basin - Decatur Project (IBDP)
Bracken T. Wimmer, Illinois State Geological Survey
- SECARB Site & Regional Commercialization Plan
Brian W. Hill, Southern States Energy Board
- Expandable Proppants for In-Situ Stimulation
Andrew Sherman, Terves, Inc.
- Water Alternating Gas (WAG) Cycling to Optimize CO2 Mineralization for Geological Carbon Storage
David Goldberg, Mark White, and Inci Demirkanli, Columbia University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Fault Permeability and CO2 Migration in the Overburden: Implications for Secure CO2 Storage
James Craig, IEAGHG
- Water Interactions with Shales, and Impacts on Gas Mobilization into Fractures
Tetsu Tokunaga, Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Integration of Wellbore Pressure Measurement and Groundwater Quality Monitoring to Enhance Detectability of Brine and CO2 Leakage
Robert Dilmore, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Detecting Subsurface Fluid Leaks in Real-Time Using Injection and Production Rates
Harpreet Singh, ORISE Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Monitoring, Verification and Accounting Protocols Applied at the SECARB Anthropogenic Test Site at Citronelle, Alabama
John Ryan MacGregor, Advanced Resources International
- Geologic Characterization of the Kemper CO2 Storage Complex – Initial Findings
Shawna Cyphers, Advanced Resources International
- CO2 Absorbent Particle Gel for Carbon Storage with Enhanced Oil Recovery
Adriane Melnyczuk, Missouri University of Science and Technology