Carbon Storage R&D Project Review Meeting
Meeting Summary
Presentations
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
OPENING PLENARY SESSION - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
- Transforming Technology Through Integration and Collaboration
Grace M. Bochenek, Ph.D., Director, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- DOE’s Clean Coal RD&D Program
Mark Ackiewicz, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
- Overview of the Norwegian RD&D CCS Program (CLIMIT)
Hans Jörg Fell, Gassnova
- IEAGHG Monitoring Network Panel Discussion
Panel Chair: Tim Dixon, Manager Technical Programme and CCS Regulatory Affairs
Panel: Katherine Romanak, University of Texas at Austin; Owain Tucker, Shell; Tom Daley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Don Lawton, CMC Research Institutes, Inc.
- International Projects Monitoring Panel Discussion
Representatives from Major International Projects
Panel Chair: Tim Dixon, Manager Technical Programme and CCS Regulatory Affairs
Panel: Scott McDonald, Archer Daniels Midland Company; Owain Tucker, Shell; Philip Ringrose, Statoil ASA; Kyle Worth, Petroleum Technology Research Centre; Simon O’Brien, Shell
- Department of Interior-Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
Melissa Batum, U.S. Department of Interior, BOEM
PLENARY SESSION - REGIONAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION PARTNERSHIPS SALINE INJECTION LARGE-SCALE FIELD PROJECTS
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
WELCOME - PLENARY SESSION
- Energy Frontier Research Centers
Larry Lake, University of Texas at Austin; Scott Frailey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
Donald DePaolo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Subsurface Technology and Engineering Research, Development, and Demonstration (SubTER) Crosscut Initiative
Thiyaga P. Thiyagarajan, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Science; Olayinka Ogunsola, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, Oil and Gas Research; Eric Hass, U.S. Department of Energy, Geothermal Technologies Office
- National Risk Assessment Partnership
Executive Committee Members:
Grant Bromhal and Cynthia Powell, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Donald DePaolo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Melissa Fox, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Roger Aines, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Alain Bonneville, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PLENARY SESSION - REGIONAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION PARTNERSHIPS ASSOCIATED STORAGE LARGE-SCALE FIELD PROJECTS
- Cranfield Project, Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership
Kimberly Sams-Gray, Southern States Energy Board
Panel: Sue Hovorka, Seyyed Hossieni, and
Changbing Yang, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology
- Bell Creek Field Project, Plains CO2 Reduction Partnership
Charles Gorecki, Energy & Environmental Research Center
- Farnsworth Unit, Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration
Reid Grigg, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Panel: Robert Balch, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Brian McPherson, University of Utah
Thursday, August 20, 2015
WELCOME - PLENARY SESSION
REGIONAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION PARTNERSHIPS CARBONATES LARGE-SCALE FIELD PROJECTS
Poster Presentations
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
- Exhibit Booth for the MGSC and STEP
Kathy Atchley, Illinois State Geological Survey
- Integration of Near-Surface Monitoring Information Using ArcGIS at the Illinois Basin – Decatur Project, USA
Randy Locke, Illinois State Geological Survey
- Evaluation of Statistical Methods for CCS-Related Groundwater Monitoring Programs Based on Illinois Basin – Decatur Project Monitoring
Randy Locke, Illinois State Geological Survey
- Clay Mineralogy and Pore-Scale Characterization During and After CO2 Flow and Saturation in the Mt. Simon Sandstone, Illinois Basin, USA
Sallie Greenberg, Illinois State Geological Survey
- Field testing the applicability of InSAR for Monitoring Geologic Storage
Lydia Cumming, Battelle Memorial Institute
- A Systematic Assessment of CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Co-Sequestration Potential in Ohio’s Depleted Oilfields
Caitlin McNeil, Srikanta Mishra, Battelle Memorial Institute
- PCOR Partnership-Multifaceted and Multilevel Outreach
Daniel J Daly, Energy & Environmental Research Center
- The Adaptive Management Approach to CCS Project Planning: The Fort Nelson CCS Project as a Case Study
James Sorensen, Energy & Environmental Research Center
- Effects of Reservoir Temperature and Percent Levels of Methane and Ethane on CO2/Oil MMP Values as Determined Using Vanishing Interfacial Tension/Capillary Rise
Steven B Hawthorne, Energy & Environmental Research Center
- Guiding MVA Deployment Using Near-Real-Time History Matching at the Aquistore Site
Wesley Peck, Energy & Environmental Research Center
- Long-Term Protection of Freshwater Resources
Ryan Klapperich, Energy & Environmental Research Center and The Ceter Group
- MVA Activities – SWP Farnsworth Unit Project
Richard Esser, Southwest Partnership
- Probabilistic Risk Assessment of CO2 Sequestration in the Farnsworth EOR Field
Feng Pan, Southwest Partnership
- Potential Chemical Impacts of CO2 Leakage on Underground Source of Drinking Water (USDWs) Assessed by Quantitative Risk Analysis
Ting Xiao, Southwest Partnership
- Impact of Three-Phase Relative Permeability and Hysteresis Models on CO2 Sequestration in CO2-EOR
Wei Jia, Brian McPherson, Southwest Partnership
- Impacts of Relative Permeability on CO2 Phase Behavior, Phase Distribution and Trapping Mechanisms
Nathan Moodie, Southwest Partnership
- Geologic Characterization for CO2-EOR Simulation: a Case Study of the Farnsworth Unit, Anadarko Basin, Texas
Robert Balch, Southwest Partnership
- Integrating CO2-EOR and CO2 Storage in Farnsworth Field
R. B. Grigg, W. Ampomah, D. Gundah, Southwest Partnership
- Geophysical Modeling and Interpretation of 3-D Seismic Data from Farnsworth Unit, TX
Robert Balch, Ashley Hutton, Southwest Partnership
- Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership Booth
Lindsey Tollefson, Stacey Fairweather, Lee Spangler, Big Sky
- Core Analysis to Characterize Caprock and Injection Intervals, Kevin Dome Phase III Project
Stacey Fairweather, Big Sky
- Modeling CO2 Injection into Fractured Duperow Formation at Kevin Dome Using a Multi-Continuum Approach
Quanlin Zhou, Big Sky
- Developing a CCS Project at a Greenfield site: a case example in northern Montana
Lindsey Tollefson, Big Sky
- An operational plan for safe and effective CO2 injection at Wellington Field, Kansas (DE-FE0006821) in perspective of recent, nearby seismic activity
W. Lynn Watney, Kansas Geological Survey, The University of Kansas
- Modeling and Monitoring barriers in Cased Wellbores
Runar Nygaard, Missouri University of Science and Technology
- The Greenhouse gas Laser Imaging Tomography Experiment (GreenLITE): Measuring Ground-Based 2-D Distribution CO2 over an Extended Field of Interest
T. Scott Zaccheo, Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc.
- Experimental and Computational Investigations of Fracture Propagation in Geomaterials
Pania Newell, Sandia National Laboratories
- Double torsion fracture mechanics testing of CO2 reservoir caprocks
Peter Eichhubl, University of Texas at Austin
- Geomechanical Assessment of Fractured Cambrian-Ordovician Reservoirs in Northern Appalachian basin for Carbon Storage
Ola Babarinde, Battelle Memorial Institute
- Operational Flexibility of CO2 Transport and Storage
Melanie D Jensen, Energy & Environmental Research Center
- Collection and Analysis of Perfluorocarbon Tracer Compounds
David Blaushild, AECOM/NETL
- Energy Data eXchange (EDX) - NETL's Collaboration-Coordination Framework
Kelly Rose, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Numerical simulation of pressure and CO2 saturation above the fractured seal as a result of CO2 injection: implications for monitoring network design
Liwei Zhang, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- National Carbon Sequestration database and Geographic Information System (NATCARB)
Maneesh Sharma or Kelly Rose, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Preliminary results of 3-D Micro-CT imaging of Mt. Simon reservoir rock
John Tudek, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Monitoring Geological CO2 Sequestration using Perfluorocarbon and Stable Isotopes Tracers
David E Graham, Susan M Pfiffner, Tommy J Phelps, David R Cole, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, XCEL Engineering, and Ohio State University
- Geological characterization and modeling of the Cypress Sandstone at Noble Field, southeastern Illinois
Nathan D Webb, Nathan P Grigsby, Illinois State Geological Survey
- CO2 Resistant Cationic Nanoparticles to Enhance Flooding Sweep Efficiency
Lizhu Wang, Jiaming Geng, Baojun Bai, Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Monetizing Geologic CO2 Storage Leakage Risk
Jeffrey M Bielicki, Ohio State University
- Leakage Attribution: Will baselines be enough?
Katherine Romanak, The University of Texas at Austin
- Impact of mineral reactive surface area approximations on predictions
Elizabeth Mitnick, University of California-Berkeley
- 3D Fracture Propagation Modeling using Phase Field
Sanghyun Lee, University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
- State of Stress Beyond the Borehole: Predicting reservoir response to injection
David Coblentz, Paul Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- A multi-variate examination of the cause(s) of increasing induced seismicity events using
geoscience computing & big data techniques
Kelly Rose, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Borehole Muon Detector for 4D Density Tomography of Subsurface Reservoirs
Alain Bonneville, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Imaging fracture networks using crosshole seismic logging and change detection techniques
Hunter A Knox, Sandia National Laboratories
- Design of Fit-for-Purpose Cement to Restore Cement-Caprock Seal Integrity
Edward Matteo, Sandia National Laboratories and University of Texas at Austin
- Invasion percolation modeling of intermediate-scale experiments for buoyancy-driven flow characterization
Hongkyu Yoon, Sandia National Laboratories
- Upscaling of Mixing-controlled Reactive Transport
Kirsten Chojnicki, Sandia National Laboratories
- Ganglion dynamics model for understanding and promoting capillary trapping in geologic carbon storage
Mario J. Martinez, Sandia National Laboratories
- Discrete fracture and flow modeling using general polyhedral grids and cohesive fracture models
Tom Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories
- The Wettability of Caprock by CO2 and Its Impact on Geologic CO2 Sequestration
Eric Guiltinan, Sandia National Laboratories and University of Texas at Austin
- Semi-brittle deformation and its relevance to Carbon-Capture-and-Storage (CCS) efforts
Nicholas W. Hayman, University of Texas
- Simulation of the Cranfield CO2 Injection Site with a Drucker-Prager Plasticity Model
Ben Ganis, University of Texas at Austin
- Micromechanical tests and geochemical modeling to evaluate evolution of rock alteration by CO2-water mixtures
Michael Aman, University of Texas at Austin
- Fracture mechanics and seal capacity in a natural CO2 system
Peter Eichhubl, University of Texas at Austin
- Noble Gas Partitioning in Two-Phase Flow
Toti Larson, University of Texas at Austin
- Understanding Buoyancy-driven CO2 Migration in Heterogeneous Media for Storage Capacity Estimation
Tip Meckel, Prasanna G Krishnamurthy, Luca Trevisan, University of Texas at Austin
- Geophysics Role in GSCO2 Research Center
Alexander Klokov, EFRC: Center for Geologic Storage of CO2
- Monitoring CO2 Injection Using Direct and Converted P-and S-Waves Obtained by 3D VSP
Alexander Klokov, EFRC: Center for Geologic Storage of CO2
- GSCO2 Geosciences: Understanding Candidate CO2 Reservoirs
Robert Ritzi, Jason Thomason, James Best, David Dominic, Bruce Fouke, EFRC: Center for Geologic Storage of CO2
- GSCO2 Geomechanics Theme: Investigating Injection-Induced Pressure Transients
Volkar Oye, Robert Bauer, Bettina Goertz-Allmann, Sergey Stanchits, Pierre Cerasi, Robert Will, Don Lee, EFRC: Center for Geologic Storage of CO2
- Pore-Scale Phenomena Affecting the Transport and Fate of supercritical CO2 in Geological Reservoirs
Ken Christensen, Notre Dame University
- Multiscale Flow and Transport of CO2 in Saline Reservoirs
Charles Werth, University of Texas at Austin
- Center for Nano-scale Controls on Geologic CO2: New Insights on CO2 Trapping
Donald J DePaolo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Impact of mineral reactive surface area approximations on predictions of mineral dissolution rates in a CO2 injection experiment
Elizabeth Mitnick, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Effects of Wettability on CO2 Behavior in Mineral Media
Tim Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Nanoscale aspects of CO2 storage in geologic formations
Gernot Rother, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Properties of Bulk and Pore-Confined CO2 and CO2-Rich Fluids: New Experimental Approaches
M. S. Gruskiewicz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Multi-Scale X-Ray Microtomography Imaging of Immiscible Fluids After Imbibition
Charlotte Garing, Stanford University
- Direct Numerical Simulation of Pore-Scale Two-Phase Flow
Motaz Abu AlSaud, Stanford University
- NETL Storage CO2 Resource Estimation Excel aNalysis (SCREEN)
Sean Sanguinito, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Downhole Optical Sensor for Detecting CO2 in Brine
Richard Wainner, Physical Sciences Incorporated
- NETL Crosscutting Technology Research for Sensors Applicable to CO2 Storage
Barbara Carney and others, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- NETL Crosscutting Technology Research for Water Management R&D Applicable to CO2 Storage
Barbara Carney and others, National Energy Technology Laboratory