2019 Proceedings - Addressing the Nation’s Energy Needs Through Technology Innovation – 2019 Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage, and Oil and Gas Technologies Integrated Review Meeting - Subsurface Sessions

Subsurface Sessions

Monday

Plains and Northwest 1

• Plains CO₂ Reduction Partnership and Phase III (FC26-05NT42592)
  Charles D. Gorecki, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center
• Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership – Phase III (FC26-05NT42587)
  Lee Spangler, Montana State University, Energy Research Institute
• EERC-DOE Joint Program on Research and Development for Fossil Energy-Related Resources; Subtask 3.1: Related Resources: Bakken-Rich Gas EOR Center (FE0024233)
  James Sorensen, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center
• First-Ever Field Pilot on Alaska’s North Slope to Validate the Use of Polymer Floods for Heavy Oil Enhanced Oil Recovery (FE0031606)
  Abhijit Dandekar, University of Alaska - Fairbanks; Reid Edwards, Hilcarp Alaska LLC

Plains and Northwest 2

• North Dakota Integrated Carbon Storage Complex Feasibility Study (FE0029488)
  Wesley Peck, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center
• Integrated Midcontinent Stacked Carbon Storage Hub (FE0031623)
  Andrew Duguid, Battelle Memorial Institute
• Commercial-Scale Carbon Storage Complex Feasibility Study at Dry Fork Station, Wyoming (FE0031624)
  Scott Quillinan, University of Wyoming
• Developing and Validating Pressure Management and Plume Control Strategies in the Williston Basin Through a Brine Extraction and Storage Test (FE0026160)
  John Hamling, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center

Monitoring 1

• Task 5: Advances in Large-N Seismic Measurements to Monitor Reservoir Behavior (FWP-FEW0191)
  Eric Matzel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
• Task 3: Assessment of Leakage Pathways Using Joint EM-Seismic Borehole and Surface Technologies
• Task 4 Monitoring Technology for Deep CO₂ Injection (FWP-ESD14095)
  Michael Wilt and Pierpaolo Marchesini, LBNL
• Task 2: 2nd Generation SOV DAS (FWP-ESD14095)
  Julia Correa, LBNL
• Development of High Sensitivity Engineered Optical Fiber for Distributed Acoustic Sensing (FWP-FEW0246/FWP-FP00007226)
  Michael Messerly, LLNL
• Task 2: Monitoring for Small Leaks Over Large Areas (FWP-FE-890-18-FY18)
  Youzuo Lin, LANL
• National Risk Assessment Partnership Task 6: Risk-Based Approach to Post-Injection Site Closure
  Bob Dilmore, NETL

National Lab Fundamental Shale Research

• Numerical and Laboratory Investigations for Maximization of Production From Tight/Shale Oil Reservoirs (FWP-FP000008115)
  George Moridis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
• Mechanistic Approach to Analyzing and Improving Unconventional Hydrocarbon Production (FWP-FE406-408-409)
  Hari S. Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Fundamental Chemical and Mechanical Processes for Unconventional Formations (FWP-1022415)
  Ale Hakala, NETL
• Basin-Specific Geochemistry to Improve Unconventional Efficiency (FWP-100211)
  John Bargar, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
• Improved Understanding of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Distribution in Unconventional Reservoir Stimulation (FWP-FP00008256)
  Tetsu Tokunaga and Omotayo Omosebi, LBNL
• Understanding and Controlling Sustainability of Hydraulic Fracture Permeability in Ductile Shales (FWP-FP0008114)
  Seiji Nakagawa, LBNL

Tuesday

Southeast Region 1

• Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Laboratory (FE0031575)
  Mehdi Mokhtari, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory (FE0024297)
  Timothy Carr, West Virginia University
• Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (Cranfield) – Phase III (FC26-05NT42590)
  Sue Hovorka, University of Texas at Austin
• Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (Citronelle) – Phase III (FC26-05NT42590)
  Anne Oudinot, Advanced Resources International

Southeast Region 2

• Establishing an Early Carbon Dioxide Storage Complex in Kemper County, Mississippi: Project ECO₂S (FE0029465)
  Dave Riestenberg, Advanced Resources International
• Phase II Field Demonstration at Plant Smith Generating Station: Assessment of Opportunities for Optimal Reservoir Pressure Control, Plume Management and Produced Water Strategies (DE-FE0026140)
  Robert Trautz, Electric Power Research Institute Inc.
• Offshore Gulf of Mexico Partnership for Carbon Storage – Resources and Technology Development (FE0031558)
  Susan Hovorka, Gulf Coast Carbon Center, Bureau of Economic Geology, JSG, University of Texas at Austin
• Southeast Regional Carbon Storage Partnership: Offshore Gulf of Mexico (FE0031557)
  Michael Godec, Advanced Resources International

Monitoring 2

• Charged Wellbore Casing Controlled Source Electromagnetics for Reservoir Imaging and Monitoring (FE0028320)
  Yaoguo Li, Colorado School of Mines
• New Imaging and CO₂ Storage Technologies for Unconventional Subsurface Reservoirs (FWP-70066)
  Quin Miller, PNNL
• Integration of Seismic-Pressure-Petrophysics Inversion of Continuous Active-Seismic Monitoring Data for Monitoring and Quantifying CO₂ Plume (FE0031544)
  Tieyuan Zhu, Pennsylvania State University
• Joint Inversion of Time-Lapse Seismic Data (FE0031540)
  César Barajas-Olalde, University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center
• Robust Carbon Dioxide Imaging Using Joint Tomographic Inversion of Seismic Onset Time and Distributed Pressure and Temperature Measurements (FE0031625)
  Akhil Dattagupta, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• Geochemical Impacts and Signals of CO₂ in Groundwater
  Christina Lopano and Ale Hakala, NETL

Hydraulic Fracturing Technologies

• Passive Acoustic Metamaterial Proppants for Advanced Hydraulic Fracture Diagnostics (SC0017738)
  Jacob Pollock, Oceanit Laboratories Inc.
• Development and Field Testing Novel Natural Gas Surface Process Equipment for Replacement of Water as Primary Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid (FE0024314)
  Griffin Beck, Southwest Research Institute
• A New Framework for Microscopic- to Reservoir- Scale Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing and Production: Testing with Comprehensive Data From HFTS and Other Hydraulic Fracturing Field Test Sites (FWP-100480/FWP-FEW0250/FWPFP00008049)
  Jens Birkholzer, LBNL; Joe Morris, LLNL
• Enhancing Unconventional Reservoir Ultimate Recoveries with In-Situ Nano-Catalysts (TCF-18-15390)
  Randall Winans, Argonne National Laboratory
• Injection and Tracking of Micro Seismic Emitters to Optimize Unconventional Oil and Gas Development (FE0024360)
  Bjorn Paulsson, Paulsson Inc.
• Development of a Low-Noise Optical Interrogator for Interferometric Sensing Technologies (SC0017729)
  Michael T.V. Wylie, Paulsson Inc.
• Development of a Distributed Optical Sensor Array for Improved Subsurface Characterization and Monitoring (SC0017222)
  Michael T.V. Wylie, Paulsson Inc.

Wednesday

Texas Region

• Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site I, Midland Basin, West Texas (FE0024292)
  Jordan Ciezobka, Gas Technology Institute
• Eagle Ford Shale Laboratory South Texas (FE0031579)
  A. Dan Hill, Texas A&M University
• Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site II, Delaware Basin, West Texas (FE0031577)
  Jordan Ciezobka, Gas Technology Institute
• Southwest Regional Partnership Phase 3: Transition to Post-Injection Monitoring of CCUS in an Active Oil Field (FC26-05NT42591)
  Brian McPherson, Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration

Midwest Region

• Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (FC26-05NT42589)
  Neeraj Gupta, Battelle Memorial Institute
• Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium Update (FC26-05NT42588)
  Sallie Greenberg, University of Illinois
• Wabash CarbonSAFE (FE0031626)
  Christopher Korose, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• CarbonSAFE Macon County Illinois (FE0029381)
  Steve Whittaker, Illinois State Geological Survey

Monitoring 3

• Active Seismic Monitoring of CO₂ Leakage Through a Hydromechanically Reactivated Fault Caprock Integrity Monitoring for a Geological Carbon Sequestration Site Analog: Validating a CASSM Monitoring System (FWP-FP00007630)
  Jens Birkholzer and Yves Guglielmi, LBNL
• RIC Task 25: Long-Period, Long-Duration (LPLD) Seismic Events Observed at Two CO₂ EOR Locations
  Rick Hammack, NETL
• National Risk Assessment Partnership: Strategic Monitoring for Uncertainty Reduction
  Erika Gasperikova, LBNL
• Monitoring of Geological CO₂ Sequestration Using Isotopes and PF Tracers (FWP-FEAA045)
  Joachim Moortgat, ORNL

Offshore

• Offshore High Resolution 3D Seismic Data Over the Active CO₂ Injection Site at Tomakomai, Japan (FE0028193)
  Tip Meckel, University of Texas at Austin
• Hexagonal Boron Nitrate-Reinforced Multifunctional Well Cement for Extreme Conditions (FE0031574)
  Rouzbeh Shahsavari, C-Crete Technologies Inc.
• In-Situ Applied Coatings for Mitigating Gas Hydrate Deposition in Deepwater (FE0031578)
  Carolyn Koh, Colorado School of Mines
• An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Response, NETL’s Big Data Technologies for Offshore Spill Prevention
  Kelly Rose, NETL

Geologic Storage

• National Risk Assessment Partnership Task 2: Containment Assurance
  Dylan Harp, LANL
• Task 4: Active Reservoir Management (FEW-0191)
  Thomas Buscheck, LLNL
• National Risk Assessment Partnership Task 5: Application of Risk Assessment Tools and Methodologies to Synthetic and Field Data
  Diana Bacon, PNNL
• Development of Defensible CO₂ Storage Methods and Tools to Quantify Prospective Storage in the Subsurface
  Angela Goodman and Kelly Rose, NETL

Offshore

• Northern Gulf of Mexico Offshore CO₂ Storage Assessment: Final Results (FE0026083)
  Tip Meckel, University of Texas at Austin
• Mid-Atlantic U.S. Offshore Carbon Storage Resource Assessment Project (FE0026087)
  Neeraj Gupta, Battelle Memorial Institute
• Southeast Offshore Storage Resource Assessment (FE0026086)
  James Knapp and Jack Pashin, Oklahoma State University
• Corrosion-Resistant Aluminum Components for Improved Cost and Performance of Ultra- Deepwater Offshore Oil Production (FWP-072971)
  Glenn Grant, PNNL

Thursday

Subsurface Stress 1

• Refining Principal Stress Measurements in Reservoir Underburden in Regions of Induced Seismicity Through Seismological Tools, Laboratory Experiments and Theory (FE0031687)
  Laura Chiaramonte, Electric Power Reseach Institute
• Identification of Faults Susceptible to Induced Seismicity (FE0031685)
  Scott Frailey, Illinois State Geological Survey
• A Non-Invasive Approach for Mapping Stress in Subsurface Geologic Formations Considered for CO₂ Sequestration (FE0031686)
  Mark Kelley, Battelle Memorial Institute
• Improving Subsurface Stress Characterization for Carbon Dioxide Storage Projects by Incorporating Machine Learning Techniques (FE0031684)
  Robert Will, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
• Development of Thermal Breakout Technology for Determining In-Situ Stress (FE0031688)
  Jay Nopola, RESPEC
• Task 5: U.S.-Japan Collaboration on Fiber Optic Technology (FWP-ESD14095)
  Pierre Jean, LBNL

Wellbore Integrity and Mitigation 1

• Reactive Flow Through Experiments – A Look at Foamed Cement and CO₂ Resistant Cements
  Barbara Kutchko, NETL
• Methods to Enhance Wellbore Cement Integrity with Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation (FE0024296)
  Adrienne Phillips, Montana State University
• Nanoparticle Injection Technology for Remediating Leaks of CO₂ Storage Formation (FE0026514)
  Mija Hubler, University of Colorado
• Improving Wellbore Integrity and Diagnostics- Scanite for Well Integrity (SC0018836)
  Jacob Pollock, Oceanit Laboratories Inc.
• Wellbore Leakage Mitigation Using Advanced Mineral Precipitation Strategies (FE0026513)
  Adrienne Phillips, Montana State University
• Programmable Sealant-Loaded Mesoporous Nanoparticles for Gas/Liquid Leakage Mitigation (FE0026511)
  Rouzbeh Shahsavari, C-Crete Technologies Inc.

Subsurface Stress 2

• National Risk Assessment Partnership Task 3: Induced Seismicity Risk
  Joshua White, LLNL
• Task 4: Monitoring for Faults at a Critical State of Stress (FWP-FE-890-18-Y18)
  Ting Chen, LANL
• Poroelastic Sustainability of Pressure-Driven Fracture in Carbon Storage Reservoir and its Implication for Injectivity and Caprock Integrity (FEW-0191)
  Pengcheng Fu, LLNL
• Robust In-Situ Strain Measurements to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Storage (FE0028292)
  Larry Murdoch, Clemson University

Associated CO₂ Storage/EOR

• Optimizing CO₂ Sweep Based on Geochemical and Reservoir Characterization of the Residual Oil Zone of Hess Seminole Unit (FE0024375)
  Bo Ren, University of Texas at Austin
• Stacked Greenfield and Brownfield ROZ Fairways in the Illinois Basin Geo-Laboratory: Co- Optimization of EOR and Associated CO₂ Storage (FE0031700)
  Nathan Webb, Illinois State Geological Survey; University of Illinois

Wellbore Integrity and Mitigation 2

• Well Integrity Atlas: Review of CO₂ Storage Projects and Research Needs (FEW-0191)
  Susan Carroll, LLNL
• Autonomous Monitoring of Wellbore Integrity Applying Time Reverse Nonlinear Elastic Wave Spectroscopy (TR NEWS) and Fiber Optic Sensing and Communication (FWP-FE-853-17-FY17)
  Paul Johnson and Carly Donahue, LANL
• Embedded Sensor Technology Suite for Wellbore Integrity Monitoring (FWP-1022435)
  Paul Ohodnicki, NETL
• Experimental Validation of Self-Sealing of Wellbore Cement (FWP-FE-890-18-FY18)
  Bill Carey, LANL
• High-Resolution 3D Acoustic Borehole Integrity Monitoring System (FWP-FE-855-17-FY17)
  Cristian Pantea, LANL
• Well Integrity for Unconventional Reservoirs (FWP-1022415)
  Barbara Kutchko, NETL

Associated CO₂ Storage/EOR

• Developing CO₂-EOR and Associated Storage Within the Residual Oil Zone Fairways of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming
  Steven Carpenter, University of Wyoming Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute
• Williston Basin-Associated CO₂ Storage Field Laboratory (FE0031694)
  Steven A. Smith, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center
• Task 3: Storage and Trapping of CO₂ in Multiphase Systems (FWP-FE-890-18-FY18)
  Rajesh Pawar, LANL
• Task 2: PFT Analysis Using Capillary Absorption Tubes-Hydrocarbon-Rich Matrix (FWP-FEAA045)
  David Graham, ORNL

Intelligent Monitoring Systems

• Development of a Framework for Data Integration, Assimilation and Learning for Geological Carbon Sequestration (FE0026515)
  Alexander Sun, University of Texas at Austin
• Intelligent Monitoring Systems and Advanced Well Integrity and Mitigation (FE0026517)
  Julia Correa, LBNL

Natural Gas Infrastructure Technologies

• Remote Methane Sensor for Emissions from Pipelines and Compressor Stations Using Chirped- Laser Dispersion Spectroscopy (FE0029059)
  Mark Zondlo, Princeton University
• Novel Seal Design for Effective Mitigation of Methane Emissions from Reciprocating Compressors (FE0029021)
  Tim Allison, Southwest Research Institute
• Emission Inventories from Natural Gas Storage Facilities Using Regional Frequency Comb Laser Monitoring and Aircraft Flyovers (FE0029168)
  Greg Rieker, University of Colorado
• Smart Methane Emission Detection System Development (FE0029020)
  Heath Spidle, Southwest Research Institute
• In-Situ Pipeline Coatings for Methane Emissions Mitigation and Quantification from Natural Gas Infrastructure (FE0029069)
  Matthew Nakatsuka, Oceanit Laboratories Inc.
• Sensor-Enabled Coatings for Methane Release Mitigation (FE0029062)
  Cynthia Kutchko, PPG Industries Inc.

Friday

Gas Hydrates

• Alaska Natural Gas Hydrate Production Testing: Test Site Selection, Characterization, and Testing Operations
  Ray Boswell, NETL
• Deepwater Methane Hydrate Characterization and Scientific Assessment in Gulf of Mexico
  Peter Flemings, University of Texas at Austin
• Coupled Hydrologic, Thermodynamic, and Geomechanical Processes of Natural Gas Hydrate Production
  Mark White, PNNL
• Numerical Studies for the Characterization of Recoverable Resources From Methane Hydrate Deposits
  George Moridis, LBNL
• Behavior of Sediments Containing Methane Hydrate, Water, and Gas Subjected to Gradients and Changing Conditions
  Timothy J. Kneafsey, LBNL
• Natural Gas Hydrates Research NETL-RIC
  Yongkoo Seol, NETL