| Development of Thermal Breakout Technology for Determining In Situ Stress |  |  |
Project Information
| Prime Performer: | RESPEC Company, LLC | Location: | Rapid City, SD | |
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| Project Duration: | 10/01/2018 - 09/30/2025 | Agreement Number: | FE0031688 | |
| Technology Area: | Advanced Storage | Total Award Value: | $4,238,646 | |
| Key Technology: | Subsurface Stress | DOE Share: | $3,289,072 | |
| Performer Share: | $949,574 | |||
Project Description
This project is using well-established existing technology to improve the standard methods of in-situ stress measurements by including thermally induced borehole breakout technology for measuring the most compressive principal in-situ stress. By running multiple heating tests in a borehole and correlating different applied temperatures (thermal stress) to breakout measurements, the understanding of local variability at the wellbore can be improved while reducing uncertainty.
Project Benefits
The project will increase understanding of the geomechanical impacts of carbon dioxide (CO2) storage and reduce the risks associated with those impacts. The heating tool technology is a cost-competitive solution that can be readily incorporated with common hydraulic fracturing equipment and other standard downhole tooling (e.g., sonic logs and televiewers) to greatly improve the resolution over the existing state-of-the art technology. This project will increase the ability to consistently measure the maximum horizontal in-situ stress in a borehole, which is essential to evaluate the potential for injection-induced geomechanical risks to ensure safe short- and long-term storage of CO2.
Presentations, Papers, and Publications
- Development of Thermal Breakout Technology for Determining In Situ Stress (Aug 2022)
Presented by Sam Voegeli, RESPEC Company, LLC, 2022 Carbon Management Project Review Meeting - Carbon Transport and Storage, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Development of Thermal Breakout Technology for Determining In Situ Stress (Aug 2021)
Presented by Jay Nopola, RESPEC Company, LLC, 2021 Carbon Management and Oil and Gas Research Project Review Meeting - Carbon Storage, Virtual - Development of Thermal Breakout Technology for Determining In Situ Stress (Aug 2019)
Presented by Jay Nopola, RESPEC Company, LLC, 2019 Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage, and Oil and Gas Technologies Integrated Review Meeting - Subsurface Sessions, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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