| Wireless Microsensors System for Monitoring Deep Subsurface Operations |  |  |
Project Information
| Prime Performer: | Battelle Memorial Institute | Location: | Columbus, OH | |
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| Project Duration: | 02/01/2020 - 04/30/2023 | Agreement Number: | FE0031850 | |
| Technology Area: | Advanced Storage | Total Award Value: | $3,051,747 | |
| Key Technology: | Plume Detection and Storage Efficiency | DOE Share: | $2,374,747 | |
| Performer Share: | $677,000 | |||
Project Description
This project is developing a wireless downhole sensor system to monitor parameters for carbon dioxide (CO2) storage. The sensor system will be field tested in two legacy oil & gas wells to validate the technology and demonstrate its applicability to monitor CO2 in the subsurface. The project is designed to leverage the latest in microsensor development and customize wellbore telemetry needs, deployment, and analysis methods to develop a transformative technology directly pertinent to CO2 storage in the subsurface. Key advancements in knowledge and technology generated through this research include a distributed wireless microsensor system, telemetry system to transmit data to surface without cables, customized deployment options, and a customized approach to processing and integrating sensor data to understand CO2 distribution and track CO2 plume movement in the subsurface. Altogether, the project will produce an effective and practical sensor system for CO2 storage applications.
Project Benefits
Deploying this sensor system in a network of legacy oil and gas wells scheduled to be plugged & abandoned can produce a network of real-time monitoring points above CO2 storage zones without the expense of new wells. Such data is critical for accurately tracking/modelling the subsurface movement of the CO2 plume. The proposed sensor system thus targets operators, regulators, and other stakeholders associated with diverse CO2 storage applications. These applications include monitoring at CO2-enhanced oil recovery and commercial-scale deep saline aquifer CO2 injection sites, meeting 45Q monitoring/ reporting/ verification requirements and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Class VI Underground Injection Control requirements for geologic CO2 storage.
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