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Aggregating pore space ownership for geologic sequestration of CO2Rozsypal, Audrey Marie 15 July 2011 (has links)
The injection operator for a carbon dioxide sequestration project must control the reservoir and associated pore space within the project boundaries to allow for orderly development of the storage facility. A large number of interest owners within a project area is likely to make reaching unanimous agreement among all owners of pore space unlikely, and thus control of the reservoir difficult. In order to facilitate geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide on privately owned land in the United States, or on land for which the minerals or pore space are privately owned, a scheme for aggregating the ownership of pore space is needed. To allow geologic sequestration projects to move forward with less than unanimous consent of interest owners, states can employ various methods of aggregating pore space ownership. This paper examines oil and gas unitization statues and statutes creating groundwater districts to find legislative regimes useful for achieving pore space ownership aggregation. Among the approaches discussed, aggregation of pore space ownership through a unitization model is the most likely choice. Taking that one step further and setting up new unit operating agreements for enhanced oil recovery to serve as a repository for incremental geologic sequestration, and eventual full sequestration activities, provides a firm path toward reducing carbon dioxide emissions while respecting property rights. This paper also compares the few existing pore space aggregation statutes in the United States, which achieve aggregation of pore space ownership through either unitization or eminent domain. The state that appears to be the best equipped to deal with aggregation of pore space ownership is Wyoming. Wyoming has been a leader in developing legislation to deal with pore space ownership before other states. North Dakota and Utah are also very well situated to move forward with carbon sequestration activities. / text
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Evaluation of Deep Geologic Units in Florida for Potential Use in Carbon Dioxide SequestrationRoberts-Ashby, Tina 10 November 2010 (has links)
Concerns about elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2
) and the effect on
global climate have created proposals for the reduction of carbon emissions from large
stationary sources, such as power plants. Carbon dioxide capture and sequestration
(CCS) in deep geologic units is being considered by Florida electric-utilities. Carbon
dioxide-enhanced oil recovery (CO 2
-EOR) is a form of CCS that could offset some of the
costs associated with geologic sequestration. Two potential reservoirs for geologic
sequestration were evaluated in south-central and southern Florida: the Paleocene
Cedar Keys Formation/Upper Cretaceous Lawson Formation (CKLIZ) and the Lower
Cretaceous Sunniland Formation along the Sunniland Trend (Trend). The Trend is a
slightly arcuate band in southwest Florida that is about 233 kilometers long and 32
kilometers wide, and contains oil plays within the Sunniland Formation at depths starting
around 3,414 meters below land surface, which are confined to mound-like structures
made of coarse fossil fragments, mostly rudistids. The Trend commercial oil fields of the
South Florida Basin have an average porosity of 16% within the oil-producing Sunniland
Formation, and collectively have an estimated storage capacity of around 26 million tons
of CO 2
. The Sunniland Formation throughout the entire Trend has an average porosity
of 14% and an estimated storage capacity of about 1.2 billion tons of CO 2 (BtCO2
). The
CKLIZ has an average porosity of 23% and an estimated storage capacity of
approximately 79 BtCO 2
. Porous intervals within the CKLIZ and Sunniland Formation
are laterally homogeneous, and low-permeability layers throughout the units provide
significant vertical heterogeneity. The CKLIZ and Sunniland Formation are considered
potentially suitable for CCS operations because of their geographic locations,
appropriate depths, high porosities, estimated storage capacities, and potentiallyeffective
seals. The Trend oil fields are suitable for CO
2
-EOR in the Sunniland
Formation due to appropriate injected-CO
2
density, uniform intergranular porosity,
suitable API density of formation-oil, sufficient production zones, and adequate
remaining oil-in-place following secondary recovery. In addition to these in-depth
investigations of the CKLIZ and Sunniland Formation, a more-cursory assessment of
deep geologic units throughout the state of Florida, which includes rocks of Paleocene
and Upper Cretaceous age through to rocks of Ordovician age, shows additional units in
Florida that may be suitable for CO
2
-EOR and CCS operations. Furthermore, this study
shows that deep geologic units throughout Florida potentially have the capacity to
sequester billions of tons of CO
2
for hundreds of fossil-fuel-fired power plants. Geologic
sequestration has not yet been conducted in Florida, and its implementation could prove
useful to Florida utility companies, as well as to other energy-utilities in the southeastern
United States.
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Geochemical impact of super-critical C02 injection into the St. Peter Sandstone Formation within the Illinois Basin : implication for storage capability in a carbon dioxide sequestrian systemThomas, Richard Michael January 2014 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Deep injection of waste CO2 and fluids from regional energy plants into the St. Peter Formation of the Illinois Basin, could effectively provide long term deep geologic storage. This research aims to explore the viability of this proposed injection. There are some basic criteria that must be met to effectively store waste in a geologic reservoir.
First, the reservoir must have sufficient porosity and permeability for both injectivity and for migration of the injected fluid through the reservoir. Second, the reservoir must be overlain by some form of impermeable seal or cap layer(s). Third, the reservoir should be sufficiently isolated from interaction with surface and near surface water. Finally, the formation must contain enough storage volume to handle significant amounts of injected material.
Massive sandstone formations that host large saline aquifers have the potential to serve as high capacity storage sites. Much of the research targeting the potential suitability and storage capacity attributes of these formations has been promising, but reproducibility of the results has been less than ideal. Some of this variability has been attributed to petrological differences in the sandstone reservoirs that are not readily evident when studying the target formation over a geographically significant area.
Based on the criteria, a promising candidate for injection and storage is the St. Peter Sandstone of the Illinois Basin. This study investigates the viability of liquefied CO2 storage within the St. Peter Sandstone on a micro scale.
Initial porosity and permeability of the formation plug samples ranged from 16% to 19% and 26 to 981 millidarcies (mD), respectively. The wide difference in permeability is attributed to variations in strength of the cement, in this case quartz overgrowth in the sandstone. This preliminary evidence indicates that the storage capacity of the formation will remain constant or increase depending on injection location, suggesting that the St. Peter Formation will lend itself well to future storage.
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