In-situ imaging of CO2 flow, storage and entrapment in subsurface aquifers and hydrocarbon
Budsjett
10,56 millionerClimit-finansiering
7.6 MNOK from the Research Council of Norway in addition to funding from industrial partnersProsjektnummer
200032
Partnere
Project responsible: University of Bergen Research partners: Imperial College, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Financial partners: ConocoPhilips, DONG, BPProsjektperiode
2010 – 2013
The objective is experimental analysis of CO2 flow and CO2 storage in porous media. The CO2 saturation will be analysed by dynamic in-situ measurements based on MRI and nuclear tracers. This analysing technique will, combined with modelling and simulation, give new insight into mechanisms for CO2 storage in aquifers, oil reservoirs, and hydrates. The prosject will also provide new knowledge about potential leakage paths from heterogenities and faults.
The main result so far is that it has experimentally been shown that CO2 can be stored thermo-dynamically stable in hydrates. This can be combined with methane production from hydrates, and the advantage is that methane is spontaneously released without any external added energy.