| Title | Monitoring Results after 36 Ktonnes of Deep CO2 Injection at the Aquistore CO2 Storage Site, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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| Author | White, D ; Harris,
K; Roach, L; Roberts, B; Worth, K; Stork, A; Nixon, C; Schmitt, D; Daley, T; Samson, C |
| Source | Energy Procedia vol. 114, 2017 p. 4056-4061, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.1546  Open Access |
| Year | 2017 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20182096 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| Document | book |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Saskatchewan |
| Program | Environmental Geoscience |
| Released | 2017 08 18 |
| Abstract | The Aquistore CO2 Storage Site is located in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. CO2 is injected into a brine-filled sandstone formation at ?3200 m depth immediately above the Precambrian basement.
Sustained injection rates of 400-600 tonnes/day were achieved at the site starting in the fall of 2015 with a total of 88 ktonnes having been injected by the end of September, 2016. Seismic monitoring methods have been employed to track the
subsurface CO2 plume and to record any injection-induced seismicity. Passive seismic monitoring is being conducted using two orthogonal arrays of short-period geophones, 3 broadband seismographs, and an array of downhole geophones. No significant
injection-related seismicity (Mw > -1) has been detected during the first 17 months of CO2 injection. The first post-injection time-lapse 3D seismic surveys (surface and VSP) were conducted at the site in February, 2016. The VSP data were acquired
with a distributed acoustic sensing system using a 2750 m casing-conveyed optical fibre cable in the observation well. 3D seismic modelling of fluid flow simulations in conjunction with seismic repeatability estimates obtained from field data
indicate that the time-lapse VSP should be capable of imaging the CO2 plume after a total injection of ?30 ktonnes. In addition, this first monitor survey tests the ability of surface seismic data acquired with a sparse permanent array to detect or
image the CO2 plume after limited injection. Time-lapse logging is being conducted on a regular basis to provide in situ measurement of the change in seismic velocity associated with changes in CO2 saturation. © 2017 The Authors. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 310648 |
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