Baseline MVA at the Bell Creek Combined CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage Project
The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, led by the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), is working with Denbury Onshore LLC (Denbury) to determine the effect of large-scale injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) into a deep clastic reservoir for the purpose of simultaneous CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and the incidental CO2 storage associated with injection at the Bell Creek oil field, which is operated by Denbury. The CO2 will be transported to the field via the 232-mile-long Greencore Pipeline and injected into an oil-bearing sandstone reservoir in the Lower Cretaceous Muddy Formation at a depth of approximately 4500 feet (Hamling and others, 2012).The Muddy Formation within the boundaries of the Bell Creek oil field is characterized by high permeability (150-1175 mD) and high porosity (25%-35%), with reservoir pressures and temperatures that will maintain injected CO2 in a supercritical state and are near conditions required for miscibility of CO2 in the oil. The overlying Upper Cretaceous Mowry Formation shale will provide the primary seal, preventing fluid migration to overlying aquifers andView/Download Document
Event/Meeting Information
Combined IEAGHG Monitoring and Environmental Network Meeting
8/27/2013
Canberra,