Bell Creek Project Enhanced Oil Recovery Resulting in Associated CO2 Storage
The PCOR Partnership is studying associated CO2 storage incidental to a commercial enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operation. The PCOR Partnership Phase III project is a collaborative effort with the operator of the Bell Creek oil field, Denbury Onshore LLC, which began in 2010. The project is designed to 1) understand and predict the behavior of CO2 in the reservoir, including how associated storage of CO2 occurs during EOR; 2) validate that CO2 can be effectively contained within oil-bearing sandstone formations; and 3) develop and demonstrate practical, cost-effective monitoring, verification, and accounting techniques that can be adapted into commercially viable strategies for monitoring the performance of both EOR and associated CO2 storage incidental to hydrocarbon recovery. Results to date are discussed.View/Download Document